“Go hard – or go home!”
Liam Doran won the Norwegian round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship in Hell, after a fierce battle with Petter Solberg in Heat 3 and a rather poor tenth place in the Intermediate Classification.
Liam Doran won the Norwegian round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship in Hell, after a fierce battle with Petter Solberg in Heat 3 and a rather poor tenth place in the Intermediate Classification.
Yesterday’s Global RallyCross Championship event to feature in the Barcelona X Games programme was cancelled after heavy rainfalls due to an unusable all-loose surface track.
Nine times Rally World Champion Sébastien Loeb will contest the FIA European Rallycross Championship for the first time when he drives in the Rallycross of France at Lohéac on August 31 to September 1.
Before Montalegre, where this weekend Rd2 of RallycrossRX will be run, it was Lousada who hosted for many a year the ERC rounds of Portugal. Here a short review of the inaugural Portuguese European round in 1991.
For at least 30 years some people keep on claiming that the motorsport of Rallycross owes its existence to either a 1963 Rallysprint type event held at the car parks of Brands Hatch Circuit, or to the outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease in the UK – or even to both. All nonsense, Rallycross was born at Lydden Hill, already nine months before the 1967 RAC Rally was cancelled due to FMD.
Hell in Norway is hosting the 400th ERC round in history. Day 1 was clearly dominated by homeboy Petter Solberg who set the fastest times in practice as well as in both, the first and the second qualifying heats.
Round 5 of the FIA European Rallycross Championship is the most special one yet – for Petter ‘Hollywood’ Solberg at least, since it will be run in his native Norway.
Norwegian 16 years old girl Ada Marie Hvaal is set to drive the FIA European Rallycross Championship (RX) rounds in her native Hell and Sweden’s Höljes.
After four rounds and a disappointing start to his RallycrossRX season, former European champion Knut Ove Børseth breaks with team Hedströms Motorsport. Read more »
It could or should have been the day of Petter Solberg, but while leading the all decisive Final by almost 4 seconds the car of “Hollywood” broke after a jump and the Kouvola victory fell prey to Tanner Foust.
Liam Doran, who arrived as the last competitor at Kouvola, is the first of the following order after Saturday’s two qualifying heats, in which the Briton set a fastest and a third fastest time.
The weekend of June 1 and 2 had Rallycross championship rounds of Sweden and France on offer, the Westombanan near Arvika and the Circuit des Tourneix at Châteauroux St.-Maur were the venues.
Ex-Formula 1 driver Mika Salo: “This is just so much fun, I can’t stop smiling. And you never know maybe I’ll be out in a Rallycross event this year, you never know.”
NMK Drammen, the Norwegian organiser of no less than 25 ERC rounds since 1980, informed the press that their track Lyngås Motorbane is due to be closed for good.