THE MOTORSPORT LAP:
Hat-trick for rally cross winner
It was all about the World Rally of Canada this past weekend in international motorsport
The World RX (Rally Cross) Championship continues to heat up following the Canada leg in which Johan Kristofferson (Volkswagen RX) showed a clean pair of heels to rivals to emerge victorious at the weekend. Kristoffersson finished first on the podium ahead of rally legend Petter Solberg (Petter Solberg World RX Team) and Sebastien Loeb (Team Peugeot-Hansen). This latest victory was Kristoffersson’s third in a row and the fifth successive win for PSRX Volkswagen Sweden. He now leads the championship with 211 points, followed by Solberg on 176 and Mattias Ekstrom with 158, with four races to go, including the finale in Cape Town in November. It was also the Czech Republic leg of the MotoGP championship, in which the drenched conditions at the start of the race meant a rear wet-tyre strategy was necessary. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) took the chequered flag 20 seconds ahead of Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda). Maverick Vinales (Movistar Yamaha) rounded off the podium. In the Moto2 class, Th...
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