Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted January 16, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted January 16, 2021 That's still a bit concerning 😞 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 1 hour ago, PJTierney said: That's still a bit concerning 😞 I daresay there are a lot more interested parties in managing a European Championship rather than World RX at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Well, find some company who wants to step in for only 1 year, and that year for sure the first part is very likely to be difficult beacause of covid... I start to wonder if there is a WRX at all this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted February 3, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted February 3, 2021 🤔 https://dirtfish.com/rallycross/world-rx/why-wrc-and-world-rx-may-have-a-shared-future/ Quote “It’s an idea I introduced last year, to have World Rallycross – to have this big final in Spa-Francorchamps in the same weekend, to have two disciplines at one level joining for one event,” he said. The futures of both the WRC and World RX could be tied even closer from next year if speculation that WRC Promoter is about to take over the rights to World RX is to be believed. World RX lost its promoter when IMG walked out at the end of last season, just seven years into a 20-year term. The FIA launched a tender process to replace IMG and sources say WRC Promoter is closing on that deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2CMaDMaXX Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Why does it feel like WRC promoter is 'closing in on the deal' because there were no other contenders... Edited February 3, 2021 by F2CMaDMaXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrvold Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 With how the WRC "promoter" have handled WRC during the pandemic (and, well, the last X-amount of years, with WRC All Live being the exception). This is not good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted February 11, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted February 11, 2021 Confirmed: https://www.fia.com/news/fia-and-wrc-promoter-will-join-forces-fia-world-rallycross-championship 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James__McAdam Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 I am happy to see that the WRC guys have it. Not happy to see the electric things. But at least, we should be able to see our favorites drivers and cars one more year. 🙂 Now, please, Codemasters, find an arrangement with the new promoter to carry on to have the WRX licence in your future titles. Please, I am begging you. 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 5 hours ago, James McAdam said: Now, please, Codemasters, find an arrangement with the new promoter to carry on to have the WRX licence in your future titles. Please, I am begging you. 🙂 This. Definitely this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted March 26, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted March 26, 2021 Updated 2021 calendar: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted March 26, 2021 Author Share Posted March 26, 2021 Gutted about the timing of Spa: same weekend about RallyLegend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted March 29, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted March 29, 2021 On 3/26/2021 at 10:43 AM, tbtstt said: Gutted about the timing of Spa: same weekend about RallyLegend. No Abu Dhabi or South Africa too 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James__McAdam Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, PJTierney said: No Abu Dhabi or South Africa too 🤔 That's a shame. I would have loved seeing Oliver Bennett do a new barrel. Well, I think I will do Father&Son weekend at Spa somewhere in october. 🙂 Edited March 29, 2021 by James McAdam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted March 29, 2021 Author Share Posted March 29, 2021 2 hours ago, PJTierney said: No Abu Dhabi or South Africa too 🤔 I am less fussed about Abu Dhabi, but I quite like the South African track. Not a bad selection of circuits though, enough to make a decent season in my personal opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted March 29, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted March 29, 2021 Barcelona will have the new (Grand Prix) Turn 10 layout too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James__McAdam Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, tbtstt said: but I quite like the South African track. And I know someone who wants to take a kind of revenge on that specific track. His name starts with an A and contains a N, a D, a R, a E, another A, and then, a S. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2CMaDMaXX Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Wait, did they agree on a new promotor then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted March 29, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted March 29, 2021 18 minutes ago, F2CMaDMaXX said: Wait, did they agree on a new promotor then? WRC Promoter is handling WRX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F2CMaDMaXX Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, PJTierney said: WRC Promoter is handling WRX Oh, i saw their bid, didn't see the confirmation. Well, hum, ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 Enzo Ide confirms a full season in WRX... https://www.jcraceteknik.com/en/nyhet/Enzo-Ide-embarks-on-full-2021-World-Rallycross-Championship-with-EKS-JC ...so at least there will be one car on the grid! There was a media day held at Lydden last week for the forthcoming 5 Nations Championship (and also a bit of pre-season testing). Mixture of old and new cars plus *awaits drama* the STARD Fiesta ERX. The Fiesta was out throughout the day with various BTCC and rallycross drivers giving it a go. I still can't see an electric car having the same emotional impact as a petrol car, but there is no doubt that they are quick in the right hands. Car looked way more stable in person that I thought it did on TV (though I appreciate that a lot more refinement has likely happened since the debut of the car last year). I - perhaps controversially - hope that someone manages to get the budget to run one in the UK this year, as I think petrol vs. electric could be pretty interesting. