16 April 2018 Archives

World RX started with a bang

Monday April 16th, 2018Friday April 20th, 2018 Jens Jensen

The FIA World Rallycross Championship 2018 started with a bang at the opening round at Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona in Spain. The Qualifying heats Saturday was soaking wet with a lot of mud and rain on the track. The cars were skating around, and even Sebastien Loeb couldn’t keep the car pointing forward, and made a 360 on the wet asphalt, all by himself. The Sunday was drier. Sebastien Loeb broke his suspension after a contact with Kevin Eriksson in Q3, and that actually cost the Frenchman a place…

24hr Nurburgring Qualifying Race 15 April 2018

Monday April 16th, 2018 Rob Fitzgerald

The 24hr uses a slightly different track layout, so this weekend was an opportunity for cars to prepare for the big race; in addition this is a chance to book a place in the top 30 qualifying. A near 90 car grid began forming shortly after 11am & the field would be led away by Robin Frijns in the WRT Audi #8 followed by a top performing Lars Kern in Manthey #12,the Glickenhaus and Jörg Müller behind the wheel of the aging BMW Z4 #100. A quick start from Yelmer…