FIA WRX 2017

[RallyDriven 398]

Big crash in the first super car race! Couldn't see who it was, one of the fiestas

edot: gronholm with a big roll

[AnegloPlz 10]

breyzipp said:

Any link to a video where I can see the ones from K. Hansen, Jeanney and Munnich then?  Wilks and Nittiss I indeed already found as you said (one Fiesta, one Ibiza),
The one big missing livery is Ken Block's Focus then, kinda sad since it's a different colour scheme than the one from Bakkerud and different colour schemes is always nice.  And I agree that the Focus RS RX liveries (and the car itself) looks great!
Maybe Turn 10 pulled an exclusive one on that livery?  Since the Gymkhana version of Block's car was in Forza Horizon 3 (almost identical livery to his racing livery).  In Project CARS 2 there will also be rallycross (not FIA licence but individual cars and tracks) and they only have the Bakkerud livery as well.

Unfortunately Jeanney's and Munnich's cars are the only ones that aren't shown in trailers i believe, I saw them in the results standings in some livestream (can't recall which)....maybe Munnich's car was in the World Rx livestream with Timerzyanov, Baumanis and Eriksson playing dirt 4, go check it out in the wrx facebook page, it was posted about a month ago

[shadow118 18]

Kinda random video :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5Uillo-GM

• Body is 22 anti-lag noises too short.

[SirPhilMcKraken 279]

Didzis said:

Kinda random video :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G5Uillo-GM

• Body is 22 anti-lag noises too short.

0:43, cheeky DiRT 4 truck B)

[breyzipp 0]

AnegloPlz said:

breyzipp said:

Any link to a video where I can see the ones from K. Hansen, Jeanney and Munnich then?  Wilks and Nittiss I indeed already found as you said (one Fiesta, one Ibiza),
The one big missing livery is Ken Block's Focus then, kinda sad since it's a different colour scheme than the one from Bakkerud and different colour schemes is always nice.  And I agree that the Focus RS RX liveries (and the car itself) looks great!
Maybe Turn 10 pulled an exclusive one on that livery?  Since the Gymkhana version of Block's car was in Forza Horizon 3 (almost identical livery to his racing livery).  In Project CARS 2 there will also be rallycross (not FIA licence but individual cars and tracks) and they only have the Bakkerud livery as well.

Unfortunately Jeanney's and Munnich's cars are the only ones that aren't shown in trailers i believe, I saw them in the results standings in some livestream (can't recall which)....maybe Munnich's car was in the World Rx livestream with Timerzyanov, Baumanis and Eriksson playing dirt 4, go check it out in the wrx facebook page, it was posted about a month ago

Thanks!  I did find the video but my eyes are way too bad to read that small blurry text.  But it doesn't matter that much, less than 2 weeks and I'll be able to find out. :)

link : https://www.facebook.com/fiaworldrallycross/videos/1549413088404513/

[breyzipp 0]

lol :)

https://www.facebook.com/fiaworldrallycross/videos/1617627354916419/

[RallyDriven 398]

Some great races in q2, nitiss had another disaster, loeb and block had a great race, as did Timmy Hansen ekstroem and bakkerud. The track seems to favour the polos and solberg though!

[Janneman60 154]

Didzis said:

versedi said:

Janneman60 said:

Great! I hope to create livestream with vpn for the lydden events but have to admit I'm not good it that kind of things.

Install FreeVPN. 

Or download Opera, even simpler

Got it working with Opera, thanx. I also managed to get it on a tv screen with chromecast  :)

[breyzipp 0]

As a new fan of WRX, I just finished watching the entire 2016 WRX season videos on the FIA WRX Youtube channel, great stuff!

I have one question about the Estering though, totally love that track but since that joker has some slow turns and is so close to the start/finish line it seems beneficial to always take it on the final lap.  When you cross the start/finish line from the joker section compared to taking it from the normal track there is a HUGE difference in speed.  So taking the joker last means you have one less acceleration to high speed to do compared to when you take it earlier.  Weird stuff...

