The Montalegre circuit will host the first stage of a new European rallycross Championship, the RallyX Euro League, a new international series that starts in Portugal on March 29 and 30, 2025, it has been announced.
“Having already hosted the first ever event of the world Rallycross Championship,in 2014,the Montalegre International Circuit will inaugurate a new and breathtaking competition of an international nature,the RallyX Euro League,which starts in Portugal,in March 29 and 30. next year”, the organization announced in a statement.
The new European Championship follows the “successful formula” of the Nordic rallycross Championship, whose concept will be extended to the south of Europe and will include two new competitions, RallyX South, with eight events in four countries, including Portugal, and the RallyX Euro League, “bringing together the four races in southern Europe and the four RallyX North races”.
“in total, the new european competition will have 16 races on eight tracks, in a two-day format each weekend, one race on Saturday and another on Sunday”, says the same note.
The Portuguese race organization, led by the municipality of Montalegre and the Clube Automóvel de Vila Real, expects to recieve “around a hundred machines and categories with four-wheeled cars, including gasoline ‘supercars’, two-wheel drive cars . and kartcross”.
Without a regular World Rallycross stage on the 2025 calendar at the Barrosã track, the organization said that “the possibility is open [de o Mundial] RallyX Global League will be able to travel to Montalegre, with machines and drivers coming from the North American championship.”
The International Automobile federation (FIA) announced in September that the Lousada circuit (Porto) will host a stage of the World Rallycross Championship over the next three years.
The event, scheduled for the weekend of May 2-4, 2025, marks the return of the sport 17 years after the race circuit hosted the sport’s then-european Championship, which gave rise to the World Cup .
– European Rallycrosse Calendar (RallyX Euro League):
29-30 March: Portugal (Montalegre)
April 5-6: To be announced
26-27 April: The Netherlands (Valkenswaard)
May 9-10: Latvia (Riga)
June 28-29: Sweden (Elvsbyn)
2-3 August: Denmark (Nysum)
9-10 August: Germany (Buxtehude)
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