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Hyundai Motor America and Rhys Millen can continue their partnership into the 2012 world RallyCross season that starts on could twenty six in Charlotte, N.C. He'll come back to drive the hopped-up Veloster hatchback in all seven races, as well as 2 at ESPN's Summer X Games.
“I'm thrilled to represent Hyundai and also the Veloster within the GRC series for a second season,” Millen said. “The RMR Veloster demonstrates simply how spectacular the assembly Hyundai Veloster is for everyday enthusiasts. GRC fans get to expertise rallycross versions of cheap, fun-to-drive cars exploited to their full race potential.”
Hyundai is that the lead sponsor for Rhys Millen's entry. the opposite Veloster within the series is driven by Stephan Verdier, who is sponsored by Disney XD. Millen has success in several types of racing, as well as victories in RallyCross, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Formula Drift and alternative series. He additionally showed us a way to do some real workplace drifting.
Millen's race-spec Veloster is tuned up to five hundred hp from its turbocharged four. that is regarding three hundred hp quite the Turbo version we'll see this summer. It additionally options an all-wheel-drive system that you simply will not realize on street-spec Velosters.