“Now we have to search for the perfect alternatives. We is likely to be incorrect, however we consider that it may very well be higher with the EV automobile now, and we could have the end result inside one week or much less if we made the great selection or the dangerous selection!”
Each World RX group is permitted to make one expertise swap all through the season, which means KMS is now locked in with EV for the rest of 2025. It can not revert again to its petrol-powered Polo.
Kristoffersson added: “We can not complain as a result of it’s our personal selection. I imply, if we want to proceed with the ICE we may do it. We don’t cry as a result of it’s as much as us. Now we make a option to do these vehicles and we’ll see.”
Whereas there’ll nonetheless be some ICE vehicles on the grid in Sweden, they’ll purely be privateer efforts from Juha Rytkönen and Patrick O’Donovan. In concept, that ought to quieten the controversy over EoT.
Nevertheless KMS’ feeling is that the present weight distinction between the 2 vehicles (85kg gained for ICE in 2025 and 30kg misplaced for EV) makes EV the plain selection – one it will’ve made for the beginning of the season had the technical rules been printed sooner.
“We’d positively have gone with the EV, it was just too late for us to vary,” Kristoffersson defined.
