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4 hours ago, JorritVD said:

If a track doesn’t exist anymore, does someone still can have the rights for it? Or are rights/licenses still needed for it to do it in the game?

if the rights of the track aren’t registrated anymore, than anyone could register it to have the rights from it. 

Thinks something happened with Gulf a long time ago. That was not registrated and than some people saw that and got the brand basically for free. 

also I don’t understand, there is so much space, why than put a building on it? Ofcourse the grounds purpose is for business, so easier to get a permit. But still. 

I mean the easiest way to do it is just make the track but not have any sort of identifiers with Lyngas' name on it.  Just call it "Tranby, Norway."

Or flip the Start lap and the normal laps.  So you run the big corner on every lap and the chicane is the Joker lap.

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RallyX Nordic at Kouvola (a former WRX track). Will be a interesting final and who will be the champion. Larsson in his Audi, or Oliver in his Honda.

Apart from ARX, Audi can still win all 3 "major international" rallycross championships: WRX, ERX and Nordic.

I'm thinking, could the Audi S1 go towards ARX next year replacing the Beetles? I think VW don't allow the Beetles to race next year in ARX, and the S1 could be a good replacement for the Andretti team, as it also a VAG product. Maybe EKS could build a new S1 with some support from Audi NA. 

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There has been some rumours about Finland being in the next years calendar with Kymiring. The layout looks okay-ish. There just doesn't seem to be anything that makes the track special. But Kymiring has some elevations changes so that might make it good.

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22 hours ago, JorritVD said:

I'm thinking, could the Audi S1 go towards ARX next year replacing the Beetles? I think VW don't allow the Beetles to race next year in ARX, and the S1 could be a good replacement for the Andretti team, as it also a VAG product. Maybe EKS could build a new S1 with some support from Audi NA. 

Possibly.

We don't get the A/S1 here so that might be a detractor for support from the factory.

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Was a crazy weekend at Loheac for sure and no one could be consistent. Enjoyed the action, although it was a bit shame of some incidents, also f.e. in the Euro RX semi-final where cars crashed out including Thomas Bryntesson. It is a shame that Gronholm missed two weekends, otherwise he probably would have led the championship with maybe about 10 points. Kevin Hasen was also lucky that he got the final after Scheider messed it up in the semi-final. 

And Rokas "Rocket" Baciuska also impressed again. That Prodrive Megane just seems better than that G-Fors Megane. I heard the difference were in the dampers and the engine. Marklund ofcourse brings his Bilstein partner. 

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17 hours ago, JorritVD said:

Was a crazy weekend at Loheac for sure and no one could be consistent. Enjoyed the action, although it was a bit shame of some incidents, also f.e. in the Euro RX semi-final where cars crashed out including Thomas Bryntesson. It is a shame that Gronholm missed two weekends, otherwise he probably would have led the championship with maybe about 10 points. Kevin Hasen was also lucky that he got the final after Scheider messed it up in the semi-final. 

And Rokas "Rocket" Baciuska also impressed again. That Prodrive Megane just seems better than that G-Fors Megane. I heard the difference were in the dampers and the engine. Marklund ofcourse brings his Bilstein partner. 

I think the G-Fors Meganes use Oreca engines this year.

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wow, the hansens got super lucky in the SF and Final this weekend! Kevin getting 3rd in his semi because Schieder had some kind of mistake right near the end, and Timmy being gifted first place in the final because Bakkerud and Gronholm got tangled on the first corner. still, great weekend yet again. it's nice no longer having factory teams who just completely outperform everyone else. it'll be nice if OMSE come back with the Erikssons (and/or Larsson) next year. should be super competitive.

Heikkinen was great this weekend too! especially considering he doesn't seem to have driven much RX at all since he was Ekstrom's teammate in 2017, he was very impressive.

and agreed- it's a big shame Gronholm missed those two weeks, otherwise he'd probably be on top now, or at least very close.

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2 hours ago, ianism said:

and agreed- it's a big shame Gronholm missed those two weeks, otherwise he'd probably be on top now, or at least very close.

Yeah. Gronholm should - at least in my opinion - have been Champion this year. Such a shame that he had to miss two rounds. I was hoping that he would win in France and the other top three would have a poor weekend so he could get back in the mix, but with just 60 points available now, that seems very unlikely... 

...still a great weekend for the Championship though. Although I haven't warmed to Timmy and Kevin, I can't deny that it was a smart drive from both of them in the final. Especially impressive from Kevin in the closing stages of the race, I thought he was holding the field back for Timmy, was stunned when came out from the joker in third!

Good speed from Topi, but standout performance of the weekend had to be Baciuska. I still would like to see Bakkerud win, but I think he will be outsmarted by the Hansen brothers. Every point counts at this stage and I think Andreas was daft not to just let Niclas go in the final. By trying to outbrake him, they both tumbled down the order and allowed Timmy and Kevin to close the gap. 

Got my 5 minutes of fame on the World RX Instagram as well...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B13eXG6pzZm/

 

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Forgive the double post - and this isn't World Rallycross content - but I uploaded a few pictures from round 5 of the British Championship, so I thought I'd post a few here: 

48675942526_249b56c507_b.jpgFord Fiesta VI 4x4 T16 (51) (Julian Godfrey) by Steve White, on Flickr

48675943481_72ac1a0b18_b.jpgSuzuki Swift Junior (126) (Roberts Vitols) by Steve White, on Flickr

48676117297_1bda8d2cd0_b.jpgFord Fiesta VII 4x4 T16 (101) (Derek Tohill) by Steve White, on Flickr

48675602583_fd80604164_b.jpgFord Fiesta VI 4x4 T16 (51) (Julian Godfrey) by Steve White, on Flickr

48675944981_81c9445d4c_b.jpgCitroen C2 S1600 (303) (Jarek Suchowiecki) by Steve White, on Flickr

With those done I can start looking at my Loheac pictures this evening! 

