Just two weeks after the British Rallycross Championship kicks off, the European Championship follows, hurrah!
Sunday April 8th & Bank Holiday Monday April 9th is the first Round of the European Rallycross Championship. I'm sure most of you are au fait with rallycross, but if not it involves grids of 4 -6 cars racing round mixed surface tracks. The races are short (3 laps for heats, 4 laps for finals) so you get to see a lot of races in one day. Plus if its a boring race, its over quickly! The cars in the top (Supercar) class include a lot of WRC-derived machines, all of which are running 550+BHP!
The level of competition in the European Championship is
very high, with a number of works teams and some very skilled drivers. The series has a new backer this year and looks to be getting bigger; Petter Solberg is a new addition to the Championship and he will be racing against his brother Henning at Lydden as well, so it should be a good one!
If you haven't been to Lydden before then its a great circuit to watch as you can pretty much see the whole circuit from any point on the track. Its just down the road from Dover; so to get there is only a quick blast round the M25 and down the M2 or M20 for most folk!
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Lydden+Hill,+Wootton,+Kent+CT4,+Unite d+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&geocode=FejXDAMdIJcSAA&split=0&s ll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=6.881357,14.941406&hq=&hnear=Lydden+ Hill,+Wootton,+Kent,+United+Kingdom&z=14
Racing kicks off at around 10 and normally ends around half 4 - 5; even if its busy, you should get out of the circuit pretty quickly, so you haven't got a long crawl home afterwards.
Just to get you in the mood, here's a video from last years European Rallycross Supercar final at Lydden:
Sunday will be the first set of heats, with the rest of the heats and the all important finals on Monday. Pricing for the weekend is as follows:
Sunday £20 (adult).
Monday £25 (adult).
Weekend Camping £5 (per person per night).
Under 12s go free.
(Tickets are cheaper if you
buy them in advance 
)
I'm going both days and, at present, I'm unsure how early I'm setting off (probably around 7) which might be a bit early for you guys. Once I have a time though I'll put it up here if anyone wants to convoy down again!
