No, we’re not handing out free mints, or even offering invitations to the sport of Kings
Instead, Marklund Motorsport has announced that their Volkswagen Polo RX Supercar will also be available to customers as of next year.
A bit like M-Sport in rallying, Marklund is planning to run a satellite team in rallycross alongside the ‘factory’ Volkswagens of Toomas Heikkinen and Anton Marklund next year. These two cars will be driven by customers, using cars to the same specification as those driven by the lead drivers.
Marklund’s head of communications Atte Varsta commented: “Our plan is to start competing with two teams and four front line drivers from the first round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship next year. We have planned the infrastructure that we need to put in place for the 2015 season and all enquiries are welcomed.”
This isn’t a completely new departure for Marklund, because as recently as the second round of the World Rallycross Championship in Lydden Hill it ran a third car for Tanner Foust, and the team also runs former Junior World Rally Champion P-G Andersson on the Swedish Rallycross Championship.
But anybody interested had better move fast – it’s always the last two Polos in the packet that always disappear the quickest…