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted April 19, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted April 19, 2021 Have they scrapped the Petrol v Electric plans for the Supercars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, PJTierney said: Have they scrapped the Petrol v Electric plans for the Supercars? I am honestly not sure what the latest version of the plan is! WRC Promoter have a lot to sort and I suspect that item might be a bit further down the agenda... ...5 Nations have opened the Supercar car up to electric cars this year. Natalie Barrett and Chris Hoy are both looking to run electric cars for the full season (if they can get the budget). Personally think that a mixed top class is - and always should have been the way - to introduce electric. Fans can get used to it and, as the cars get quicker, the top teams will naturally adopt the fastest car and switch over. Liam (Doran) took the Fiesta ERX out for a couple of laps and absolutely drove the arse off it. Slightly reassured me that they can be spectacular! Edited April 19, 2021 by tbtstt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Without the banging of the engines which you can feel in your body (on decent rx circuits not on the F1 ones were you as spectator are miles away from the action) it is rx without a sole. My conclusion, after being around on 10-15 races a year since 1973 is to stay at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorritVD Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 as i mentioned somewhere before, we cant give a good opinion about it till we saw a full event of elextric cars against each other with good drivers like Ekstrom, Kristofferson, Hansens, Gronholm, Bakkerud, Doran, etc. After that there can be a good verdict if its good or not. ------------- Scheider confirmed he is back with the All-Inkl SEAT in World RX ------------- World RX new logo. More info should come this week. IMG/Monster out, WRC/Red Bull in 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted April 21, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted April 21, 2021 WRC Promoter also announced today that they've set up a new firm called Rallycross Promoter to handle WRX. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 Few photos from the test at Lydden last week: Plus a glimpse of the future (maybe)... More pictures here, if you are bored! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted April 23, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted April 23, 2021 What was the STARD car like on-track? Also, I think the 81 was Andrew Coley 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, PJTierney said: What was the STARD car like on-track? Very quick in the right hands. I wasn't too sure about it in the morning, as a lot of the drivers were either press or non-rallycross (Matt Neal was one of the first out on track). Most of them were only getting three or four laps in the car, so they were (understandably) pretty tentative initially and only really got decent speed on the last lap. Manfred Stohl took the car out before lunchtime and that is when it got a lot more interesting to watch. I had the impression (from both Projekt E TV coverage and the morning viewing) that car was a bit stiff to drive. Stohl was obviously a lot more comfortable in it and understood how to effectively use the power. The car looked as fluid in his hands as any petrol Supercar I have seen and he was doing some beautiful exits from North Bend: sliding, on the power and laying down black lines... They did some launch comparisons with Andy Scott (I think Chris Hoy was driving the STARD for that) and both cars were neck-and-neck up to turn one. Makes me think that mixing electric with the petrol Supercars might actually prove pretty interesting. Sadly I didn't see any lap timing for the day, as I would like to see how electric compared with petrol on a full lap... ...especially as one of the last drivers out on the day was Liam Doran. Apparently it was his first time in an electric car but, in standard Liam style, he trundled out of the paddock and then just sent it. It wasn't the most sideways I have seen him coming into Paddock, but he was immediately drifting the Fiesta and I actually thought it looked a bit more manic than a petrol Supercar on the limit (I guess the power delivery is a bit more snappy). The sound was - predictably I guess - the only real negative. Modern Supercars typically aren't that loud, but I bloody love the crackle of ALS and that was of course absent. That said, there was quite a lot of screeching tyres and the whine of electric wasn't as irritating as I thought it was going to be. I can't see me loving an electric Supercar as much as I do the petrol equivalent, but I think the racing could still be spectacular with a field full of these. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 33 minutes ago, PJTierney said: Also, I think the 81 was Andrew Coley 🙂 Was hard to tell: drivers seemed to be moving between the buggies throughout the day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 Revised 2021 calendar now up: https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/10759/montalegre-returns-on-revised-calendar No Norway, season now ends in Portugal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted May 12, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted May 12, 2021 30 minutes ago, tbtstt said: Revised 2021 calendar now up: https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/10759/montalegre-returns-on-revised-calendar No Norway, season now ends in Portugal. Aw Hell, no 😞 Also, with the Monster branding gone WRX is looking a little more sterile/corporate. That shouldn't come across in the racing but let's see how things play out. I kind of miss the wild green from before. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 On 5/12/2021 at 10:02 AM, PJTierney said: Aw Hell, no 😞 Real shame to see Hell gone, that and Holjes are two of my absolute favourites, plus I was really hoping that the date for Spa would move so it wouldn't clash with RallyLegend. While we are waiting for World Rallycross news few snaps from the first round of the BTRDA Rallycross Championship at Lydden a few weeks ago: First British Championship round at Lydden at the end of the month. Hoping for decent entry numbers there, especially in the Supercar class, so it should be a good weekend. