ERC France Round 2 May 19th/20th

[AlamakiRX]

Entry list for round 2 now online;

http://www.circuit-ducs.com/listercducs.htm

[Hickey]

Do you know if they'll mix the classes? Also would expect to see some Belgians in the S1600s, as it's a round for them too.

[PhergAthor]

Classes will be mixed for all championships, both heats and finals.

[ClintonRX]

With 90+ entrants, that is one meeting I would definitely love to be at......."sadly" I will be on holiday with the wife!

[Hickey]

Originally Posted by PhergAthor

Classes will be mixed for all championships, both heats and finals.

That's really good to hear.

I'd predict over 110 entries, when finalised. Looking forward to it.

[Hickey1]

Originally Posted by Hickey

That's really good to hear.

I'd predict over 110 entries, when finalised. Looking forward to it.

Yeah hoping for a few more Supercars.

Taking Mum and Dad with us this time could make it interesting, will email you.

[Stephen H]

Originally Posted by Hickey1

Yeah hoping for a few more Supercars.

Don't forget the division 3 cars, they don't run with super cars, but are 4 wheel drive and are not that much slower, and 22 booked in, added to 17 super cars, that makes potentially 39 four wheel drive cars.

[chasing cars]

Pauwels and Janssen not yet booked in to supercars, Scheveneels had said he would be doing some Belgium rounds in his Scirocco but am I right in saying that has yet to happen? Maybe the Belgium entry is still to be announced. That aside a great French entry and definitely worth a trip.

[Hickey]

Is there any chance of Tohill going out for this? Or any other Brits?

Also, how does this Rallycross French Open (http://erc24.com/archives/10763) affect things? More entries?

[paul1982]

Jansen will not drive in Essay.
Next round for him is Hungary ERX...
Pauwels don't know...
Kuypers and scheveneels are now on the list.

Will be a good race!

[chasing cars]

Gets better and better, Pauwels now added, Roman Castoral in touring cars (always spectacular at the first turn) also in, up to 95 entries listed. Definitely the way rallycross is meant to be.

[Hickey]

Quite a few more on the list now, I make it 112 (excluding the duplicates in the s!600). Not long now!

Early start on Sunday and 5 lap heats?!

Saturday, May 18. 2013
09h00 - 11h05 First free practice (4 laps)

11h05 - 13h10 Second free practice (4 laps)

14h00 Official timed practice (3 laps)

16h00 First heat begins (5 laps)


Sunday, May 19. 2013
08h15 Second heat begins (5 laps)

11h00 Third heat begins (5 laps)

15h00 Finals (6 laps)

[Hi Low]

That is some entry, lets hope the weather is warm and dry this weekend, pity there is not more British drivers doing this championship, Its a good event for spectators to how many heats and finals is that

[bigted]

see you there

[Hickey1]

Really looking forward to this event now. Rallycross as it should be.

[Hickey]

Whilst i am really looking forward to it, let's not kid ourselves about the entries of the RCE (and the RX). So far, we have what everyone feared - a split and half the numbers in each. The French national championship must account for 75% of the entrants (so, in that respect, it's very clever of the RCE to tack onto local championships).

Anyway, 120 cars of decent quality over a weekend; can't be bad.

[FIRE]

Van Mechelen wins heat 1.

Supercars:
http://www.rcchallenge.eu/downloads/...1-laptimes.pdf

Super1600:
http://www.rcchallenge.eu/downloads/...1-laptimes.pdf

Touringcars:
http://www.rcchallenge.eu/downloads/...1-laptimes.pdf

[FIRE]

Pauwels wins A-final.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/ERC24

[tbtstt]

Crowd camera of the A final here:

http://youtu.be/Va6uJUp7zHw

[Hickey]

Good weekend in France. Great to finally see the Division 3 cars. Shame that some of the top French guys weren't there in Supercars.

I do really wish that there was just one European rallycross series, though. As good as the French guys were, and the numbers of quality entrants across categories (apart from TouringCars), I did feel that the Supercars were lacking a bit from the lack of other European guys.

[chasing cars]

Agree with Hickey, a really good weekend of proper rallycross but does need more European entrants to make it feel like a real European series.
As ever a great atmosphere from a large crowd, though smaller than past years for the ERC but that made for more comfortable for viewing.

[rallyloverke]

Interesting to see there were three winners on the Supercars-podium :

Pauwels on the Belgian championship
Van Mechelen won the Challenge allthough he was second in the Challenge
Groset-Janin won the French round

Not really very clear to everyone.

Beside that : racing was very good indeed , atmosphere was great , we had a lot of weather-luck apart from saturday late afternoon. But like others write, not a real European feeling.

I wonder what will happen a Challenge round is not mixed with a national round?

[Hickey]

So lucky with the weather. Apparently it rained all day at Le Mans, which is just 60km down the road.

I think that without the French entries, it would have been very thin on the ground.

The Challenge just needs to get more regulars, or IMG need to halve their prices...

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by rallyloverke

I wonder what will happen a Challenge round is not mixed with a national round?

Small grid...

[rallyloverke]

So what i really see as confusing for those who were there , you go home and you read the page at this link :
http://www.rcchallenge.eu/challenge/...ound-2-results

Than it looks like there was no Pauwels or Grosset-Janin racing!?

Of course also confusing for who was NOT there :-)