Anyway now that I have watched all 12 races here are my favorite tracks more or less in order :

1)  Hell / Holjes / Montalegre / Estering / Loheac / Lydden Hill
These are all absolutely amazing tracks and 5 out of 6 are in Dirt 4.  Can't wait!  Hell for the elevation change and simply fun track, Holjes for the atmosphere there with the crowd, Montalegre for the great corners and IMO one of the best joker sections, Loheac is much more spectacular than what you would expect and Lydden for the history and an amazing high speed joker merge through the dirt.
7) Latvia - great new track and I love the forest location.  Wonder what it will be like in sunny weather.
8) Mettet - Great turn 1 and jump, also one of the best non-permanent WRX tracks IMO.
9) Barcelona / Hockenheim - The big stadium area with the crowd is something special but the tracks themselves are not as good as the purpose-built RX tracks IMO.
10) Trois-Rivieres - from here on it starts to get ugly.  A street circuit WRX track doesn't really work IMO.
11) Argentina - this was ultra boring, glad it got removed from the calendar.  it's as if a farmer grabbed his truck and quickly drew a circuit in his fields.

Sad to see Lydden disappear from the calendar in 2018, BIG mistake IMO. :( 

[Janneman60 154]

Nice to read that you as new fan prefer the "old" rallycross tracks above the stadium ones. You have a point concerning the Buxtehude/Estering track, but I still like it more as the tracks were the jokelap is right after the start.

By the way, I watch rallycross since the early '70s

[SirPhilMcKraken 279]

Idris Elba just walked past me at Lydden! A guest of Hoonigan I think 

[Underkex 0]

Oh my godness!!! That Loeb-Ekstrom battle in semifinal was amazing.

[FloatingGrass 0]

breyzipp said:

As a new fan of WRX, I just finished watching the entire 2016 WRX season videos on the FIA WRX Youtube channel, great stuff!

I have one question about the Estering though, totally love that track but since that joker has some slow turns and is so close to the start/finish line it seems beneficial to always take it on the final lap.  When you cross the start/finish line from the joker section compared to taking it from the normal track there is a HUGE difference in speed.  So taking the joker last means you have one less acceleration to high speed to do compared to when you take it earlier.  Weird stuff...

Anyway now that I have watched all 12 races here are my favorite tracks more or less in order :

1)  Hell / Holjes / Montalegre / Estering / Loheac / Lydden Hill
These are all absolutely amazing tracks and 5 out of 6 are in Dirt 4.  Can't wait!  Hell for the elevation change and simply fun track, Holjes for the atmosphere there with the crowd, Montalegre for the great corners and IMO one of the best joker sections, Loheac is much more spectacular than what you would expect and Lydden for the history and an amazing high speed joker merge through the dirt.
7) Latvia - great new track and I love the forest location.  Wonder what it will be like in sunny weather.
8) Mettet - Great turn 1 and jump, also one of the best non-permanent WRX tracks IMO.
9) Barcelona / Hockenheim - The big stadium area with the crowd is something special but the tracks themselves are not as good as the purpose-built RX tracks IMO.
10) Trois-Rivieres - from here on it starts to get ugly.  A street circuit WRX track doesn't really work IMO.
11) Argentina - this was ultra boring, glad it got removed from the calendar.  it's as if a farmer grabbed his truck and quickly drew a circuit in his fields.

Sad to see Lydden disappear from the calendar in 2018, BIG mistake IMO. :( 

For me, it really sucked that Argentina left the calendar. I went to the race in 2015 and it was something special. However, I must agree that the track was absolute shit. Hopefully WRX will come back with something more exciting someday!

[Oscar97 25]

So this round's livestream in particular is unavalaible in Belgium...

[Underkex 0]

Oscar97 said:

So this round's livestream in particular is unavalaible in Belgium...

You can use a VPN unlocker. I use Canada location.

So HAPPY for Solberg, I am a absolute fan of the norwegian.

[shadow118 18]

Underkex said:

Oscar97 said:

So this round's livestream in particular is unavalaible in Belgium...