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted May 19, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted May 19, 2021 Interesting livery on that Escort 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted June 7, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted June 7, 2021 Looks like driver announcements coming this week. First up is Kevin Hansen, and curiously no confirmation on Timmy competing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorritVD Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 hours ago, PJTierney said: Looks like driver announcements coming this week. First up is Kevin Hansen, and curiously no confirmation on Timmy competing. Timmy will be there. This way they post two times and total get more communication. Btw, Ide and Scheider already confirmed ealier this year they will compete. But as things changed, I wonder if their plans also changed. --------------- This article is more interesting: https://dirtfish.com/rallycross/nitro-rallycross-reveals-first-teams-for-2022-electric-class/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Timmy has a contract for extreme X. So he can't do all events. Maybe that's why there is no announcement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 8, 2021 Author Share Posted June 8, 2021 Kevin Abbring confirmed a full season today in a FORS run GCK Megane. Lets hope he likes sitting on the back of recovery trucks... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janneman60 Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 Hmm, evetone broke down the ES motorsport polo except Kevin. So maybe the megane stays in 1 piece. Offcourse I am not very subjective in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share Posted June 12, 2021 Timmy Hansen (unsurprisingly) confirmed in a second Hansen car today. Slowly starting to see the numbers rise for WRX this year, lets hope there is enough to give us a decent season. Another trip to Lydden at the end of last month, this time for the first two rounds of the 5 Nations British Championship. Not the biggest entry in Supercar, but a very tight field at a couple of great finals, plus some really good racing in a lot of the other classes. Few snaps... ...with more pictures here if you are bored! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted June 14, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted June 14, 2021 That dust shadow 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share Posted June 15, 2021 On 6/14/2021 at 9:58 AM, PJTierney said: That dust shadow 🙂 Sure there is a rule that you are better off taking pictures with the sun behind you, but I like shooting towards the sun as it backlights the subject and can make for some cool lighting effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted June 15, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted June 15, 2021 23 minutes ago, tbtstt said: Sure there is a rule that you are better off taking pictures with the sun behind you, but I like shooting towards the sun as it backlights the subject and can make for some cool lighting effects. Agreed, I took this for F1 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 JC Raceteknik promising to reveal the driver... https://fb.watch/6hmgl6iBVE/ ...at 11am this morning. Sensible money is on a rather successful Swedish driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk9147 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 johan kristoffersson join audi with EKS team https://www.eksrx.com/news/eks-jc-and-johan-kristoffersson-join-forces/?fbclid=IwAR090S1sdPx9rcbN4BM_PTLmC-v34sUVNm0qHAokzhrAjvZyuSdEGzMJC5A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted June 22, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted June 22, 2021 Guess he couldn't secure the VW then, though having a car that's being actively developed is a big plus 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 2 hours ago, PJTierney said: Guess he couldn't secure the VW then, though having a car that's being actively developed is a big plus 🙂 The official confirmation of this has massively ramped up my enthusiasm for the 2021 WRX season. Chance to silence all the "it was only the car..." criticism of Johan and another chance to see the EKS/JC S1 in action: double win! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Social Media & Community Team PJTierney Posted June 22, 2021 Social Media & Community Team Share Posted June 22, 2021 Any chance of Ekstrom coming back, or was that a one-off last year that snowballed once he started winning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 41 minutes ago, PJTierney said: Any chance of Ekstrom coming back, or was that a one-off last year that snowballed once he started winning? Wouldn't rule a one off outing out, but I think he has too much other stuff on his plate for WRX this year. The late departure of Baumanis started the ball rolling last year and, as you say, they carried on that momentum when Ekstrom started winning: good thing really as I think Kristoffersson would have walked it otherwise. I'd say the return of the RX Cartel looks unlikely for 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James__McAdam Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 All these recent news on WRX make me feel really enthousiast again. I am ready for this 2021 championship. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbtstt Posted June 28, 2021 Author Share Posted June 28, 2021 Three Munnich Ibiza entered at Barcelona... https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/10773/three-all-inkl-com-münnich-motorsport-seats ...and Juha Rytkonen will drive at Barcelona, with more rounds (and possibly even a full World RX campaign) to come: https://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/article/10772/flying-finn-rytkönen-back-for Don't think they are going to be beating any records with the entry this year, but hopefully they can get over a dozen permanent entries for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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