Global Rallycross Championship 2012

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by rx-guru

Just a server change for ERC24 and the latest two News had gone lost, lads. That GRC story was 100% revived last night. The Austrian retro story is more difficult to find back. So don't worry, be happy!

Ok. Apologize for my negative comment.

[Matt]

that was a damn good event, and congrats to travis for getting it done.

[tbtstt]

Originally Posted by Matt

that was a damn good event, and congrats to travis for getting it done.

Seen the result (doesn't look a good weekend for Subaru ) but not the racing: hopefully will have a full copy to watch tomorrow!

[xlr8r]

I was at the race, my first ever rally event after. It seemed to be much better run than the GRC other events so far this year. The crowd that stuck around after the Nationwide race really seemed to enjoy it. Lots of fun, action, and hard racing after the complete snoozefest that was the Nationwide race. The modifieds put on a good show earlier in the day though. Overall a good full day of racing for a resonable general admission price. I ended up not going to ALMS at Lime Rock last weekend, so this made up for it.

[tux]

A car crashed into the catch fencing during practice? Im sure i saw this on the ESPN coverage but i only caught the end of it and with no sound.

[Matt]

that would be mr ken block
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wObz5v7XsQ

[tbtstt]

Still haven't sat down and watched the full coverage yet, but I've seen the A Final and it was quite a good race. Not sure on that raised hairpin corner (and the configuration of the jump - but thats already been discussed!), but otherwise it seems like an improvement on the previous circuit layouts.

Good, tidy, drive from Pastrana and nice to see him bounce back from X-Games (where he obviously wasn't too happy!). Not such a good result from Foust again but I see with 1 (now 2?) rounds to go he still retains the lead of the championship:

1. Tanner Foust (Ford Fiesta) 62
2. Samuel Hübinette (Saab 93) 50
3. Brian Deegan (Ford Fiesta) 49
4. Marcus Grönholm (Ford Fiesta) 43
5. David Binks (Ford Fiesta) 41
6. Ken Block (Ford Fiesta) 40
7. Stéphane Verdier (Hyundai Veloster) 39
8. Andy Scott (Saab 93) 38
9. Rhys Millen (Hyundai Veloster) 37
10. Travis Pastrana (Dodge Dart) 34
11. Sverre Isachsen (Subaru Impreza) 31
12. Liam Doran (Citroën C4) 27
13. Dave Mirra (Subaru Impreza) 23
14. Sébastien Loeb (Citroën DS3) 21
15. "Bucky" Lasek (Subaru Impreza) 19
16. Pat Moro (Subaru Impreza) 12
17. David Higgins (Subaru Impreza) 10
18. Toomas Heikkinen (Ford Fiesta) 8
19. Tim Rooney (Subaru Impreza) 4
20. Richard Burton (Subaru Impreza) 3
21. Bryce Menzies (Dodge Dart) 2
22. Filipe Albuquerque (Dodge Dart) 1
23. Jimmy Keeney (Subaru Impreza) 0

(Results table care of ERC24 )

Was expecting to see Deegan in the top 3 of the championship, but Hübinette in the unexpected surprise. I wonder if Gronholm will be back for the last events?

[tbtstt]

Excuse the double post, but I finally got to watch the full coverage of Round 4 at the weekend. Have to say that the racing seemed better again and there were a couple of really good racing moments in the event.

Interesting to watch the Subarus in some of the heats, the car looked fast at times, it was just in the corners where it seemed to be dropping back (especially so for Mirra). I really hope that Isachsen can pull it all together and someone from the Subaru team can get a decent result with the car this year.

Final observation: Jen Horsey. Really irritiating. I thought, given the time she has spent in rally and rallycross, that she would be pretty knowledgable on the subject: her commentary is full of errors though and seems to get worse with every event she appears in. Sort her out ESPN!

[Matt]

they're adding another round at fontana on indycar weekend.

gonna be run in the parking lot so they can set down lots of dirt and such.

[Cryos]

Originally Posted by rx-guru

Just a server change for ERC24 and the latest two News had gone lost, lads. That GRC story was 100% revived last night. The Austrian retro story is more difficult to find back. So don't worry, be happy!

Just tell JKR to stop playing with it

Originally Posted by schanche

Server change! That's good Eddi last couple of events website has gone down very frustrating waiting on our Lads reports.. Back to first for news

Very popular website, hence probably why the guys have had to beef up the server to take the hammering its been getting lately, its a tribute to the sucsess of the website.

[schanche]

[QUOTE=Cryos;3110415]Just tell JKR to stop playing with it

Jan is ever a perfectionist you seen his Pictures lately! You always know when JKR is in town
What with "RS" QBA and err? EL they are definately the best website by far!!!

Yes I am Biased!

[Matt]

i love erc24.

[Matt]

http://www.autoweek.com/article/2012...ORTS/120809897

VW to join in 2013.

[mountainstar]

I just hope they can manage all of this growth well otherwise it will be like the Mickey Thompson Stadium Series in the 1980's that burned brightly for a few years and then faded fast.

[tbtstt]

Originally Posted by mountainstar

I just hope they can manage all of this growth well otherwise it will be like the Mickey Thompson Stadium Series in the 1980's that burned brightly for a few years and then faded fast.

Speaking of which (and slightly off topic), have you seen a very similar series to the Mickey Thompson Stadium Series is coming next year?...

http://stadiumsupertrucks.com/sst/