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Eddi Laumanns, Hal Ridge, Henk de Winter, Johan Dingenen, Kerry There are also links from Dunlop, Bill Mantovani, CTP 46 Diary gallery some editorial items and we will This issue published : June 1 50 Diary April always try to offer a live link Next issue published: July 1 wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com 54 Shoestring stories address in editorial. [email protected] myriorama 2 | #100 – June 2012 ©RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #100 – June 2012 | 3 Top story JRX car revealed New Junior Cup series to start in Norway The JRX car broke cover in Austria where it was demonstrated and used to give VIP rides during the third round of the ERC. SVERRE ISACHSEN Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque European Rallycross Champion 2009 European Rallycross Champion 2010 European Rallycross Champion 2011 JULIAN GODFREY Duratec 1.6 – 225bhp, 181Nm torque Winner, 2011 Super1600 ERC Belgium The new ‘JRX’ car was officially launched during the third Hansen Motorsport and Set Promotion are the first two +44 (0)1435 865999 round of the European Rallycross Championship at the PS teams to run cars, and will also act as distributors for the cars Racing Center in Austria in late May. and spare parts in Sweden and Finland respectively. Set up to provide a new opportunity for 14 to 18-year- Testing of the car has been carried out by Laboulle. “It’s RACETUNERS.COM old drivers, the Junior Rallycross Cup will use controlled- exactly what I wanted. A good driver will be quick and make specification racecars that are built on a spaceframe chassis. car work with them, and a driver who is learning will feel The cars are powered by a two-cylinder, 140bhp, 600cc engine confident and be able work with the car and develop their and have four-wheel drive transmission featuring a sequential skills. The car wants you to push it. We have designed it so that gearbox. Built in France by Mtechnologies, the cars use a drivers can learn, and also so that mechanics and engineers can composite body that can, by use of graphics, be styled to learn about setting-up a car and how to get the make it work look like any one of a number of current small production well in Rallycross,” said Laboulle. hatchbacks. The series is promoted by Maks events, a company n This month we’ve given over almost the entire magazine JULIAN GODFREY JOS KUYPERS KOEN PAUWELS established for the purpose and which includes Mtechnologies to mark the 100th issue of Rallycross World. A couple of the Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 810Nm torque Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque Duratec 2.0 – 304.7bhp, 256.8Nm torque boss Marc Laboulle and Kenneth Hansen among its four regular features remain, but we’ve moved to the Diary to the British Rallycross Champion 2011 Dutch Rallycross Champion 2011 Belgian Rallycross Champion, TouringCar 2011 partners. Maks events says the first ten cars will be delivered in back, where you will also find the latest from Hal Ridge in the last week of May. Shoestring Stories. RallycrossWorld.COM #100 – June 2012 | 5 100 Rallycross stories Rallycross is… For the 100th issue, 100 things that come to mind when we think about Rallycross Martin Schanche There was never any question of the man not being in the list, but where do you begin, or end, what to include and what to leave out? There are so many achievements, stories, events, tales and legends that you could easily write a book about Martin Schanche. One that always pops up in my memory is a story Schanche told me of his 1984 trip to Pikes Peak Hillclimb. In the middle of a stunning year in the European Rallycross Championship with the Xtrac Escort, Schanche decided to go to America and tackle Pikes Peak. Opting to run in the Open Rally class, the Xtrac was fitted with lights and licence plates before being sent to the States. This was at a time when Schanche still tackled the ERC almost single-handed, towing the Xtrac on a trailer behind a Granada estate car. To economise on transport costs, the car was sent to America with all the spares and tools packed inside it, when he retrieved the car from customs and transport agents in the states, Schanche figured he’d simply drive it to Pikes Peak. Which is where the story really begins. Passing through town on his way, Schanche found himself sitting at traffic lights when Camaro pulled up alongside. “That guy sat there revving his engine and looking across at my funny little European car with all its stickers and advertising. When the lights changed he went racing off and at the next set of lights he was sitting there revving up again and laughing,” explained Schanche.