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Way to go Petter, Keep it up!
Photos by Pedro Contente here
http://www.ewrc.cz/images/2014/photo...o_dsc_1003.jpg
Great entry list, really looking forward to this weekend with 38 supercars and a host of top names, including Nelson Piquet Jnr in the Lites...be interesting to see him in a sport where rubbing panels is accepted!
http://media.rallycrossrx.com/docs/L...%20list%20.pdf
Piquet jr. has already done a number of rallycross events in America with reasonable succes.
'Round two of the FIA World Rallycross Championship (Great Britain) will be aired on livestream direct from Lydden Hill via www.rallycrossrx.com/livestream between the hours of 1500-1700 GMT on Sunday 25 May.
Livestream will be available for residents in the UK as a one-off due to a clash with the French Open and the Giro d’Italia on British Eurosport. The full show will be broadcast on British Eurosport at 2230 GMT later that day. '
Great news and a great follow on to the Monaco GP. :)
Ideal, but I really wish I was actually able to go! Instead Sunday is going to be one very lazy afternoon infront of the TV! :)
Rallycross live stream on now ! http://www.rallycrossrx.com/livestream
Supercars SF & Final coming up :crazy:
The world rx will gain some momentum if these teams happen - nissan, vw works, subaru, hyundai.
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...ld-rallycross/
Great weekend, great event and great racing. Amazing how much action can be fitted in (nearly 50 races on Saturday :eek: ) Shame that Liam didn't do better (also a shame that on Saturday I was stood next to the Proctor team who cheered every mistake that he made) and also a pity for Petter because he seemed much quicker but just messed up the final a bit with a poor start and a stupid move on Foust. Interesting that there was a cheer when he ended up in the gravel, it seems that the rallycross fraternity don't like Petter as much as rally fans do. Hugely impressive for Andrew Jordan to step back into the sport and get a podium, especially with such strong competition.
Big shame elsewhere as Pat Doran's RS200 went up in flames and put Pat in hospital (he was back at the track on Sunday though). Fire seemed to be the in thing on the Saturday, with at least 3 other cars (including Heikkenen and Foust) catching alight.
In the other series the RX Lites was won by the amazing Mitchell De Jong, for a 16 year old to win a single make race by over a second is just stunning.
Was great wasn't it, such good viewing.
Liam is so unlikeable that I don't know many who didn't cheer his misfortune. The RX guys seem to be fans of Petter, but they also love crashes and spins and stuff! Think they're also slightly peeved he just turned up and was immediately fastest.
Jordan and Larsson were hugely impressive, both did amazingly well. Zagumenov and De Jong where great too, it's gonna be a good year!
Seems a shame to me that someone who is doing such great things to get the sport recognised is widely disliked, even if he is a bit of a dick. Fair enough he's been privileged to be in the position that he is, but he's a long way from being the slowest driver in the world, something which was clear to anyone with a brain over the weekend.
My gut feel from Petter's spin was that it was more than just a cheer for someone ending up in the gravel, like you say I think that they don't like how quick he is...it was simply amazing how fast he was after he stayed on the line during one of the heats.
I agree - he's proved time and time again he's got the speed to win. But every sport needs a villain and he's the chosen one, and not without good reason.
Possibly, from where I was it seemed mostly excitement at the failed pass, but it's almost unreal how quick he is when he has clean air. Winning heats by 2/3s over only 4 laps is unheard of. It's almost good he's unreliable otherwise the Championship would be a bit dull!
For my collection, and because I don't want to go on a round of Rallycross RX this year, I search a copy of personal pass (Team, Guest, VIP)...
Thanks.
That's true, but I still didn't expect such a big cheer for Petter in the gravel, if anything it meant that what could have been a great battle was over...mind you I've never been one to particularly cheer the misfortune of many drivers, I reserve that for a special few.
Yup, spent the whole weekend getting them mixed up.
official:
Sebastien Ogier VW Polo (Marklund Motorsport)
Loheac France 6-7.9
You are right about Duval! ;)
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Photos from last weekend now uploaded to https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrjany...7644909743512/
Only bother with the camera in practice on the Saturday, so not a huge amount. Amazing to see the suspension travel on the front as cars are putting the power down.
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2940/...fa6bd3b3_c.jpgIMG_2994 by Jan Yeo, on Flickr
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/...4176c1d9_c.jpgIMG_3038 by Jan Yeo, on Flickr
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2931/...72e9defb_c.jpgIMG_3076 by Jan Yeo, on Flickr
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3757/...218a1a88_c.jpgIMG_3073 by Jan Yeo, on Flickr
Petter and Pernilla (spotter) had in my opinion two errors last weekend. One comms error when he forgot to tale the joker, and one in the final, where he should have taken the joker on lap 1 after a poor start.
Tanner Foust is not a bigger star in europe than Petter. He is a whizzard at Gymkhana, and is doing good in WRX, but both are good for the championship!
Entries round three in Norway, 14-15 June.
http://media.rallycrossrx.com/docs/W...%20list%20.pdf
Intresting with Ken Block and Team EKS with Mattias Ekstrom and Pontus Tidemand.
And Hennings Solberg son Oscar in S1600
Does anybody know were you can watch world rallycross online like the whole show that would have been on tv and not just a couple of minutes on YouTube?
Markf, where do you live? If you have an Eurosport Player account, you can watch races live online.
you can try the official rallycross website. http://www.rallycrossrx.com/livestream
what a race meeting this week end. Lot of rain, incredible track in Finland ... great victory for Foust, all depended of the start, and he did it perfectly.
My Photos from RallycrossRX Belgium http://planetemarcus.com/special-liv...m-mettet-2014/
Victory for Heikkinen (VW Polo) in Belgium, Petter Solberg taking the lead in the championship. It is remarcable that Heikkinen is allready sixth different winner this year in six races.
Yes, i am following the championship live thourgh eurosport and livestream this year and i must say it is exciting in a way... but when you see drivers like Ekstrom coming out of nowhere and they sweep the field like they are dead flies it really makes you question the ability of the regular competitors. It is a fun motorsport but that is that. And do not lecture me about ekstrom i am following his career way way back.
Ekstrřm would be among the top drivers regardless of what kind of cars they use.
i think its sad he has used his best years in dtm, but he got well paid i presume.
he could be good in rallying i think. The real sport:)
Petter Solberg showed some good skills driving with the damaged suspension in the Belgium RX final.
Fwiw, Ekstrom would be considered the best performed foreign driver (non- Aus/NZ) in a V8 Supercar at Bathurst, since Yvan Muller had a go in 05. He was one of the notable performance form last year. Not surprising me he's adapted to another series easily.
and gallery photos day2
http://planetemarcus.com/special-liv...m-mettet-2014/
i am not questioning Ekstroms ability, i am questioning the ability of the rallycross drivers... when a tourist visits your sport and makes your top drivers look like garbage roaming dogs then the sport loses all credibility. I doubt Ekstrom would come to WRC in an one off and beat Ogier and Latvala.
That is the reason why i do not take rallyX seriously.
You have a point but when fokus gets on Ekstrom it becomes wrong. He´s not a tourist when it becomes competing in four whell vehicles. Give Ekstrom one full season in WRC and he is top three overall.
I hope you are not serious about this. To find the confidence to push and win in a 6 corner track as the rallycross is one thing, pushing 100% for 300+km of unknown roads is another. It was proven twice in the last years that track guys are not suited for WRC and dont tell me that Ekstrom is 100 times better than Kimi or Kubica