World RX moves to Finland

With three different winners from the opening three rounds in this year's FIA World Rallycross Championship, the battle to become the first ever World RX Champion is heating up, writes Trish Whelan.

Joining the World RX line-up for the first time this year will be former FIA GT1 World Champion Markus Winkelhock for the EKS RX Team plus American Top Gear presenter Tanner Foust who returns for the second of his four-round World RX campaign.

Eight miles north-east of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, Kouvola is Finland's 10th biggest city and will be home to round four of the season. At just over 1060 metres and split between 58 percent asphalt and 42 percent gravel, the circuit features one jump and a joker section towards the end of the lap. Twenty-five Supercars make up the headline Supercar category in Finland with the TouringCar and Super 1600 categories attracting a further 25 entries.

Currently leading the driver standings, and also the team standings for Ford Olsbergs MSE, is Latvia's Reinis Nitiss, who won in Norway. Three points adrift of him in the overall leaderboard is Norway's Petter 'Hollywood' Solberg who has made it to the final of each round so far. Third in the standings and representing Finland on home skil this weekend will be Volkswagen Marklund's Toomas 'Topi' Heikkinen who will be a firm favourite to win in front of a home crowd.

The full entry list for World RX of Finland can be found at
http://www.rallycrossrx.com/calendar/kouvola/2014