Today at Lydden there is a test and training day for Rallycross, exactly 45-years ago, and also on a Saturday, the circuit was bustling with TV cameras and a select group of drivers for the running of the very first Rallycross. For many years confused by repeated hearsay and misinformed rumour, no-one can now...
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After 34 years Mats Lysen replaced Piet Kruythof as the youngest ERC round upper class winner. Last weekend in Hell Renault Clio campaigner Mats Lysen has won his first ever ERC round in the main category, the Supercar class. Thereby the 19-year-old Norwegian has also broken a record that lasted for almost 34 years. The teenager...
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Some quick info about Norway’s Rallycross history. It may seem somewhat strange these days but Norwegian soil has played no role for Rallycross during the first decade of the sport. Although the first Norwegian Rallycross show event took place on September 1 1972 at the Momarken Travbane (by then a trotting course only) and was...
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In 1979 the ERC has been for the first time at the Circuit des Ducs. After the first ever European round of France took place in 1978 at Lohéac near Rennes in Brittany one year later the ERC regulars went to another tiny village in the north of France, this time the destination was Essay...
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267 – 40 – 35 – 7. Officially opened with a Rallycross race on Saturday, April 17 1971 in this spring the Eurocircuit in Holland exists for 40 years. In total the Dutch racing track was the host of 267 single Rallycross events till the end of 2010. 35 times there was a European Rallycross...
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