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WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLDCOM WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS Rallycross Briefing #95 DECEMBER 2011 Grading system forcing WORLD organisers to improve In this space last month we wrote that organisers cannot be complacent. Then it was relative to the publication of the 2012 Website changes ERC calendar and the competition between the 13 willing Our RallycrossWorld.com website has changed and is now organisers to be included in the ten-event schedule. open to all viewers without the need to register. It will continue How to get Rallycross World This month, we might also advise against complacency, but to provide news from all major Rallycross events as well as Rallycross World is produced monthly and distributed as a pdf document in the context of the decision reached by the FIA International rounding up National championships. Click here to go to You can subscribe directly or receive it as a subscription benefit at RallycrossWorld.com Court of Appeal in relation to the case brought before it by RallycrossWorld.com We also now offer a method for you to buy a printed copy or iPad version via MagCloud Tanner Foust and explained further in this issue. It is increasingly clear, or should be, that there is no place World wide print service and iPad magazine to hide and where event organisers may once have been able The MagCloud print-on-demand service now delivers to cruise, they are under ever closer scrutiny at every level. anywhere in the world. You can order a printed magazine to be But competitors should not feel too cocky. A natural effect of delivered to your door simply by clicking the link on the left or Get it free! Printed magazine iPad being more careful of the detail of their own operation, is likely from the back page. MagCloud also makes Rallycross World RallycrossWorld. MagCloud is a print You can download to mean the organisers will expect competitors to follow the available for iPad. Just look for the free MagCloud app in the com is the essential on demand service Rallycross World to regulations to the letter too. Fair’s fair, if rules are to be applied iPad App Store and then select Rallycross World from the Rallycross news that means you can your iPad through the strictly then they will have to apply to all parties. MagCloud magazine store. website. As well order a printed copy free MagCloud app. as enjoying all the of the magazine that This gives you the feature of the site will be delivered Mag Cloud magazine you can download anywhere in the store, from where your own copy of the world. you can search for magazine for free Rallycross World within the app. RallycrossWorld.com MagCloud.com App store Contents 18 Foust wins FIA appeal 5 Top Story 24 Don’t be scared of Super1600 7 Diary Gallery Click it! Copyright 26 Return of the Grand Prix Advertisements in the pdf Rallycross World is published monthly by Myriorama 12 Diary November version of Rallycross Ltd. This publication may not be redistributed, copied or 30 Shoestring stories World are interactive – click reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the written on them to be taken to the consent of the copyright holder. advertiser’s website. Unless otherwise stated, all text and photographs are © copyright Check the whole advert as Tim Whittington 2011. some have multiple links – and [email protected] you wouldn’t want to miss anything, would you? Contributors: There are also links from Eddi Laumanns, Hal Ridge, Henk de Winter, Johan Dingenen some editorial items and we will This issue published : December 1 always try to offer a live link Next issue published: January 5 wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com address in editorial. [email protected] myriorama 2 | #95 – December 2011 ©RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #95 – December 2011 | 3 Top story Super1600 has been part of the European championship since 2003. The BRC will offer Super1600 as a stepping stone from the ‘standard’ classes. SVERRE ISACHSEN Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque European Rallycross Champion 2009 European Rallycross Champion 2010 BRC embraces S1600 European Rallycross Champion 2011 JULIAN GODFREY Duratec 1.6 – 225bhp, 181Nm torque New class offers free entries and a chance to progress Winner, 2011 Super1600 ERC Belgium +44 (0)1435 865999 The MSA British Rallycross Championship will feature a class Sponsorship revenue for the class will be returned to the for Super1600 cars for the first time in 2012. Super1600 competitors by way of a free entry for events in the Nominally the European championship’s front-drive, 1600cc 2012 championship, something that should make a move to the RACETUNERS.COM class has been accommodated in the British series for several category an attractive proposition. years as the Supernational category expressly permits their Championship organisers hope that the relatively small use. However, the move to make provision for a standalone number of Super1600 cars in Britain will encourage class in 2012 is noteworthy as the class structure in the British competitors from lower classes (Hot Hatch, BMW MINI and championship has not previously been aligned in this manner, Swift Sport) to convert and develop their existing cars and run and has rarely ever taken European categories into the national them in Super1600. series. “Adding Super1600 to the British championship now offers The exact details will be published with championship those with the cars a chance to race at home as well as offering regulations, but the intention is to run Super1600 separately a new channel for drivers who want to move up the ladder. It JULIAN GODFREY JOS KUYPERS KOEN PAUWELS as long as there is ‘a grid’ of them. The size of that ‘grid’ has should not be necessary to build a new car, competitors can Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 810Nm torque Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque Duratec 2.0 – 304.7bhp, 256.8Nm torque not yet been defined, but it may conceivably be as small take what they’ve got and develop it over a period of time,” said British Rallycross Champion 2011 Dutch Rallycross Champion 2011 Belgian Rallycross Champion, TouringCar 2011 as five cars; the size of a qualifying heat grid at European a championship spokesman. championship level. » Don’t be scared of Super1600, p22 RallycrossWorld.COM #95 – December 2011 | 5 Diary gallery Let’s dance! Backstage at the Solberg Extreme Motorshow in Oslo, Jan Tore Brustad caught European rallycross Champion Andreas Bakkerud (back to camera) and IRC champion Andreas Mikkelsen having a quick waltz. No, we don’t know either. It must be something to do with those long dark Scandinavian nights… Jan Tore Brustad Jan Tore RallycrossWorld.COM #95 – December 2011 | 7 Diary gallery Take a look at this With 25,000 fans drawn to the Eurocircuit to see RTL’s Dakar rally pre-prologue event, the circuit took the opportunity to stage a Rallycross demonstration event and put the sport on show in front of many spectators who have never seen it before. Next year’s ERC round was publicised during the event. Hilbert Hilbert de Winter RallycrossWorld.COM #95 – December 2011 | 9 Diary gallery Smoking! Andreas Steffen has put himself in pole position for the 2012 German championship by replacing his ageing Peugeot 206 with Rolf Volland’s Skoda Fabia. Steffen, also chairman of German ERC organiser the ACN, has pulled off the deal with new sponsor Red Kiwi, a maker of e-cigarettes.