Preview of the teams and drivers for Season 2 of the URS World Rally Championship

As the organisation and teams get ready for the first round of the season, here are the teams and drivers that will be competing in this season's first rally all the way down to the last, but first:

Get ready for Season 2 of the URS World Rally Championship as a wave of new and exciting teams storm onto the grid. With the arrival of new teams with a mix of seasoned champions and promising rookies, are ready for the competition that lie ahead. With each team aiming to learn and out developed each other, we're seat for an entertaining development race and constructors championship.

Introducing the teams and drivers:

Super 2000 World Rally Championship / Super 2000 World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry / Production World Rally Championship / Junior World Rally Championship

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Team: BP Red Bull World Rally Team

Car:

- Skoda Fabia S2000

- Ford Fiesta S2000

- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX R4

- Subaru Impreza N15 R4

- VW Golf MKII A7

Drivers:

- Niklas Lappalainen (FIN)

- Jody Cleenwerck (RSA)

- Jacob Matthews (GBR)

- Nikolay Nedelchev (BLG)

- Riva Ratsima (MDS)

- Hugo Raie (EST)

Being formed by a previous client of Praxiteles Racing, Niklas Lappalainen opened his rally team for this season with sponsorship of Red Bull and British Petroleum in three classes straight hoping to win them all despite how many drivers they're hired - three are driving the S2000 cars, two are driving R4 cars and one drives an A7 car.

Newly formed Czech team for the upcoming URS Championship.

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Team name: Four Aces

Category: Super 2000 WRC (SWRC)

Car: Škoda Fabia S2000 Evo 2

Drivers:

GingerBread / Daniel Perníček (CZE)

Falco_Racing / Karel Šejnoha (CZE)

SerifWoody48 / Matěj Vyšata (CZE)

Ddof / Tomáš Jašíček (CZE)

Junior World Rally Championship / Super 2000 World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry

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Team: Aurienses

Cars:

- Peugeot 207 S2000

- Peugeot 306 F2

- Renault Clio Williams A7

Drivers:

- Oscar Clavero (ESP)

- Borja Gonzalez (ESP)

- Manuel Castillia Trujillo (ESP)

Being formed by a well known spanish rally driver Oscar Clavero, who's a Group A7 Champion of JWRC from First Season, he brings more firepower to championship alongside his teammates from Spain, who will driving Clio A7, while Oscar will switching between 306 and 207 trying to be the best in two classes at the same time.

Another new full on out Czech team entering the URS Championship in SWRC Category.

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Name: Molda Racing Team

Category: SWRC

Car: Peugeot 207 S2000

Drivers: 

#22 Petr Molinek jr. (CZE) / Molda22

#46 Petr Molinek sr. (CZE) / Kalimeroxus

#83 Tomáš Valčík (CZE) / ValldaCZ

#27 Stanislav Petrů (CZE) / Standa

Production World Rally Championship / World Rally Championship for Privateers Entry.

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Team: Perseus RallySport

Cars:

- Subaru Impreza WRC 2003 (Lashin)

- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX R4 (Lashin/Golovach/Bezikov)

Drivers:

- Mikhail Lashin - #17 (BLR)

- Alexander Golovach - #89 (RUS)

- Ilia Bezikov - #24 (RUS)

Being formed by previously drivers of swedish-based Praxiteles Racing Team, Perseus RallySport was based in early 2023 when the First Season was ongoing. Looking onto some very bright perfomances of Mikhail last season, where he was just 11th in WRC-class losing only 4 points to Libor Tomecek, he leads this team and he will be sure that PWRC can be won by them.

Super 2000 World Rally Championship / Super 2000 World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry.

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Team: GRB ESports

Car:

- Peugeot 207 S2000

Drivers:

- Marco "Marcuspia" Piardi (ITA)

- Diego "Reppo" Reboldi (ITA)

Running for the fourth season in a row in history of Unusual Racing Series, champions of Inaugural Season and First Season in WRC-P Cup along their success in British Rally Championship, Gruppo Rallomano Bresciani will run for SWRC-P this season pretty much pretending to win this championship in teams and score their fourth titile in history of URS.

