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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 #90 JUly 2011 The present and the WORLD future go head-to-head This issue is finished in the couple of days between the Marc Laboulle and Davy Jeanney have demonstrated the Norwegian and Swedish rounds of the European Rallycross potential of the transverse configuration. Engineers involved Championship. While the season is shaping up to be a great agree that the DS3 is a far superior base for the concept than one: four Supercar winners in four rounds and a handful of the C4. As Hansen gets race miles on the new car we will see How to get Rallycross World points between the top six in the series; Super1600 suddenly if these predictions are right. If they are, you are watching Rallycross World is produced monthly and distributed as a pdf document more open than we had expected and with a surprise new something that will change the face of the sport and bring You can subscribe directly or receive it as a subscription benefit at RallycrossWorld.com star waltzing on to the scene; Lars Øivind Enerberg seemingly about a whole new breed of Supercar. We also now offer a method for you to buy a printed copy or iPad version via MagCloud invincible in TouringCar – right now we also have an eye to the future. World wide print service and iPad magazine This week Kenneth Hansen Motorsport has put the first laps The MagCloud print-on-demand service now delivers on it’s new DS3 Supercar. A new model is always good. Having anywhere in the world. You can order a printed magazine to be Hansen back behind the wheel will add further spice to the delivered to your door simply by clicking the link on the left or Subscribe Get it free! Printed magazine iPad series. But it’s the technical aspect of the DS3 which is most from the back page. MagCloud also makes Rallycross World A direct subscription RallycrossWorld. MagCloud is a print You can download important, if the car is as good as Hansen says it is, and he available for iPad. Just look for the free MagCloud app in the to Rallycross World com is the essential on demand service Rallycross World to thinks it is going to be better than anything he has ever driven iPad App Store and then select Rallycross World from the cost €50 per year (12 Rallycross news that means you can your iPad through the before, this is the beginning of a new era. MagCloud magazine store. issues). website. As well order a printed copy free MagCloud app. Visit myriorama.com as enjoying all the of the magazine that This gives you the and follow the links feature of the site, will be delivered Mag Cloud magazine to Rallycross World to registered users can anywhere in the store, from where subscribe online. download their copy world. you can search for of the magazine for Rallycross World free within the app. RallycrossWorld.com RallycrossWorld.com MagCloud.com App store Contents Click it! Copyright Advertisements in the pdf Rallycross World is published monthly by Myriorama 5 Top Story version of Rallycross Ltd. This publication may not be redistributed, copied or World are interactive – click reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the written 7 Diary Gallery on them to be taken to the consent of the copyright holder. advertiser’s website. Unless otherwise stated, all text and photographs are © copyright 13 Diary June Check the whole advert as Tim Whittington 2011. some have multiple links – and [email protected] 18 The Irish masterplan you wouldn’t want to miss anything, would you? Contributors: 24 Wobbly return in Norway There are also links from Eddi Laumanns, Hal Ridge, Henk de Winter, Johan Dingenen some editorial items and we will This issue published : July 1 30 Shoestring Stories always try to offer a live link Next issue published: August 1 wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com 31 Northern lights address in editorial. [email protected] myriorama 2 | #90 – July 2011 ©RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #90 – July 2011 | 3 Top story Deadline looming FIA puts down time limit for engine proposals SVERRE ISACHSEN Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque European Rallycross Champion 2009 & 2010 Norwegian Rallycross Champion 2010 Rallycross Norden winner 2010 The FIA Off Road Commission President Andy Lasure has This would result in a driver who has qualified fourth being laid down a deadline of August 5 for teams and competitors in reclassified tenth, or last on the B final grid. Those qualified DEREK TOHILL PAT DORAN JULIAN GODFREY Duratec 2.0 – 294bhp, 254Nm torque Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 810Nm torque Duratec 2.0 – 294bhp, 254Nm torque the European Rallycross Championship to make suggestions fifth to tenth would all move up one place. European Rallycross Champion, TouringCar British Rallycross Champion 2009 & 2010 British Rallycross Champion, Supernational or proposals on ways in which the number of engines used in “Most drivers agree we should do something so I have made ERC events can be limited. a proposal. We [the ORC] want to have ideas from the teams, The ORC first made the suggestion during the third round all suggestions will be considered,” said Lasure. of the ERC in France (Rallycross World #89, June 2011). In While his proposal outlines an idea, Lasure accepts that a June’s fourth round of the championship in Norway, Lasure final form of words suitable for regulatory use is a long way off, circulated a written copy of a proposal of his own and “It’s up to the technical people to write the rules and decide informed teams that they should make their own alternative how to control any regulation, how to identify engines. They +44 (0)1435 865999 suggestions before the next technical meeting on August 5. know about these things and there is experience from racing SVERRE ISACHSEN Lasure’s own proposal would allow the use of spare engines, and rallying,” he said. Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque but any team changing an engine during the course of an event A restriction in the use of engines, if introduced, would RACETUNERS.COM Winner, 2011 ERC round one, Great Britain would incur a penalty; Lasure’s proposal suggests a loss of six be applied to all three classes in the European Rallycross places in the positions after the third heat. Championship. RallycrossWorld.COM #90 – July 2011 | 5 Diary gallery Higgins jumps in Rally driver David Higgins took part in his first Rallycross event in the third round of the Global championbship at Pikes Peak. The Subaru Rally Team USA driver gained a lucky second place in the event and will drive his Impreza again in next months X Games in Los Angeles. Lars Gange/Subaru.com/rally RallycrossWorld.COM #90 – July 2011 | 7 Diary gallery Pikes Peak jump bites Borowicz Robert Borowicz was the first victim of the jump at Pike Peak International Raceway in the third round of the Global Rallycross Championship where he spectacularly flipped his Subaru Impreza. Marcus Dodd later also crashed at the jump, putting his Hyundai Veloster out of the event. Greg Greg Drozd RallycrossWorld.COM #90 – July 2011 | 9 Diary gallery The future, now The car that Kenneth Hansen has described as “the best we have ever built,” was given its first laps at Lidköping in Sweden where Hansen conducted the initial test and heaped praise on KHM engineers Kennet Nyberg and Richard Toftgren who have led the
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