Rallycworld • mondero • welts • världs RallycrossWorld.com Isachsen’s second European championship reviewed Successful ##6894 SEPTEMBERDECEMBER 20102009 first US series The monthly magazine Thefrom monthly the makers magazine of concludes with from the makers of New Jersey double header world • monde • welt • värld #84 Briefing DECEMBER 2010 Rallycross As marked The advantage € by retailer of experience We lead this month with Andreas Bakkerud’s move to Set While others, notably Pauwels Motorsport and Stig-Olov Print magazine now available world wide! Promotion. The Norwegian teenager always was a good Walfridson’s Helmia outfit, are chasing the team model and prospect for success in Europe, but when he went to Set offering Supercar deals, there are not yet any other commercial Changes to the MagCloud service through which we offer Rallycross World as a printed magazine mean Promotion at the end of 2010 the advantage of having an opportunities in TouringCar or Super1600 – although Jaroslav that you can now order a printed copy of Rallycross World to be delivered by post anywhere in the world. experienced team boss overseeing his driving and providing Kalny continues to rent cars here and there in the latter class. Just click the link below, or go to MagCloud.com and search for Rallycross World to get your copy. advice and guidance was immediately obvious. Bakkerud, like Timur Timerzyanov, Liam Doran and Tanner Bakkerud and those around him have been equally quick to Foust, points the way forward in this market. 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RallycrossWorld.com ERC24.com MagCloud.com Click it! Copyright Contents Advertisements in the pdf Rallycross World is published monthly by Tim Whittington. version of Rallycross World are This publication may not be redistributed, copied or reproduced interactive – click on them to in whole or in part in any form without the written consent of the 5 – Top story 14 US success be taken to the advertiser’s copyright holder. website. Unless otherwise stated, all text and photographs are © copyright Bakkerud favourite in 16 ERC review Check the whole advert as Tim Whittington 2010. Super1600 26 Shoestring stories some have multiple links – and [email protected] you wouldn’t want to miss Contributors: anything, would you? Eddi Laumanns, Hal Ridge, Jacques Privat, Jan Kåre Rafoss, Henk de There are also links from Winter, Johan Dingenen 11 Diary, November 2010 some editorial items and we will This issue published : December 1 The latest from championships across the world in our essential round up always try to offer a live link Next issue published: January 3 wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com of news from the last month… address in editorial. [email protected] MYRIORAMA 2 | Rallycross World #84 – DECEMBER 2010 © Rallycross World #84 – DECEMBER 2010 | 3 Bakkerud won the 2010 season finale and has the best car for 2011. Bakkerud Set for ’11 Norwegian is Super1600 title favourite Norwegian teenager Andreas Bakkerud has put himself in our team into this deal which covers the ERC season as well a pole position for the Super1600 category of the 2011 European test in Holland before the championship and events at home Rallycross Championship after signing up to race with title in Bergen and at Lånke where the Norwegian ERC round will winning team Set Promotion. take place,” said Bakkerud. Bakkerud drove in started the 2010 season with his own Bakkerud Motorsport manager Raymond Handeland has team and self-prepared Peugeot 206 but switched to one of Set brokered the deal, “I see it is an advantage to work with a Promotion’s Renault Clio IIs for the last two rounds, winning foreign team; they have complete responsibility for the car and the series finale in the Czech Republic. we will work hard with Andreas as a driver,” he said. Working hard on his plans for the 2011 season, and winning Bakkerud will finish his studies at Torsby’s technical school the Norwegian ASN’s talent development programme and in Sweden and move home to Bergen where he will work full its attendant €40,000 prize, Bakkerud has now secured the time on his motor sport career. prime drive for next year. “We’ve been working on a budget of Set Promotion has won three ERC titles with team boss Jussi almost NOK2 million [€240,000] and have put all the equity of Pinomäki, and the 2010 D1-A crown with Timur Timerzyanov. Rallycross World #84 – DECEMBER 2010 | 5 Diary gallery Pastrana leaves We’d just got used to the idea of Travis Pastrana being a Rallycross driver, when the American star packed his bags and headed off for NASCAR country. Pastrana’s absence leaves a gap next to Dave Mirra at Subaru USA, a seat tipped to be filled by Manxman Mark Higgins, and/or his younger brother David… Lars Gange – subaru.com/rally Rallycross World #84 – DECEMBER 2010 | 7 Diary gallery Stars of the new world On the podium for the final round of the US Rallycross Championship round four winner Toomas Heikkinen is flanked by the stars of the innaugural series; champion Tanner Foust and Englishman Liam Doran. The former enhanced his position as America’s star of the new sport while Doran won an army of new fans. Jan Tore Brustad Jan Tore Rallycross World #84 – DECEMBER 2010 | 9 Diary November 1 and third heats before running away to take a clear A final Bergteamet is to build a Fiesta VII TouringCar that will win ahead of Toomas Heikkinen and Tanner Foust, the latter be driven by Anton Marklund in the Swedish Rallycross having been fastest in the second heat and adding to his tally Championship and, possibly, some ERC events in 2011. The car in the championship. The two-wheel drive category gets its will use an IGM bodyshell similar to that in Derek Tohill’s 2010 third different winner of the series, John Tancredi winning the D2 title winning car. Marklund (18), is the son of Bergteamet event in his Mazda MX5 and leading home round two winner boss Jan and is the first driver to commit to the TouringCar Matthew Johnson and round one victor Josh Wimpey. class that will be recognised within the Supernational class structure in Sweden for the first time next year. November 7 Toomas Heikkinen wins the fourth and final round of the November 3 US Rallycross Championship. Helped a little by Eklund The FIAWorld Motor Sport Council approves the calendar Motorsport’s careful reading of the regulations and its decision for the 2011 European Rallycross Championship (RW #83) to run the Saab 93 on Ethanol, Heikkinen battles with pole as well as rule changes in the series, most notably the change starter Liam Doran (below) in the first few seconds of the A from numerical divisions to descriptive class names. The official announcement stating: “Division 1 will be known as ‘SuperCars’, Division 1A ‘Super1600’, and Division 2 ‘TouringCars’.” » The MSA names former Junior Rallycross competitor Adam Gould as one of its two candidates for the FIA Institute Academy. The scheme allows every ASN to put forward two drivers from which the FIA will select 20 finalists to go forward to the selection event in Austria next February. November 4 Ahead of the third and fourth rounds of the US Rallycross Championship, series promoter Rally Car announces that the first female competitors in its championship. Rally regulars Hall Terry Kristin Chute and Erika Detota are both set to start in the two- final, taking the lead in the first corner and then driving away wheel drive category at New Jersey Motorsports Park. for a clear victory. The first corner incident costs Doran several places, but he fights back to finish third, behind Tanner Foust November 6 who wins the championship in his Ford Fiesta VII. In his last Sverre Isachsen wins the third round of the US Rallycross drive for Subaru, Travis Pastrana gets to the A final via victory Championship.