EKS RX explained

EKS Audi Sport
Founded:	2014
Principal:	Mattias Ekström
Current Series:	FIA World Rallycross Championship
Former Series:	FIA European Rallycross Championship
Current Drivers:	1. Johan Kristoffersen 91. Enzo Ide
Driver Titles:	2016 FIA WRX (Mattias Ekström)
Team Titles:	2016 FIA WRX

EKS RX is a Swedish auto racing team founded by racing driver Mattias Ekström. The team is competing in FIA World Rallycross Championship since 2014 and entered the team championship in 2015. In January 2017 it was announced that the team would receive full factory support from Audi Sport for the 2017 World Rallycross Championship. The team had previously been run with assistance from Audi Sport's official suppliers.^[1] On 29 January 2018, team owner Mattias Ekström announced that he would be leaving the DTM series and concentrating on his World RX team.^[2] An announcement two days later confirmed that Andreas Bakkerud would be racing for the team in 2018.^[3]

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 2019, now as a privateer, with Hungarian driver Krisztián Szabó. Ekström also competed at Spa-Francorchamps, in a technical partnership with JC Raceteknik.

For the 2020 FIA World Rallycross Championship, Ekström became a full-time driver for KYB Team JC, finishing runner-up with two wins. His teammate Robin Larsson ranked 6th in points. The partnership was strengthened for the 2021 season, so the team was rebranded KYB EKS JC.^[4] Also in 2021, the team partnered with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing to compete at Nitro Rallycross.^[5]

Racing record

Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	ERX	Points
2014	EKS RX	Audi S1	5	Pontus Tidemand	GBR	NOR 6	BEL 2	GER 4	ITA 6	3rd	50
			10	Mattias Ekström	GBR	NOR 11	BEL	GER 1	ITA	10th	22
			79	Edward Sandström	GBR	NOR	BEL 5	GER	ITA 12	14th	17

Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results

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Supercar

Year	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WRX	Points	Teams	Points
2014	EKS RX	Audi S1	5	Pontus Tidemand	POR	GBR	NOR 13	FIN 13	SWE 10	BEL 5	CAN	FRA 5	GER 4	ITA 13	TUR	ARG		8th	84	N/A	N/A
			10	Mattias Ekström	POR	GBR	NOR 19	FIN	SWE 1	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER 2	ITA	TUR	ARG		11th	55
			79	Edward Sandström	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL 12	CAN	FRA 14	GER	ITA 20	TUR 12	ARG		11th	55
			80	Markus Winkelhock	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN 24	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR	ARG		57th	0
			100	Per-Gunnar Andersson	POR	GBR	NOR	FIN	SWE	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	TUR 13	ARG		37th	8
2015	EKS RX	Audi S1	5	Edward Sandström	POR	HOC 13	BEL	GBR	GER	SWE	CAN	NOR	FRA	BAR	TUR	ITA	ARG	28th	4	5th	258
			10	Mattias Ekström	POR 7	HOC	BEL 6	GBR 2	GER 15	SWE 1	CAN 6	NOR 12	FRA 5	BAR 7	TUR 4	ITA	ARG 2	6th	201
			92	Anton Marklund	POR 17	HOC 20	BEL 7	GBR 14	GER 10	SWE 25		NOR 8	FRA 9	BAR 15	TUR 6	ITA 4	ARG 11	12th	78
		Volkswagen Polo									CAN 14
		Audi S1	177	Andrew Jordan	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	GER	SWE	CAN	NOR	FRA	BAR	TUR	ITA 21	ARG	24th	13
2016	EKS RX	Audi S1	5	Mattias Ekström	POR 7	HOC 1	BEL 1	GBR 1	NOR 3	SWE 6	CAN 8	FRA 7	BAR 1	LAT 2	GER 5	ARG 5		1st	272	1st	422
			57	Toomas Heikkinen	POR 3	HOC 2	BEL 16	GBR 11	NOR 9	SWE 9	CAN 4	FRA 15	BAR 9	LAT 9	GER 9	ARG 3		7th	150
2017	EKS RX	Audi S1	1	Mattias Ekström	BAR 1	POR 1	HOC 1	BEL 4	GBR 5	NOR 4	SWE	CAN 7	FRA 3	LAT 2	GER 1	RSA 3		2nd	255	3rd	380
			15	Reinis Nitišs	BAR 10	POR 5	HOC 12	BEL 13	GBR 16	NOR 10	SWE 18	CAN 16	FRA 12	LAT 11	GER 12	RSA 18		14th	71
			57	Toomas Heikkinen	BAR 8	POR 12	HOC 6	BEL 9	GBR 12	NOR 11	SWE 14	CAN 5	FRA 11	LAT 8	GER 3	RSA 11		7th	125
			45	Per-Gunnar Andersson	BAR	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE 15	CAN	FRA	LAT	GER	RSA		23rd	2	N/A	N/A
			51	Nico Müller	BAR	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA 17	LAT 6	GER	RSA		17th	13
2018	EKS Audi Sport	Audi S1	5	Mattias Ekström	BAR 6	POR 7	BEL 5	GBR 4	NOR 2	SWE 6	CAN 4	FRA 4	LAT 2	USA 5	GER 2	RSA 2		2nd	248	2nd	485
			13	Andreas Bakkerud	BAR 3	POR 4	BEL 6	GBR 2	NOR 6	SWE 2	CAN 7	FRA 2	LAT 8	USA 3	GER 3	RSA 7		3rd	237
			51	Nico Müller	BAR	POR	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA	LAT	USA	GER	RSA		19th	10	N/A	N/A
2019	EKS Audi Sport	Audi S1	40	Mattias Ekström	ABU	BAR	BEL 11	GBR	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA	LAT	RSA				22nd	8	N/A	N/A
	EKS Sport		123	Krisztián Szabó	ABU 4	BAR 12	BEL 12	GBR 5	NOR 12	SWE 17	CAN 10	FRA 9	LAT 10	RSA 9				10th	91

External links

• • EKS Audi Sport news at The Checkered Flag

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ridge. Hal. Works Audi backing for Mattias Ekstrom's World Rallycross defence. Autosport. 11 May 2017. 18 January 2017.
2. News: Mattias Ekström retires from DTM to focus on FIA World RX assault with EKS RX. 2018-01-29. The Checkered Flag. 2018-02-01. en-GB.
3. News: Bakkerud ready to challenge for World RX title with EKS Audi Sport. 2018-01-31. The Checkered Flag. 2018-02-01. en-GB.
4. https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/world-rx/championship/teams-drivers/rx1-teams/kyb-eks-jc-/ KYB EKS JC
5. https://dirtfish.com/rallycross/nitro-rx/foust-joins-nitro-rallycross-grid-with-drr/ Foust joins Nitro Rallycross grid with DRR