You can use a VPN unlocker. I use Canada location.

So HAPPY for Solberg, I am a absolute fan of the norwegian.

I used Canada at first, but it cut off twice so I switched to Singapore. Apparently it wasn't available in USA, Germany or the Netherlands

[KingOfCoins 286]

Brilliant drive from Solberg. So close to a perfect weekend.

[SirPhilMcKraken 279]

Great final, Solberg deserved that win! Overall a great day of racing :) 

[RallyDriven 398]

My internet is slow anyway and using vpn makes it much worse, so incredible reduced to about 240p!

I unfortunately missed the semis as I was out for lunch, also why I wasn't at lydden today! I heard loeb and ekstroems battle was good though!

[breyzipp 0]

Janneman60 said:

Nice to read that you as new fan prefer the "old" rallycross tracks above the stadium ones. You have a point concerning the Buxtehude/Estering track, but I still like it more as the tracks were the jokelap is right after the start.

By the way, I watch rallycross since the early '70s

Well young at heart as a WRX fan but a bit older of age (41) and also an absolute fan of racing tracks in their natural environment, Spa Francorchamps in the Ardennes forest being one of my favorite tarmac tracks ever.  And that's not because I live in Belgium. :)

Since I can't get enough of WRX I started to watch the 2014 highlights as well.  Ooh I simply LOVE that Kouvola circuit in the Finnish forest as well.  Why on earth was that removed from the calendar? :(

How much I love those tracks in forests (especially for WRX, it suites it so nice), I do understand with the growing popularity of the sport there comes also bigger demand of spectator areas and circuits like Hockenheim and Barcelona sure have that on offer.  But nothing beats a natural spectator zone as well, love to see people standing uphill on the grass on circuits like Estering.

I also find the flow of the circuit through the dedicated RX circuits (Hell, Estoring, Lydden Hill) much nicer to watch than those stadium circuits with their ultra tight hairpins (like Hockenheim).  Either way, spectacle seems to be garanteed for sure.

Going with a bunch of friends with a camper to Holjes for an entire week, that must be awesome. ;)  Those Sweeds sure seem to have an awesome culture. :)

[Jepsertti 26]

breyzipp said:

Janneman60 said:

Nice to read that you as new fan prefer the "old" rallycross tracks above the stadium ones. You have a point concerning the Buxtehude/Estering track, but I still like it more as the tracks were the jokelap is right after the start.

By the way, I watch rallycross since the early '70s

Since I can't get enough of WRX I started to watch the 2014 highlights as well.  Ooh I simply LOVE that Kouvola circuit in the Finnish forest as well.  Why on earth was that removed from the calendar? :(

I have talked about the Kouvola RX circuit here before because I live only 40km away from it and I really think it's one of the best (if not the best!) rallycross layouts in the world. I might be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that the reason why it was removed from the calendar was due to the pit-area being gravel instead of tarmac (FIA has a regulation that the pit-area must be tarmac due to safety reasons). No idea why the track owner never paved the pit-area in that case though... Really sad to see the track not being used in World RX because I absolutely loved to go to watch rallycross there, nowadays I'm only able to go and watch our national rallycross series there. :/

[PaloSamo 0]

Meanwhile across the Big Pond:                           
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0UVijjQu8E

[Scyy 0]

SirPhilMcKraken said:

Great final, Solberg deserved that win! Overall a great day of racing :) 

I agree, Solberg has had such bad luck the last year or so.

[shadow118 18]

PaloSamo said:

Meanwhile across the Big Pond:                           
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0UVijjQu8E

You could have 2 races happen side by side with the width of that track

[tbtstt 2,387]

PaloSamo said:

Meanwhile across the Big Pond:                           
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0UVijjQu8E

Crap track, but can't deny that was a very entertaining race!

Very sad to see the last World Rallycross event at Lydden for the foreseeable future, but an absolutely excellent weekend of racing and a fantastic way to celebrate of 50 years of the sport. So pleased that Solberg won it and, as a consequence, has leveled the Championship standings up.