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rallyx round 2 is live now! they are even using a different jokes lap for this round (different layout from yesterday's race - its a doubleheader)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVoIpPPt6U0
mate i love these FC2 supercars. its a really good generic hatchback car. want to see it rallying sooooo baaad
FC2 Spec, for those like me who hadn't heard of their arrival...
https://omse.se/vehicles/fc2
apparently the number of entries is going to be very low, so fia released the new regulations where they can combine the grids from both european and world championships (racing all together on the qualys/heats) to make it look more healthy.
finals are going to be separated
back in 2014 they had something similar, i dont remember quite exactly how it was. i remember ken block getting P3 on the world championship - and also being crowned as the euroRX round winner... ?
im in.
i mean, the rounds are all the same for both series, just race them all together, jeez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35z8sSGL2mY
rallyx live on the semi finals at valkenswaard right now
I'm sure that Puma costs 3-4 times less than the Rally 1, and will be as spectacular (if not better)...
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ZToJxNSpt/
yes, but its a 2wd car for the norwegean national rallycross championship. i dont know the full specs but i imagine is a super 1600? it must be really cheap, they are building it from scratch themselves!Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
It's definitely 4WD since they built a transmission tunnel inside a stock Puma chassis. Don't know the engine specs tbf. Probably the classic Duratec 2L from the Focus.
No - it's rear wheel drive. Look at the video on the rolling road.Quote:
Originally Posted by macebig
Fair.The transmission tunnel is for the conversion from FWD to RWD.
Euro/WorldRX will be livestreamed again on YouTube WITH ANDREW COLEY back on the booth!! fia listened to the fans! both series will run together in the heats with separated finals, the heats will be based on laptimes again, not finishing order (which is better, cuz you gotta push the whole time for the lap times, not settle when u r in front) awesome. so happy they are going back to those 2013-20 rules.
id LOVE to sit with redbull gmbh promoter and ask "why did you changed all of that? did u really thought your non sense changes would improve the sport? removing coley for a guy who didnt knew the name of the 7 driver competing... Changing the format to stuff none of the drivers understood.. the paywall that wasnt a paywall, it was a "watch free on redbulltv instead of YouTube - but just some fans knew that, so the audience Dropped because u did ZERO PROMOTION on social media telling fans 'just watch on redbulltv"
I dont understand. honesty. but im happy with the recent news! now lets hope for more than 6 entires in wrx (tho euroRX always have 15+, which is great already)
WorldRX was a disaster before the promoter took over. That’s why IMG walked away.
No one was watching it on YouTube before, not sure why it will change this time around….
Are there any teams committed?
RX is more of a niche thing, one cant expect millions of people watching it. if theres more than 50k views (and it had, lets be honest) its already a win (for the size of the sport).Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
IMG left because their plan failed. weirdly they realized too late that "RX is just a niche sport".
their plan was to make the sport avaliable online (eye balls) while making money with fees from f1 track promoters, manufacturers AND a transition to electric cars with FIA support.
but track promoters werent selling thousands of tickets and manufacturers werent getting millions of eyeballs on open livestreams, BECAUSE ITS JUST A NICHE SPORT. so they all left feeling fooled and IMG left on the pandemic for obvious reasons.
I kinda disagree that 'it was a disaster before redbull took over'. In my view its just a small sport that will NOT bring millions of euros to the promoter. not now, not ever. Silly of them to think like that imo.
then my question (last post): if with everything open and with money from VWG, Ford, Peugeot, F1 circuits it didnt worked, how the heck redbull thought they would make it work with everything hidden? its weird to think about.
niclas/klara team confirmed. Hansens said they are IN but no word if its on "world or euroRX". KMS is really quiet.
but the euroRX teams are competing together with the WRX entries, so its going to be a decent number of entries anyway.
The Finals day video at Simola Hillclimb.
LIVE: Simola HillClimb 2025 || King of the Hill - FINALS (INTERRUPTED)
There are two interviews with Johan one of 2 minutes and the other of 13 mins. Sounds like sponsorship is difficult even if you are a 7 time champion.
https://www.youtube.com/live/CANxDZX...HrCeXdNVMcVavE (JK interviews are at 17.50 (2mins) & 1hour 02 (13mins) )
Now unlock all the pre-electric full races on YouTube!!Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
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bakkerud just won on his first race with his newly built Puma in the 2wd norwegean rx championship!
P2 for another known norwegean driver, Thomas Bryntesson, on a 1989 BMW E30 haha
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...35617421118659
gotta love the openess of 2wd racing in rallycross.
CMOON WRC WE LIKE THAT
Great news just in that Euro RX1 2024 Champion Patrick O'Donovan has graduated to World RX in 2025 !
He will be at Lousada for Round 1 with Team RX Racing and hopes to gain further support for the rest of the year.
Andreas Bakkerud in a Hansen World RX Team car is NOT something we thought we'd ever see !
Andreas will be testing all the World RX cars as part of the Equalising of Technologies (EoT), to ensure an even fight between combustion and electric runners.
apparently matt ohman bought a world rx vw kms car.
for rd.1 theres 9 world rx and 9 euro rx entries. they said they would race all together, so thats 18 cars. weird to see the euroRX names are not there for rd.1, even knowing the fees were cheaper this year. gotta wait and see if they are all going to the northern rounds in rallyx
All streaming free on You Tube. Qually today and SF and Finals Sunday:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y49c6Zm...V5r4HOJpjK9XR5
Have the Hansen and KMS cars all lost Red Bull since testing?!
i guess the ex-promoter (redbull gmbh) got really angry with the FIA heheheQuote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
So the EVs dominated Q1 & Q2. Let's see if the ICE cars improve tomorrow.
