I don't know if interest in this will be limited as its the same weekend as the Easter Thunderball at Santa Pod, but I thought I'd stick a post up here if anyone is up for it.
Sunday April 24th & Bank Holiday April 25th 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 (Division 1) class include a lot of ex-WRC and WRC-derived machines, all of which are running 550+BHP!
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&...d+Kingdom&z=14
Racing kicks off at around half 9 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 Division 1 European Rallycross final, as held 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 as follows:
Sunday £15 (adult).
Monday £20 (adult).
Weekend Ticket £30 (including Camping on Sunday).
Under 12s go free.
I'm definately going the Monday, so if anyone fancies meeting at Clacketts and convoying down to Lydden then add your name to the thread!