World Rallycross Championship a.k.a RALLYX

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Nice victory by Loeb, looks like VW won't be dominating as much as last year. I wonder if this year the driver championship will be won by an actual rallycross driver like Kristoffersson or by former WRC or DTM drivers.

Why is he an "actual rallycross driver"? Before he came to Rallycross he raced touring cars and Porsches on asphalt. He has won the Superstars Series (touring cars), won the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship and the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia.

Yeah, Kristoffersson, Hansen(s) and Bakkerud in the Worlds, Raymond, Nitiss and Marklund in the Euros. So many "has beens" battling for the win...

...an interesting result from Belgium and good news for the Championship with Johan finishing further down the order and the points all closing up. Very dramatic semi-final 2 and final. Timmy Hansen denied another win at Mettet, but still a good weekend for Peugeot. The latest iteration of the 208 looked to have speed in rounds one and two, great to see the car deliver at last, it looks the biggest challenge to the Polo.

Am I the only one starting to go off Ekstrom? For a driver who so frequently preaches about clean racing, that is the second heavy turn one contact he has been involved with this year. I'd have been livid if I was Grosset-Janin.

Yeah, Grosset-Janin made some hand gestures to Ekström that were clear. He was NOT happy. It's strange how Ekström has gone from driving mostly with respect to being the biggest ass out there. He drives like I would expect from Timur or Bakkerud.

Just for the record: have you ever been to a WRC rally?

Btw, with so many ‘forum vigilantes’ around (always picking on wrongly placed posts), I’m amazed why we still have WRX thread in the Rally section. How about to move it to the racing section of the forum once for all?

I followed the WRC religiously for many many years, probably since around 2001. But after 9 years of watching a french guy called Sebastian say "for sure I am happii" without even a hint of a smile and walking away with the trophy on every single race it gets a bit boring. When he was out another guy called Sebastian picked up where he left and kept it boring.
I picked a random race, Corsica 2016. Sebastian won, Thierry was second, 46 seconds behind. Then Andreas Mikkelsen came in over a minute after. Then the rest followed minutes after. Yey.. Minutes, how exciting.. Sebastian could stop for coffee on his way to the podium.

I tried hard, for years, but come on, it really isn't exciting any more. I haven't really paid much attention this year, but a quick glance shows Sebastian winning three out of five races, is in the lead of course, and only four cars are in it.