nzmotorracing.co.nz reports:
Kiwi driver Sloan Cox showed he’s on the right track with his new rallycross endeavours, securing a well-deserved third place at his very first international rallycross event at the Höljes Motorstadion in Sweden on 6 May (CEST).
Cox, from Rotorua, has joined the RX Academy for the 2018 season, taking a new direction away from the New Zealand Rally Championship to focus on the intense, stadium-based motorsport discipline of rallycross, aka RX.
Considering Cox had had just one official test day in his 220 horsepower Renault Clio RS RX car, identical for all eight academy participants, and had never raced on a European rallycross circuit before, the result is all the more significant for the 26-year-old. Click here to read more…
Cox has been rallying for some time now and briefly returned to the NZ Rally Champs last season finishing sixth overall. Not a bad effort considering some of the mechanical issues and disappointments that hit the team in both the Canterbury and NZ Rallies. The highlight was undoubtedly winning the prestigous 2017 Ashley Forest Rally Sprint. A podium at his first international rallycross is well deserved.
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