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This publication may not be redistributed, copied or 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 2012. some have multiple links – and [email protected] Contents you wouldn’t want to miss anything, would you? Contributors: 5 Top Story There are also links from Eddi Laumanns, Hal Ridge, Henk de Winter, Johan Dingenen some editorial items and we will This issue published : October 4 7 Diary Gallery 18 Hansen aims to keep winning always try to offer a live link Next issue published: November 1 wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com 12 Diary August & September 26 Changing class is not easy address in editorial. [email protected] myriorama 2 | #103 – Sep – Oct 2012 ©RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #103 – Sep – Oct 2012 | 3 Top story Promoter for FIA Rallycross World’s biggest sports marketing company chooses Rallycross The September meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport will be introduced for an entry of up to 25 Supercars which Council confirmed that IMG will promote the FIA Rallycross will comprise a mix of permanent drivers, wildcard entries Championship for a period of at least ten years, starting from and national qualifiers. The format means that every driver 2013. will race against every other driver in the heats (with five cars The deal allows the series to grow to World championship on the grid), the best 12 progressing to semi-finals and the top and is IMG’s first the with FIA, Rallycross set to benefit from six to the final. As points scored in every race will count in the the full weight of the sports marketing giant’s expertise. IMG championship, drivers will no longer be able to sit-out a heat is the biggest and oldest company of its kind and combines its and race fans will get to see more racing and their favourites management with TV rights sales in which it is also the market on the track more often. leader. IMG’s success with the Speedway GP series can be Super1600 and TouringCar will have a similar system but the seen as an example of what the company can do for Rallycross; entry will remain more open with no requirement for drivers Speedway was broadcast in 24 countries but is now seen in to commit to race in every championship event. 160 territories around the world, live broadcasts of Speedway As well as offering more to drivers, IMG is contracting GP taken by more than 40 countries and the sport has become events into championship on long-term deals, providing so popular that in Poland last year it was officially a bigger circuits and clubs with the security to plan ahead and invest in spectator sport than football. their venues with the knowledge that they have a major event There are obvious synergies between Speedway and for a fixed period. Rallycross and the adoption of a race format based closely Change is often difficult to accept or understand but is on that used in Speedway for the new FIA Rallycross inevitable and necessary, specially in a market place that is championship is clearly aimed at making the events easier to as crowded and competitive as motor sport. Rallycross has understand for spectators and TV viewers, as well as offering changed in the past and it will, probably, change again in the more racing for drivers and fans. future. The real element of change that IMG will bring is the The FIA Rallycross Championship events will continue to new racing format, but if you look back into the history of be run over two days and will feature all three current classes, Rallycross you will be able to find examples of many different there will be racing for the Super1600, TouringCar and styles of racing being used – even knock-out finals in European Supercar drivers on both days of the events, TouringCar and events. Rallycross is short races on asphalt and gravel, and that Super1600 will also feature in TV coverage of the events. will not change. The Supercar class will be the feature of the Championship events. This is where the ‘round robin’ series of qualifying heats 4 | #103 – Sep – Oct 2012 RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #103 – Sep – Oct 2012 | 5 Diary gallery Up and over The first corner at the Estering has always been a bit of squeeze and a place where there have been incidents. With eight cars to get in there this year there were lots of crashes, including this spectacular tangle between Peter Hedstrom and Pavel Koutny in which the Czech hit the fence and then went over Hedström’s skoda. Henk de Winter Henk RallycrossWorld.COM #103 – Sep – Oct 2012 | 7 Diary gallery Anton makes his mark Anton Marklund drove half the ERC season last year and shwoed great form. He opened his 2012 account with a win on his first visit to Lydden and completed his title campaign by sealing the TouringCar championship in Finland at the end of September.