I hope they've got the BoP correct and not penalised the ICE Cars too much...
bakkerud kept doing laps on the 208 ICE to compare laptimes but eh... tracks with long straights will make the EVs faster.
i would not count with fia removing some ballast from the ICE (or reducing power on the EV's softwares) for tomorrow cuz this is more of a 'track layout' factor than about their general performance per se. if they change stuff for tomorrow, they will have to change it again in holjes, where the ice cars will be faster (no long straights). and then again in kimyring (long straight again), where the evs will be faster and on and on.... anyway, loved watching the heats. Im still on the team "we dont need a world rx, just an euroRX with all those cars", but eh.. happy they are back!
oh, clarification: the wrc promoter (redbull gmbh) was FIRED from its job in the Rallycross championship by the FIA!
i didnt knew that. i thought it was more of a mutual thing?
WorldRX is back with six laps finals!!
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I was a bit disappointed with the format.
I was under the impression that the Euro RX1 cars would now be competing with the World RX cars to increase the numbers. But they were separate and World RX just had the usual suspects (KMS, Hansen's & CE Dealer plus a couple of privateers) facing each other.
The racing was ok but a bit same old, same old.
Will the Hansen's be able to compete at the next event in their home country if Red Bull have pulled all sponsorship?!
The numbers on YouTube are pretty bad - with no TV coverage there is no hiding how little interest in this Championship because the viewing numbers are all public...
Good news from Munnich Motorsport:
"Three successful days of testing in Nyírád are now behind us. We were able to gather valuable data with our newly built Seat Ibiza Supercar and make important progress.
Next up for us are additional test days in Höljes, Sweden, as we continue our preparations ahead of our season debut at the race in Höljes in July."
lol not RX but WTF??
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HVUwav9RM/
lol.. have U never seen Autocross?
its my favorite championship out there tbh. i was expecting grencis to play a little dirt as always but jeeez, both continued! IMPRESSIVE lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Typ85
jeeezz. world/euro championships are in holjes this weekend, and today, kevin hansen's car had a 'red light' after qualy 1.
red light normally means problems with the battery (it can be a glitch too, but better be safe). so the car was put in an isolation... u'know... no one wants another burned tent, eh? ehhh? lydden hill??
but thats not the worst. once the red light appears, the driver cant touch the car structure and the floor (outside the car) at the same time, so you gotta kinda jump out of the car... and in a rush because the car can erupt in fire in case is something more serious with the battery.
i didnt knew that. i mean, its obvious now, physics...
but IMAGINE THAT IN RALLYING... you flip your car.... and then the red light comes in.
WTF man. i know PETROL is also dangerous, i know cars have smaller batteries that can cause some problems too. cars burning in fire is something we see every year in the world motorsport, but jeeeez, 'having to jump out of the car without touching both the structure and the ground' sounded horrifying.
No worries - just give them a fire suit with metal threads in the weave.Quote:
Originally Posted by saco0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmFHAFYwmY
spare batteries on kevin hansen car for today.
loving the broadcast with andrew coley back. they are getting drivers, spotters, team owners on the booth with andrew. they are all 'happy' and joking and slightly bashing on the electric cars (btw... honestly, im having zero 'problems' watching the electrics today. andrew + non spec electric car models make it easy to watch).
Q3 had andrew briefly mentioning about all the rebuilding of the championship behind the scenes. we may have manufacturer interest already, but they 'cant discuss that at the moment'. but eeeh i dont thing we need manufacturers in rx tbf.
Crazy wet conditions today added to the spectacle and we got brilliant races especially in the finals of Euro RX1 and World RX.
Good to see the ICE Cars making the Top 5 in World RX, but they really suffered off the start.in the wet. I still think the BoP isnt quite right and now the EVs have too much advantage.
Ah just seen this...
https://dirtfish.com/rallycross/worl...-equalization/
Hopefully they'll try and make it fairer after Holjes.
open broadcast, andrew having fun, laughing about everything, fun guest on the booth, crazy chaotic races, youngsters showing loads of talent. this finally felt like home. i think the last time fans felt this was in the 2020 season finale.
the redbull gmbh era was bad, honestly. we have rallyx (also open broadcast and with andrew), which is incredible too, but it just felt right for the first time in almost half a decade. at least imo.
and watching the national class was also great. bakkerud's puma should be the direction they should take. i mean, supercars is the top class, period. ev or ice, gimme both. but the feeder class should really be a 2wd with modern production based cars.
they took touring cars from autocross, just throw them back in rallycross ffs! lol
also loving hearing stuff on these supercars. theres so few of these that you can basically count them.
lukas on an old steve arpin omse fiesta, turpeinen on ex ken block msport, enlund on the car who won holjes in 2019,
you can trace all those cars from some years ago, built by omse, msport, gronholms, hansen, abt-ekstrom, kms.
thats so cool.
glad we are back!
Holjes Magic Weekend + Biblical Rain + Andrew Coley + Bakkerud racing & in studio = Rallycross Heaven ! :D
ProDrive's renault megane car is racing this weekend in european rx! (rented by someone, but cool to see the car back on track)!
Q1 live now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1LOPx9GIU
Another win for JK and a disastrous Final for Gronholm was the last thing the Championship needed.
Also POD going out with bad luck in the SF and the Hansens not really competitive were disappointing.
I fear another procession to the title for the KMS man.