Anton Marklund has signed for Mattias Ekstrom‘s EKS squad to compete in the 2015 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy, leaving his family run Marklund Motorsport team.
The young Swedish Rallycross star will join team principal and driver Ekstrom in one of the teams Audi S1 RX Quattro’s that proved to be so competitive during the 2014 season. Marklund will also take part in the new Audi TT-Cup, a six round one make series supporting the DTM this year. Ekstrom himself has confirmed he will race for Audi in the DTM this year as well as contesting non-clashing WorldRX events.
The Audi S1 RX Quattro proved to be fast out of the box last year with Ekstrom winning his home SwedenRX event and finishing second to Petter Solberg by five thousands of a second at the memorable GermanyRX event.
“This is an amazing opportunity that Mattias and EKS are giving to me, both to score top results in 2015 and to develop on all levels for my future career,” explained Marklund who finished sixth in last year’s World RX driver standings. “Mattias has been a friend of mine since 2013, when we competed together in X Games Munich. He has helped me a lot already in my career and I’m really glad that I now will join the EKS family.”
Marklund has been with his family run team for some time and won the European Rallycross title in the Touring Car category in 2012, before the team moved up to a single entry Volkswagen Polo WRX Supercar in the 2013 FIA European Rallycross Championship and in last years World Championship.Marklund scored a podium finish in the first ever CanadaRX event.
Norwegian Rallycross and Touring car legend Tommy Rustad confirmed last year that he will be contesting the 2015 EuroRX in a Marklund Motorsport built VW Polo Supercar. Marklund Motorsport have also confirmed that they will reveal their 2015 driver lineup in the coming weeks.
