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Global Rallycross Might Be Dead For 2018 As Lawsuits And Unpaid Bill Claims Mount
Global Rallycross Might Be Dead For 2018 As Lawsuits And Unpaid Bill Claims Mount-October 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:11:15

Amidst lawsuits, money owed to venues, a rival racing series coming into the fray and canceled events, America’s main rallycross series for the past seven years could be done for. According to a statement from one of its former venues, Red Bull Global Rallycross is ceasing operations for 2018.

GRC had big plans for 2018, saying back in 2016 that it hoped to by this year. It seems like things have gone in the other direction.

In an emailed statement about its planned 2018 GRC race weekend, New York’s Lancaster National Speedway dropped a big revelation about a series that’s been under threat for a few months now: that “management was informed early Tuesday morning that the Red Bull Global Rallycross organization has ceased operations for the 2018 season and the event scheduled for Lancaster on June 9-10 has been canceled.”

The statement from Lancaster, forwarded along from our friends at , also said GRC will refund anyone who has already bought tickets for the event. starts in the summer, and Lancaster was planned as its first event this year. On the GRC website, the that used to show the 2018 calendar now appears to be .

Jalopnik has reached out to GRC for comment on the track’s statement, and will update this story if we hear back.

The status and future of GRC has been more and more unclear in recent months, especially after the announcement that IMG, promotor of the World Rallycross Championship, would an “Americas Rallycross” series with a four-round season in 2018. Several major GRC and , including Subaru and the championship-dominating Andretti Autosport Volkswagen program, announced they would move to the Americas Rallycross series this year.

Just before that, GRC a major restructuring of its championships that threw out the current top class, Supercars, for a spec-model race car to “tighten up the field” and “highlight the skills of the drivers.”

There’s also a pile of lawsuits involving GRC in various courts, including legal disputes between GRC and a team, venues, vendors and the state of Michigan. reported Monday that state officials are threatening legal action against GRC for what the state claims to be an unpaid nearly $76,000 fee for the series’ race in .

Another entity, Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park in Connecticut, claims it hasn’t been paid either. Thompson CEO Jon Hoenig told Jalopnik’s Stef Schrader that GRC has only paid the track $7,000 of the $36,000 it was owed for a 2017 event, and the $7,000 came months after the race actually happened.

A lawyer for GRC’s case against the aforementioned team whom GRC CEO Colin Dyne directed legal questions to, Michael Avenatti, told Jalopnik that he could not confirm any outstanding debts, saying he’s “not aware one way or the other.” Avenatti also said he couldn’t speak on previous court cases of Dyne or the series being sued for debt or breach of contract.

The most recent updates on GRC’s and its were April 13, in regards to an online rallycross event happening that day. The event was put on using iRacing, a realistic racing simulator that added GRC cars and tracks to its system .

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