Irish Rallycross team PFCRX and double FIA European Rallycross TouringCar Champion Derek Tohill qualified for the semi-finals in the ultra-competitive Euro RX Supercar category for the fifth consecutive time in 2017, at the season finale in Latvia.

The result, combined with a season of solid pace and consistently strong finishes, netted the reigning Irish Rallycross Champions seventh overall in the series, the best result ever for the team in the Euro RX Supercar Championship.

Having made the final (top six drivers) in two of the previous four rounds, in Spain and France, the team produced its strongest performance of the year at the circuit on the outskirts of Latvia’s capital city, Riga. Despite constantly changing wet and dry conditions, Derek ended the first day seventh overall, and finished a best-ever fourth in Q3 on Sunday morning, in challenging conditions for the 28-car field. Making it into semi-final two, Derek Tohill ran second in the opening stages and looked set for a second-row start in the final, until a suspension component broke on landing over the circuit’s biggest jump, causing significant damage to the car and forcing retirement.

PFCRX plans to continue development into the winter period, including competing in the final two rounds of the Irish Rallycross Championship, in a bid to continue its progression up the order with the Fiesta Supercar in the European Championship in 2018.

Derek commented. “This seasons been mission complete really. We wanted to be in the semi-finals last year and the finals this season, and made the semi-finals every time and the final in two rounds. We had the pace to be in the final in the other three rounds too, but like in Latvia this weekend, we just didn’t have that bit of luck. We’ve been comfortably inside the top ten, and consistently in the top six, so the focus is for sure on getting podiums next year.”