ERC top – or rather a cop?

In an interview with journalist and friend Simen Næss Hagen for ‘Glåmdalen’, his local website, Norwegian Mats Lysen has revealed that he is in desperate need of another €40,000 to secure his 2012 Rallycross programme – or will be forced to quit. The 20-year-old has set himself March 10 as deadline to get his budget together, for the needed 1.4 Million Norwegian Kroner he still lacks 300,000 NKr. “We must be well prepared already yet, so we agreed to take a decision within ten days from now. If the money is not there it will be ‘full stop’ and I need to do something else,” said the 2009 D1A ERC winner.

Lysen is looking forward to join the Norwegian police sooner or later, so entering a Police Academy is his alternative to a further Rallycross or racing career. “This seems to me an interesting profession. I do not know yet about what to do there, but my plan is to apply when the time is ripe,” claims the 2011 Supercar fifth overall. The work on the Renault Clio III he took over from Swede Stig-Olov Walfridsson’s Helmia stables has been finished this week and the 550+bhp Supercar is waiting for more action, but for the Norwegian the question to answer himself is “top or cop?” now…

Like at Maasmechelen in August 2011 Mats Lysen is currently in a state of limbo… © Eddi Laumanns/RallycrossWorld.com