EKS RX is a Swedish

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team founded by racing driver

Mattias Ekström Bengt Mattias Ekström (born 14 July 1978) is a racing and rally driver from Sweden. He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters for Audi from 2001 until his retirement in 2018, and has been competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship ...

. The team is competing in

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since 2014 and entered the team championship in 2015. In January 2017 it was announced that the team would receive full factory support from

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for the 2017 World Rallycross Championship. The team had previously been run with assistance from Audi Sport's official suppliers. On 29 January 2018, team owner

announced that he would be leaving the DTM series and concentrating on his World RX team. An announcement two days later confirmed that

Andreas Bakkerud Andreas Bakkerud (born 10 October 1991) is a rallycross driver from Bergen, Norway. He has competed in the FIA Rallycross Supercar class since 2013 in both Euro RX and World RX, Nitro Rallycross since 2021, and Extreme E since 2023. He became Euro ...

would be racing for the team in 2018. After the 2018 season on December 10, EKS announced that it would end its rallycross factory program due to Audi pulling the funding. The team did however make a return in

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, now as a privateer, with Hungarian driver Krisztián Szabó. Ekström also competed at Spa-Francorchamps, in a technical partnership with JC Raceteknik. For the

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, Ekström became a full-time driver for KYB Team JC, finishing runner-up with two wins. His teammate

Robin Larsson Robin Christian Zacharias Larsson (born 8 July 1992) is a Swedish racing driver currently competing in Nitrocross. He is the current Nitrocross champion driving for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing JC. He has won the Nitrcross ch ...

ranked 6th in points. The partnership was strengthened for the

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, so the team was rebranded KYB EKS JC. Also in 2021, the team partnered with

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to compete at

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.Foust joins Nitro Rallycross grid with DRR
- 20 September 2021

Racing record

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

References

External links

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EKS Audi Sport news at The Checkered Flag
{{DEFAULTSORT:EKS RX Swedish auto racing teams World Rallycross Championship teams Red Bull sports clubs and teams Auto racing teams established in 2014 World Rally Championship teams