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https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/10462/nurturing-the-next-generation-at

 

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Joona Pankkonen, 2018 Codemasters DiRT World Champion: “I went into the Supercar Lites test day with absolutely zero experience of driving a racing car, and I had a blast! It was even more fun than I had expected it to be, and the car is just spectacular. As a discipline, rallycross really excites and inspires me, and when I got behind the wheel for the first time, I just wanted to put my foot to the floor so I had to rein that in a little! I had an excellent teacher in Oliver [Eriksson], and with every lap I learned more and more and got quicker and quicker. Driving the car itself is not the difficult part; it’s driving it fast and finding the extra lap time that’s the challenge, but the gaming definitely helped me to prepare for this opportunity – there are actually a lot of similarities between DiRT and the real thing.”

 

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Pretty sure, if engineers manage to achieve a good balance in weight distribution, the e-RX cars would smash them. It's clear that there shouldn't be any turbo lag in RX Supercars, but still they first need to build that power up, whereas the torque in e-RX is instantly there, you press the 'gas pedal' and you get instant 100% of power. 

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1 hour ago, richie said:

Pretty sure, if engineers manage to achieve a good balance in weight distribution, the e-RX cars would smash them. It's clear that there shouldn't be any turbo lag in RX Supercars, but still they first need to build that power up, whereas the torque in e-RX is instantly there, you press the 'gas pedal' and you get instant 100% of power. 

Weight will be a challenge though, but if you’re only planning to have batteries run for 5-10 minutes maybe you won’t need many.

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55 minutes ago, PJTierney said:

Weight will be a challenge though, but if you’re only planning to have batteries run for 5-10 minutes maybe you won’t need many.

Sure, but if they're going to race against RX Supercars they'll have to have similar weight, so they'd need some ballast, and under the same regulations I think e-RX would be faster. 

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53 minutes ago, Janneman60 said:

With the e-cars rallycross is over. E-cars have no soul, the tracks will be moved inside city's and those tracks will be boring as Dubai. It will get a public, they can call it wrx but it won't be rallycross.

Electric racing attracts a lot of different people and sponsors. Same with Formula E. Maybe first year together with WRX, but I think after they should take a separate route. 

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2 hours ago, Janneman60 said:

With the e-cars rallycross is over. E-cars have no soul, the tracks will be moved inside city's and those tracks will be boring as Dubai. It will get a public, they can call it wrx but it won't be rallycross.

The World Championship might go electric, but the European and National Championships won't: ICE rallycross will still exist. 

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Absolutely, the racing is really good and much more fun to watch than most F1 races imo. There are some prominent names from the motorsport universe (F1, DTM, WEC etc). in the series. The Gen2 cars look so much better than the previous gen.

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I grew up with rallycross being about beetles with a turbo engine, escorts some also with turbo. Those days the drivers were guys who build their cars themselves. Then the glorious grp.B cars. Try them in the game to get the tastsof hard to handle cars.

Then slowly it went to what it is now. Guys who can drive as long as they have money, they can't maintain the csr themselves, they are payed drivers. For me most of them act like spoiled kids, no time for the cars, all the time for youtube video's about there live, workout training, as if they have nothing else to do, especially no work to do.

Next thing is that the cars, coming from hard to drive to nowadays toys, going to loose what makes them rallycross cars, the technique and the engine sound.

I can inagine that for a much younger generation, which grew up with all electric  things surrounding (phones, wifi, unlimited internet, electric road cars) EWRX is attractive. I also hope the same young generation can understand that for an older generation this means the end and we are moaning about that a lot.

All that said I must admit I love my electric bike ☺

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No doubt, technology has made huge leaps the last decades which changed the sport, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Let's not forget, people raced whatever was available at their respective time. It wasn't their choice to drive those RX with primitive diffs, they didn't choose to drive a car down the Mulsanne straight with the fuel tank everywhere around them, yet we praise them as heroes. Sure, they had to be brave but if they had the choice they'd have preferred better tech.

I highly doubt today's cars are toys and easy to handle. I've never driven a RX Supercar, but having 600HP and being that light these cars are rockets, and they still sound awesome, don't they? 

I think there's a misunderstanding with currently more and more emerging tech. The future isn't all electric, that's what many people in the automotive industry say. I'm convinced the combustion engine is not going to disappear, there will be a 'coexistence' with electric, hybrid and also hydrogen will be huge in the future. 

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3 hours ago, richie said:

 

I highly doubt today's cars are toys and easy to handle. I've never driven a RX Supercar, but having 600HP and being that light these cars are rockets, and they still sound awesome, don't they? 

 

In the good old days there was no sequesential transmission, if you did it wrong something broke. The suspension is what you made of it, no computer could help you or the one who build your shockabsorbers. And the tires weren't that good either. The tracks had real bumpy gravel, not concrete with a little dust on it.

So those cars on those tracks were all over the place while driving, very hard to handle. No need of jokerlaps back then, no one could drive 4 laps without little mistakes which made it possible to overtake.

So modern cars are easier to drive. Nevertheless you still need skills and talent  to do it better than others. But it is much closer to circuitracing now.

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1 minute ago, JorritVD said:

Scott Speed is out for the rest of the year, But looking to recover well. No replacement driver announced yet. I hope Pastrana or maybe Solberg.

Pastrana probably, maybe Solberg but he's probably not interested in doing more rallycross for now - who knows.

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