You drive any car by using a rudimentary combination of skills that involve your eyes, ears, hands, heart, feet and so on. But to drive a Skoda Fabia Super 2000 rally car – and, more to the point, drive it quickly – you need to dig much deeper into those individual skill sets and maximise the effort in each instance. And nothing but total commitment will suffice.
An S2000 rally car such as the Fabia needs to be muscled violently along the road if it is to give its best, and the key thing that’s required is  … More
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Andreas Eriksson runs Olsbergs MSE, the Swedish company whose American arm is based in Huntington Beach, Calif., and runs the five front-running Ford Fiestas in Global Rallycross. He’s also created a proposal for Super Car Lites, a 320hp feeder formula into GRC. And unlike many motorsports people with strong engineering backgrounds, he’s not afraid to admit that in rallycross, the cars are not necessarily the stars: it’s about drivers.
RACER: What is the appeal of Global Rallycross, and is it especially important to attract attention while the World Rally Championship is going through traumatic and uncertain times?   … More
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Rallycross had its foundation event at Lydden Hill, UK, back in 1967. It started booming in Britain in the late ’70s, became a hugely popular sport in Europe (particularly Scandinavia) in the ’80s and its modern form has recently caught light here in the USA in the form of the Global Rallycross Championship. In the first of a three-part series, RACER editor David Malsher examines the GRC’s intrinsic appeal.
I’m by no means an ageist snob regarding the young nor do I believe that racing was necessarily better in X, Y or Z era, but I can remember being absolutely floored when I heard that Colin McRae’s presence at the X Games in 2006 had been a revelation to kids of a certain generation, who had played  … More
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