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Monster Energy would be the presenting sponsor. There were, of course, lots of warm words about the sport RallycrossWorld.com How to get Rallycross World from both parties but no-one should underestimate what RallycrossWorld.com provides news from all major Rallycross Rallycross World is produced monthly and distributed as a pdf document Monster Energy can bring to the championship. The old events as well as rounding up National championships. Click You can subscribe directly or receive it as a subscription benefit at RallycrossWorld.com fashioned kind of sponsorship of just slapping its name on the here to go to RallycrossWorld.com We also now offer a method for you to buy a printed copy or iPad version via MagCloud events and sitting back is not the Monster style and Rallycross will benefit in entirely new ways as the energy drink brand World wide print service and iPad magazine does its stuff. The MagCloud print-on-demand service now delivers As well as detailing a sponsor for the series, IMG revealed anywhere in the world. You can order a printed magazine to be the ten-event calendar for the 2013 season. As promised, the delivered to your door simply by clicking the link on the left or Get it free! Printed magazine iPad calendar does not vary enormously from what we have seen in from the back page. MagCloud also makes Rallycross World RallycrossWorld. MagCloud is a print You can download recent years, the greatest difference being the absence of events available for iPad. Just look for the free MagCloud app in the com is the essential on demand service Rallycross World to in Belgium and Holland where organisers decided that they did iPad App Store and then select Rallycross World from the Rallycross news that means you can your iPad through the want to apply for events in 2013. 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 Click it! Copyright Advertisements in the pdf Rallycross World is published monthly by Myriorama 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 Contents on them to be taken to the consent of the copyright holder. advertiser’s website. Unless otherwise stated, all text and photographs are © copyright 5 Top Story Check the whole advert as Tim Whittington 2012. some have multiple links – and [email protected] 7 Diary Gallery you wouldn’t want to miss anything, would you? Contributors: 12 Diary October There are also links from Hal Ridge, Henk de Winter, Johan Dingenen 18 European championship review: some editorial items and we will This issue published : November 1 always try to offer a live link Next issue published: December 1 Part one, Supercar wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com address in editorial. [email protected] myriorama Banks Tom 2 | #104 – November 2012 ©RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #104 – November 2012 | 3 Top story The 2013 FIA Rallycross Championship was launched on October 26 when newly appointed championship promoter IMG announced that Monster Energy would be the presenting Monster energises Rallycross sponsor for the ten-event series. The move signifies a considerable increase in Monster Energy’s involvement in Rallycross which begun with its IMG reveals Monster Energy as sposnor for FIA championship backing of British racer Liam Doran in 2011 and included title sponsorship of the British ERC round and British Rallycross championship this year. “Being a part of this championship from the beginning is a great opportunity for us, we look forward to working with IMG to grow this fantastic sport … and to getting involved with Rallycross fans next year,” said Monster Energy’s marketing direct Jamal Benmiloud. IMG’s Martin Anayi said, “Rallycross has the components to be the perfect 21st century motor sport; it’s short, sharp, full of action and has some great personalities. We need to keep those core elements that make rallycross so special but repackage it and present it to an audience that has not yet discovered how great it is.” The launch, held in conjunction with the Gymkhana Grid event at Santa Pod, also revealed the championship calendar, the only real surprise in which is the return to the series of an Irish event. Mondello Park has been moving towards bidding for an event over the last 18-months but pushed ahead faster once it became clear that IMG would promote the series. The remaining nine events are drawn from the pool of 13 that have appeared in the series over the last few years, includes the ‘big three’ venues of Lydden Hill, Höljes and Lohéac as cornerstones as well as the traditional season closer at Buxtehude in Germany. Notably absent from the calendar are events in Holland and Belgium, the organiser in each country deciding not to apply to host an event in 2013. Promoter of the Finnish event, Pekka Mustakallio, came out firmly in favour of the revised championship. “I have been through this with the national championship in Finland. It was nearly dead when my company took it over. Some organisers did not believe there was anything wrong and did want us, but made the championship successful again. I’m totally in favour of IMG, it’s the only way for the FIA championship to survive in the future,” he said. The launch event featured the first public appearance of the new VW Polo Supercar built for 2012 TouringCar champion Anton Marklund. The 21-year-old Swede presented his new car in the championship’s new ‘RX’ branding. “It’s great for me that the championship will have a promoter just as I will move to Supercar,” said Marklund, “Everyone in Rallycross believes the sport should be bigger and IMG has great plans. Making it easier for fans to understand is good because as it is now it’s very difficult to follow.” The sport’s most successful racer, turned championship winning team owner, Kenneth Hansen said the move to have a promoter in the series was crucial. “The sport cannot change without this kind of arrangement and if it does not become a professional sport it will fade away. I am convinced that IMG will make Rallycross famous again, it hasn’t really started yet Tom Banks Tom and already it has a sponsor for the championship!” he said. 4 | #104 – November 2012 RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #104 – November 2012 | 5 Diary gallery Looking mean Anton Marklund took his new VW Polo Supercar to the launch of the FIA Rallycross Championship. Presenting the car in the series branding, Marklund said seeing the car in black made it look mean. “It was white when we built it and was going to be white, but it looks tough like this, so perhaps I have to think about that,” he said. Tom Banks Tom RallycrossWorld.COM #104 – November 2012 | 7 Diary gallery Car of the year As Retro Rallycross continues to get a grip in Britain, Marc Griffin quickly won a number of fans with his flamboyant handling of this Fiesta. Dressed to look like the Haynes Group Two Fiesta of 1981, Griffin’s car is a beautifully engineered rear-wheel drive hybrid that fits the Retro ethos perfectly.