World Rallycross champion Mattias Ekstrom has welcomed WTCC's plans to introduce joker laps in 2017 - and said more motorsport categories, including F1, should look into the concept. It was announced earlier in the week that the WTCC is set to feature joker laps in its street circuit races at Villa Real and Marrakech next year, pending approval of the concept by the FIA. In FIA's World Rallycross series, joker laps - alternate routes within the track layout - serve to add on a few seconds to the laptime and are to be taken once by each competitor in a given heat. Series champion Ekstrom, who is also a two-time champion of DTM, says the concept makes for a "natural" way to spice...
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