RX race

[photax]

Hi !

Last Sunday I visited a race of the Rallycross European Championship series. I am watching this series since my dad took me there for the first time in the mid 1970`s. These races are quite spectacular, because the cars are pretty fast ( up to 600 HP ), the road surface is varying and you are able to overview the whole race track. This time a got some tickets for seats at the start-finish line. A good place for watching the race, but a bad place to take pictures, because you are sitting just in front of a big protective fence.
Just found a link that shows the final race:





















MIK

[mickeyobe]

MIK,

Non of your images in this afternoon's postings are showing
I just get the word [image].

Mickey

[photax]

Mickey,

I think there had been technical problems yesterday evening, the pictures had not been showed if you use the Internet Explorer, but they had been visible using Firefox. This problem seems to be fixed now.

MIK

[nikonbob]

MIK

Great link and photos, hope you had ear plugs in. I could not see the photos yesterday and I am on Firefox.

Bob

[Doug T.]

Hi Mik!

Great photos!
I've always been a fan of Rallycross racing. I used to watch them in Germany.
I haven't seen anything like it in the US.
Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

Doug

[daveh]

I didn't have any problems seeing them - though our internet has been and is still going through a phase of flicking on and off. One or two threads I have replied to or was just about to and the 'net has gone down.

Good pics, MIK. I'm trying to work out who the British driver is. It's a bit of a league of nations with those flags.

Great video - thanks for the link.

[grenouille]

Great shots Mik, thanks for sharing

Hye

[mayberryman]

Jun 2, 2012 8:21:05 GMT -5 Doug T. said:

Hi Mik!

Great photos!
I've always been a fan of Rallycross racing. I used to watch them in Germany.
I haven't seen anything like it in the US.
Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

Doug

Doug, there is some Rallycross racing going on in The United States, however, it is nothing like that done in other countries. SCCA has some events (I have driven in two at Summit Point West Virginia) that are run more like an Autocross on dirt. They run one car at a time and the Subbies pertty much are the car to have. I showed up in my Scion tC and ran in a class that was fairly tame. Great fun and a lot of dirt.

[andys93integra]

Nice shots MIK. The closet motor sports to me would probably be Elko speedway (3/8 mile paved, MN) or Cedar lake speedway which is a 3/8 mile clay oval in Wisconsin. I have been to Cedar lake, many years ago, maybe I will have to go back and see about getting some pics!

Andy

[daveh]

I think Europe in general has pretty similar styles in each country. The one I'm not sure of is hill climbing: do other countries have this?