You may be forgiven for not knowing who the RX Cartel is, but they’re about to become your new favorite motorsport team. This team is unlike any other, Liam Doran and Andreas Bakkerud, are taking motorsports and slamming the face of it into the next generation of sporting idols. Just like when Conor McGregor burst onto the scene in MMA, the RX Cartel is stamping their arrival on the World of Motorsport and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Acid tonged clap-backs, official warnings, creating memes and movies are only part of why the internet loves them and why the rest of the teams, really hate them!
Rallycross, for those who don’t subscribe to the motorsport scene, has been described as the MMA of Motorsport. Half a million-dollar race cars that accelerate faster than F1 cars, duel over four qualification races on the track and the drivers aren’t shy in keeping themselves on the racing line even if that means crunching their extremely expensive carbon or kevlar panels into one another as they bid for victory over a mixed surface circuit that normally includes a decent couple of jumps to sort the men from the boys. However, like many motorsport paddocks, the teams were like bad photocopies of one another – nothing stood out and despite the garish liveries, they all looked much alike.
Liam Doran, a double X-Games Gold Medallist, a cleancut choir boy of 4-wheel, he ain’t! As he has brought some great antics to fans over his career that also included slapping another driver after a race for a maneuver that wasn’t to the pleasing of the RX Cartel founder at the X Games Rallycross race in Germany. He isn’t the jockey cut figure of a lot of racing drivers, but once in a car can show pure brilliance in race craft – hailing from Rallycross Royalty, the door bashing racing was in his DNA. Liam is the marmite of drivers, always pictured with a stern face, aggressive driving style, people often pick up the bad guy image as who he is – but Liam has promised us there is another side.
Andreas Bakkerud, his Norwegian teammate, totally the guy want your daughter to bring home (at least from the first impressions). But this cheeky chappie, fun loving wheelman can also mix it up when he needs to and when it comes to racing he’s more Cartel than clown and has often been in the mix on controversial actions on the track. His record of achievements stars back in 2011 & 2012 where he became back to back European Champion and in 2014 he took the World Team Championships.
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