Global Rallycross Championship 2014

[GHOGH]

Emma Gilmour on the case with the Suzuki Swift.
http://youtu.be/wTd7lgvogrA
She has driven a fairly wide variety of cars - Focus wrc, Impreza wrc, so should be fairly adaptable goes more for consistency.

[brad_m]

Sarah Burgess will be in a Chevy...

[NaBUru38]

The Washington round will be held at the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, home of the DC United soccer team.

Both OMSE and Hyundai will be sponsored by Red Bull.

Austin Dyne will run for Bryan Herta in a Ford Fiesta "powered by OMSE".

Sanctioning will switch from SCCA to USAC.

Austin Cindric will race some GRC Lites rounds.

[rx-guru]

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

Sanctioning will switch from SCCA to USAC

http://www.accusfia.us/member_clubs.html

Both are members of ACCUS. Should actually follow FIA rules than...

[NaBUru38]

Yeah, didn't bother to write that (I did so in a Spanish-language forum).

[bigted]

so austin cindric

Son of Penske Racing president Tim Cindric .... hmmm

[tbtstt]

First episode of the (very excellent) Subaru "Launch Control" season 2 now up:

http://youtu.be/c3fkwl2we14

Very brief mention of rallycross at around 3:15 and a few snippets at the end of the video, seemingly more to come in episode 2.

Subiesport preview of the forthcoming GRC car:

http://subiesport.tv/site/2014/04/20...c-preview-car/#

[NaBUru38]

Still a month to go for Top Gear Barbados...

[tbtstt]

Some more on the Subaru rallycross program in the latest episode (S2 E2) of "Launch Control":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rpctcOgb1s

[juha205]

I would like to see the differences between new and old car...

[NaBUru38]

Three weeks to go...

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by juha205

I would like to see the differences between new and old car...

I prefer the white 3-door Impreza.

[tbtstt]

Originally Posted by FIRE

I prefer the white 3-door Impreza.

The white Isachsen car? Its still a 5 door, the colour just seems to hide it. Pause the video at 5:02 and you can see the rear door line and door handle.

In other (minor) news Ken Block doing a spot of testing at Teeside in the UK:

http://youtu.be/moaHXhTBUj8

[Distracted]

Originally Posted by tbtstt

The white Isachsen car? Its still a 5 door, the colour just seems to hide it. Pause the video at 5:02 and you can see the rear door line and door handle.

In other (minor) news Ken Block doing a spot of testing at Teeside in the UK:

http://youtu.be/moaHXhTBUj8

That's so close to me. Like less than fifteen miles close. (Teesside has two S's, btw. )

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by tbtstt

The white Isachsen car? Its still a 5 door, the colour just seems to hide it. Pause the video at 5:02 and you can see the rear door line and door handle.

You are right.

The white one looks more agressive.

[tbtstt]

Originally Posted by FIRE

You are right.

The white one looks more agressive.

Agreed! Would love to see another two Impreza (or rather WRX STI) but, sadly, Subaru haven't made a two door Impreza since 2000.

Notable that they have ditched the higher rear radiator intakes in favour of conventional, door mounted, air intakes on the Gunnarson built Impreza. That was always a little distinction that the GRC Subarus had: not any more!

[Distracted]

Does anyone know if we're going to be able to watch this in the UK? It's on NBC now and I'm not sure how that network works.

[chunder]

I imagine it is possibly on live stream?

Or one of the streaming sites if you can get it?

Other than that, wait a few days it will be on the tube

[FIRE]

http://erc24.com/archives/17959

So far the best looking Subaru.

After 3 poor seasons it's time Sverre and Subaru deliver top results.

[Distracted]

TV listings for GRC.

2014 Red Bull Global Rallycross Schedule

May 18 – Top Gear Festival Barbados (May 24, 1 p.m. ET on NBC)

June 7 – X Games Austin (check local listings)

June 22 – Volkswagen Rallycross DC (LIVE, 2 p.m. ET on NBC)

July 20 – New York, NY (LIVE, 2 p.m. ET on NBC)

July 26 – Charlotte, NC (LIVE, 3 p.m. ET on NBC)

Aug. 3 – Detroit, MI (LIVE, 2 p.m. ET on NBC)

Aug. 23 – Daytona Beach, FL (LIVE, 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC)

Sept. 20 – Los Angeles, CA (LIVE, 5 p.m. ET on NBC)

Sept. 27 – Seattle, WA (Sept. 28, 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC)

Nov. 5 – Las Vegas, NV (Nov. 16, 2 p.m. ET on NBC)

They're on the NBC Sport website which my tech savvy friends say you should be able to watch by downloading a proxy something. There's one called Hola that works on Google Chrome. I've never tried anything like that, so I'm not sure it will actually work.

[Distracted]

Just read that Liam Doran, Anton Marklund and Toomas Heikkinen are taking part in X Games Austin. http://www.rallycrossrx.com/article/...rs-prepare-for

[bigted]

http://xgamesaustin2014.sched.org/ov...s#.U42joVJOUdV

4 rallycross and stadium truck schedule

[NaBUru38]

The X Games Austin were held today. I won;t post the results, just in case you watch a rerun.

More than half the starts were aborted for a crash. The first three corners were a bottleneck, they should have chosen the backstretch instead.

The joker was a shorter corner. The exit was right on the entry of the next corner, so some cars crashed hard. At least there were no issues with the jumps.

Anyway, I still think that the starting grid is too tight. There's no way three cars can start side-by-side and make the first three corners without someone backing off or crashing.

[Distracted]

Yep, I was following the race on Twitter and there were so many incidents. They're making the tracks too small. (I know that building one from scratch is expensive.)

Very surprised to read that Tanner Foust had rolled his car. Not sure what happened- I haven't seen the race yet. Glad he's okay. He's having some rotten luck with the Polo.

Linky link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w81OSHqWNY0

[Distracted]

Watching the Youtube footage now. Is it just me, or is Piquet Jr. very aggressive?