World Rally Championship / World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry / Super 2000 World Rally Championship / Super 2000 World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry.

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Teams:

- Praxiteles Harlequin (WRC-P)

- Praxiteles Clientele (WRC-P)

- Praxiteles Abarth (SWRC-P)

- Praxiteles Skoda (SWRC-P)

Cars:

- Citroen C4 WRC 2008 (Harlequin)

- Skoda Fabia WRC 2005 (Harlequin)

- Ford Focus RS WRC 2006 (Clientele)

- Abarth Grande Punto S2000 (PRX Abarth)

- Skoda Fabia S2000 (PRX Skoda)

Drivers:

- Mattias Barrett (SWE) - Harlequin/Abarth

- Kacper Biernacki (POL) - Harlequin/Abarth

- Martin Vrabec (CZE) - Harlequin

- Caspar Vaerand (EST) - Harlequin

- Mehta Ayeeet (IND) - Clientele

- Jody Cleenwerck (RSA) - Clientele

- Ross Ryan (IRE) - PRX Skoda

Running for a second season in a row, one of the most successful Private Teams comes back with updated lineup of cars and some already in use ones - as well it comes to drivers. Praxiteles now definitely being split to main team and to client-base team, in which drives two respectful drivers - as BP Red Bull co-founder Jody Cleenwerck who runs a partial campaign in WRC this season, and as well one of the best WRC-P drivers of last season in the name of Mehta Ayeeet. While founder of the PRX, Mattias Barrett, will run a partial WRC-campaign too, he wouldn't be alone in his journey - he also will run some rallies along with another respectful person on RSF - Kacper Biernacki himself, an organiser of American Rally Championship!

What comes to new drivers is that we meet Martin Vrabec, proved to be good Czech rally driver, who also runs his career in real life, will drive a full season, while in the seat of Signature Car of Second Season will jump in Irish Ross Ryan, who proved to be fast on some URS events and in ongoing VM x URS Sprint Cup.

"With all of this great power we will try to win most as we can." — Barrett

 Super 2000 World Rally Championship / Super 2000 World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry / Production World Rally Championship.

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Teams:

- RallyDiaries SWRC Team - run by Bratsos

- RallyDiaries PWRC Team - run by Giovos

Cars:

- Peugeot 207 S2000

- Skoda Fabia S2000

- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX R4

Drivers:

SWRC - 

- George Bratsos (GRC)

- Theodore Kapourniotis (GRC)

- Dimitris Amaxopoulos (GRC)

- Kostas Papadopoulos (GRC)

PWRC -

- Akis Giovos (GRC)

- George Mallis (GRC)

- Antonis Paparinopoulos (GRC)

Being run by a Greek community, George Bratsos from RallyDiaries Championship broughts his collegium from his championship - names as Theodore Kapourniotis and Akis Giovos are very well known in RSF community. Expectations from greek drivers are obviously high and their level of preparation for championship judging by cars looks real high. Let's see how it goes in just one day before the start of Second Season.

World Rally Championship / World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry / Super 2000 World Rally Championship / Super 2000 World Rally Cup for Privateers Entry / Production World Rally Championship.

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Team: Mad Crew Rally

Cars:

- Subaru Impreza WRC 2003

- Peugeot 207 S2000

- Subaru Impreza N15 R4

- Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX R4

Drivers:

- Igor Gromov (MOL)

- Ruslan Titarenko (RUS)

- Alexander Bezkrovnyi (UKR)

- Anton Petrov (RUS)

Being formed around three years since 2020, Mad Crew Rally proved their excellent level of competition and preparing for them in russian rallying championships based on mostly DiRT Rally 2.0, but in season 2022 they also tried RSF RBR and they did it with success. Unusual Racing Series is one of those series where they trying to show worldwide what they can do, and they always will do it in style.