World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

[MrJan]

And I fear that the new round could replace a traditional one.... Montalegre, Buxtehude...??? Does anybody knows which events have no contract for next year yet? I wouldn´t miss Canada and Argentina to be honest...

That's my worry too. Canada and Argentina will most likely stay as add to the 'world' status by being different continents. I'd like to see one of the part-time courses being given the boot, like Hockenheim or Barcelona. Hockenheim makes most sense as there is already another round in Germany. However my worry is that they'll want to continue riding on the coat tails of the DTM and will drop Estering instead

[AndyRAC]

I think the problem is its not really a 'World' sport - yet they've been given a World Championship. In all honesty its basically a North European/ Scandinavian sport. Maybe they should accept that, and just run as either a European series, or as a World Cup series. Go to countries were the sport is based. But what promoter would do that?

[Moriarty]

LatviaRX timetable

Saturday, October 1
08:00 Doors open to public
09:00 Open practice All classes
12:00 RX Qualifying 1
14:00 Monster Energy Rig Riot
14:30 RX Qualifying 2
16:00 RX Qualifying 3 TouringCar and RX Lites
17:30 Autograph session in Fanzone
18:00 World RX Press Conference

Sunday, October 2
08:00 Doors open to public
08:30 WRX Warm Up
09:30 WRX Qualifying 3
RX Lites & TouringCar Qualifying 4
11:45 WRX Qualifying 4
12:45 RX Lites Semi Finals
13:00 Monster Energy Rig Riot
14:00 TouringCar Semi Finals
EuroRX Supercar Semi Final
TouringCar Final
14:45 RX Lites Final
15:00 WRX Supercar Semi Finals
EuroRX Supercar Final
WRX Supercar Final
15:50 WRX Podium Presentation
16:00 Track closed

Saturday 12:00 & 14:30 is mixed qualifying for all classes, isn't it?

[Fast Eddie WRC]

‏@JRM_WorldRX
Ladies and gentlemen, your Q2 race winner @GuyWilks! Great result @LatviaRX

[BleAivano]

Apparently Petter have been black flagged (DSQ) in Q2 for hitting Mattias Ekström and Ekström received a warning.
http://media.imgukaa3.dyndns.info/re...s_LVA_2016.pdf

Current results: http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/result/lva/2016 ME is 8th on 70 points, Solberg is second to last with 39 points.

[KKSF]

Cause of P.Solberg Q2 disqualification:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnehAlAzbQ

[Alpha]

That's bullshit.

[Simmi]

Cause of P.Solberg Q2 disqualification:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnehAlAzbQ

Pretty sad when a move that would be praised in BTCC gets you DQ'd in RallyCross.

[BleAivano]

That's bullshit.

I am very biased of course but it is not a clean pass. If you pause it at 11 seconds you can see that Petter just drives straight into the side of Ekström's car.
Ekström have already closed to the door when Petter attempts to pass. The result is that Petter slams into the side of Ekström. Petter was too late and too desperate.
Sure a little contact should be ok but when a driver is coming from behind he/she should not be allowed to drive straight into the car(s) in front.

This is RX, not the demolition derby.

[Alpha]

Eriksson wasn't able to hold his line and ran wide on the exit. Petter could have waited another 0,5 second and passed more cleanly but at 100kph that's hard to do. I've seen a LOT worse in RX without penalties. Like just about every time Timur is near Petter.