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Rustad to join Munnich motorsport for Germany RX

Outgoing Euro RX champion Tommy Rustad will drive for the Muennich Motorsport team in the 11th round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship at the Estering, alongside Rene Muennich.

Rustad won the FIA European Rallycross Championship last year and also raced for the Muennich Motorsport team at Trois-Rivieres in Canada where he finished fourth in the final. He will drive the team's new-for-2016 Seat Ibiza that was raced until Loheac this season by Latvia's Reinis Nitiss, before Germany's Timo Scheider took over for Barcelona RX last weekend. Scheider will also race the car next week in Latvia.

"I'm very happy to have been asked to do another race with the team," said Rustad, who will complete his 2016 Euro RX season in Latvia next week with Albatec Racing. "I'm jumping into it to try and do my best, to work as well as I can with the car. I don't know yet if I need to change the car to suit my style, or if I need to chance my style to suit the car. I'm just going to my best for the team and hopefully we can get a good result. I'm not really sure what I should expect, because it's a new car. I did a race with them last year without any experience with them and we did very well in Canada."

The Norwegian tested the Ibiza at Loheac after the French round of World RX, and will test again before the German event. "The World Championship is getting more and more professional, and the margin is smaller and smaller. Everything needs to be almost perfect with the car, the team and the driver. When you put everything together in the right direction you can make good results, so I'm looking forward to try to do that."

Team owner Rene Muennich is looking forward to working with Rustad in Germany. "Tommy did a great result last year for us in Canada and I'm happy to have him driving for us at the Estering. We will see what happens there," said Muennich. "He had a short test at Loheac after the race there but not much, so we will test again for him before the Estering. For sure it's good to have a driver with his knowledge and experience in the team."

Zdroj: fiaworldrallycross.com