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WORLDCOM RALLY- CROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD RALLYCROSS WORLD Rallycross Briefing #89 JUNE 2011 More Rallycross World WORLD and another major brand We’re back! After relaunching the RallycrossWorld.com from the back page. MagCloud also makes Rallycross World website (see p5) we had the option of trying to write the whole available for iPad. Just look for the free MagCloud app in the May issue of Rallycross World magazine in about two days iPad App Store and then select Rallycross World from the or skip a month and do the job properly – hopefully you are MagCloud magazine store. How to get Rallycross World enjoying the website and the magazine and will judge that our Rallycross World is produced monthly and distributed as a pdf document decision to do the latter has worked out well. Brand awareness You can subscribe directly or receive it as a subscription benefit at RallycrossWorld.com The magazine will continue alongside the website and the It’s always good to see new sponsors come to Rallycross and for We also now offer a method for you to buy a printed copy or iPad version via MagCloud yearbook, the Rallycross World brand offering a full range of many drivers even quite small amounts from local companies products and bringing you the best coverage of your sport can make the difference between racing and not. Earlier this whether you’re a fan, amateur level racer or a professional year we drew your attention to Best Buy’s backing of British racing or working in international events. driver David Binks and this month we’ve highlighted Monster Energy’s selection of Liam Doran for its first official foray into Subscribe Get it free! Printed magazine iPad World wide print service and iPad magazine Rallycross. Obviously for the drivers these are important, but A direct subscription RallycrossWorld. MagCloud is a print You can download The MagCloud print-on-demand service now delivers for such major brands to come into Rallycross has a positive to Rallycross World com is the essential on demand service Rallycross World to anywhere in the world. You can order a printed magazine to be rub for everyone involved and we must all welcome them with cost €50 per year (12 Rallycross news that means you can your iPad through the delivered to your door simply by clicking the link on the left or open arms. issues). website. As well order a printed copy free MagCloud app. Visit www.myriorama. as enjoying all the of the magazine that This gives you the com and follow the feature of the site, will be delivered Mag Cloud magazine links to Rallycross registered users can anywhere in the store, from where World to subscribe download their copy world. you can search for online. of the magazine for Rallycross World free within the app. Contents 5 Top Story 7 Diary Gallery 13 Diary April & May RallycrossWorld.com RallycrossWorld.com MagCloud.com App store 18 FIA looks at engine limits 24 Monster takes Doran Click it! Copyright 26 New winners in ERC Advertisements in the pdf Rallycross World is published monthly by Myriorama 28 Problems in Portugal & France 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 30 Turbo Beetle for Retro race on them to be taken to the consent of the copyright holder. advertiser’s website. Unless otherwise stated, all text and photographs are © copyright 32 Shoestring Stories Check the whole advert as Tim Whittington 2011. some have multiple links – and [email protected] you wouldn’t want to miss anything, would you? Contributors: There are also links from Eddi Laumanns, Hal Ridge, Henk de Winter, Johan Dingenen some editorial items and we will This issue published : April 1 always try to offer a live link Next issue published: May 1 wherever we quote a website www.myriorama.com address in editorial. [email protected] myriorama 2 | #89 – June 2011 ©RallycrossWorld.COM RallycrossWorld.COM #89 – June 2011 | 3 Top story Available daily Rallycross World mag adds news website SVERRE ISACHSEN Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque European Rallycross Champion 2009 & 2010 Norwegian Rallycross Champion 2010 Rallycross Norden winner 2010 On April 20 the RallycrossWorld.com website was relaunched Rallycross World magazine will continue to be published as a fully featured news service that will compliment the monthly. The magazine will present longer form stories – such DEREK TOHILL PAT DORAN JULIAN GODFREY Duratec 2.0 – 294bhp, 254Nm torque Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 810Nm torque Duratec 2.0 – 294bhp, 254Nm torque monthly magazine and annual yearbook from the Rallycross as this month’s in depth examination of the FIA’s idea to limit European Rallycross Champion, TouringCar British Rallycross Champion 2009 & 2010 British Rallycross Champion, Supernational World stable. the number of engines used in the European championship Owned and operated by writers and photographers Henk – as well as the diary section that reviews the previous month, de Winter and Tim Whittington, RallycrossWorld.com is the review and opinion pieces and Hal Ridge’s popular inside line essential news provider for everyone interested in Rallycross. on the life of a budget racer, ‘Shoestring Stories’. The encyclopaedic knowledge of Eddi Laumanns – the The launch of the website meant that we skipped the May “Rallycross Guru” – is a part of the RallycrossWorld.com mix, issue of the magazine, so this copy has two month’s in the the German writer and photographer monitoring the news and diary as well as an revised design. Rallycross World magazine +44 (0)1435 865999 adding an historical perspective to the in depth coverage. is available for registered users of RallycrossWorld.com to SVERRE ISACHSEN RallycrossWorld.com presents its stories in clearly defined download free and is also available as a printed magazine and Cosworth YB – 543bhp, 920Nm torque sections; feature and short stories categorised with national an iPad version via the MagCloud service. Use the links below RACETUNERS.COM Winner, 2011 ERC round one, Great Britain events grouped separately to aid navigation and provide a site or on page two for more details. that offers unrivalled coverage across all levels of the sport. RallycrossWorld.com MagCloud RallycrossWorld.COM #89 – June 2011 | 5 Diary gallery Monster chooses Doran in Rallycross Monster Energy entered Rallycross in the second round of the 2011 European champion in Portugal where Liam Doran’s Citroën C4 was presented in the black and green of the drink brand. Now a Monster athlete, Doran has worked hard to land the long term deal. » p24 RallycrossWorld.COM #89 – June 2011 | 7 Diary gallery Eriksson is Ford’s Michelin man In Portugal for the second round of the ERC, Andréas Eriksson switched his Ford Fiesta to Michelin tyres. The former rally man has previously expressed his interest in using radials – something he was familiar with in rallying. In France, he gave the tyres a real pounding, smoking all four wheels through the second corner. RallycrossWorld.COM #89 – June 2011 | 9 Diary gallery Harrold breathes new life into turbo Beetle James Harrold has been out testing the PPJ Racing Beetle on an airfield in recent weeks, working up to getting the car race read for August’s Rallycross Retro event at Lydden. The car was last used in anger more than a dozen years ago. » p30 RallycrossWorld.COM #89 – June 2011 | 11 Diary April & May Diary April 2 April 3 April 5 Pavel Koutny takes the wraps off his new Fiesta VII. The Czech Münnich Helmia Motorsport confirms its plans for the 2011 season in » Patrick Van Mechelen adds to his early season win at veteran’s new self-constructed machine is presented in his Motorsport which both of its Renault Clio III Supercars will be used in Maasmechelen by winning at Valkenswaard, the Belgian familiar green and white colour scheme and supersedes the drivers limber up the European Rallycross Championship. Team boss Stig-Olov Subaru driver leading home Jos Kuypers’ new Fiesta and Timur MkVI version that he has used over the last few years. Koutny for the coming Walfridson will continue in his third full ERC campaign while Timerzyanov who had his first competitive run in a KHM plans a programme of selected ERC events in the new car. ERC season by the Swedish team’s second car will be driven by Norwegian Citroën C4.