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British Rallycross Championship 2019
2019 calendar now online:
Round 1 - 24/03/19 - Silverstone Round 2 - 2/04/19 - Lydden (Easter Monday) Round 3 - 22/06/19 - Pembrey Round 4 - 23/06/19 - Pembrey Round 5 - 26/08/19 - Lydden (August BH Monday) Round 6 - 08/09/19 - Croft Round 7 - 22/09/19 - Pembrey Round 8 - 27/10/19 - Croft Bit more blurb here: https://www.rallycrossbrx.com/news/e...lmb6xfn_3N22j8 |
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Years ago they where eligible for Supermodified as RWD ...
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Why?
Is it to support the superclass or to start a fledgling series on its own? |
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As the article says I can't see it attracting a flood of entries, but at least the option is there.
Silverstone is surely the most likely British round to attract RX2 drivers. |
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I guess it's not much different to the old 'spaceframe supercar' class - Terry Briggs had his Clio but I think that was the only one that competed.
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Wouldn't it make more sense for them to offer a subclass for production 4wd (conforming to same regs as the BTRDA class)? That would give people more opportunities to race, build up numbers and help align the two series.
The MSA series seems dead on its feet at the moment - I was once a regular but haven't been to a meeting for years. |
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Roger Thomas has purchased one of the M-Sport built Fiestas (from Bryan Herta Autosport) for use in the British Championship.
Probably my favourite modern supercar, assuming it will be running a Pipo engine that is surely going to be a very competitive car. |
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Interesting - I'm looking forward to seeing how that car goes compared with the other Fiestas. What was the appeal of importing that from the states rather than buying one of the European based Fiestas?
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The only M-Sport built Fiesta in Europe I believe is in the hands of Set Promotion/GRX and Nitiss won the ERX with it. When I saw Block with it (the GRX Fiesta by the way) in Norway in 2014, you could literally feel the ground vibrating when he accelerated out of the last corner. That car was really something else compared to the rest back then. |
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My experience as a spectator (Loheac 2014) was the same as yours though: the car sounded absolutely savage on the overrun. I hope the Thomas car sounds like that! |
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http://www.fiaworldrallycross.com/ar...D1pN5obg5yESdc But I agree fully, the M-Sport is a magnificent car. |
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I believe the first rallycross Fiesta M-Sport built was the RX43, which is the car that Block owns and was used in the GRC and in several gymkhana films (Gymkhana 6, Gymkhana 8 and Terrakhana). For his two European appearances in 2014, Block borrowed a second M-Sport car. That is the car that Niclas Gronholm used later (hence the comment "We have a new car for this year - it’s the Fiesta RX that was raced previously by Ken Block" because it was the car that Block raced in Europe, but not the one he owned). That same car was then used by Nitiss last year. Block still owns his M-Sport Fiesta, it was last seen in a video on the Hoonigan You Tube channel last year. |
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Oh really? I didn't know that. I understood that car was a "spare" that M-Sport had planned to run themselves (with Matthew Wilson driving), but it never happened: perhaps that came after Block had finished with the car.
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I remember posts made by Block back then and him writing about it. He tested it in England with an all-silver livery. It was supposedly a slight upgrade compared to the RX43.
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[For his two European appearances in 2014, Block borrowed a second M-Sport car.]
He borrowed it? Wouldnt have thought Msport would do that? |
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With the first round in a couple of weeks, might we see an entry list soon? Be interesting to see if any WRX regulars come and test Silverstone. I presume that they haven't made and changes to the circuit to make it quicker.
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Entries for round 1 at Silverstone now up:
British Rallycross Championship - Round 1 Entries 8 Supercars 11 Supernational/S1600 8 Junior Swift 10 Swift 10 BMW Mini 15 Retros (4 Group B/4WD, 6 Super Retro, 5 Retro) 2 RX150 Higgins not returning to defend his title then? And not looking like much of a fight for the RX150 title. |
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Sounds like an exciting event. Hopefully that entry will make it worth it. That’s what it needs. Don’t know where Higgins has gone though
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