Bye bye Miss American Pie drove my Ford to the Fjord but the Fjord was dry.
This was, aside from Le Mans, the best motorsport experience of my life. The open paddock and positive attitude of those involved with the racing towards fans in the paddock was astounding. I made eye contact with Sebastian Loeb! I fist bumped Tanner Foust (quite the reach down)! A greeting nod from Mattias Ekstrom!
Absolutely! Even got him to sign it. Was a crazy first motorsports event to attend, loved every second of it, the paddock was probably one of the coolest places to be ever.
My dad’s response this weekend to hearing his first Rally Car as it was going to the grid will always be with me:
I wish that Red Bull Peugeot was road legal exactly like that and sold in the US.
The European market as a whole is too conservative
Next time!
Neuville deserves the win in Germany after last year. In fact, he probably deserves the championship.
I didn’t see any team merch for sale anywhere. There was the COTA merch behind the grandstand but that was all I saw. That was a little disappointing.
Best of all, ARX’s utterly ridiculous inaugural race at Silverstone featured not only a driver who drove most of one race with his hood up to a second-place result, but another car that rolled over but kept going anyway after landing wheels-down.
You do know that the Euro Chevette was the same as the US one apart from the Dropsnoot and lack of catalytic converter. Same with the Escort. A fast version does not magically make a better range. I agree on the Granny, as that was a genuinely great car with a slightly dodgy rep and ruined when the Scorpio came about.
At the tail end of the race, Leena Gade and John Hindhaugh (god, that felt good to type) had a discussion on how bullshit the penalties were. I agree. It was infuriating to have stint limits. It was infuriating to see these stewards harangue these teams because of something they’re supposed to do. And it effectively…
Not pretending; there’s just no major TV coverage of it in the USA.
I don’t think so. I don’t think Loeb wants to go thru the full time grind of WRC.
That car is Total’ed.
Kinda like his career at Citroën. #toosoon?
Not surprised by this at all. After watching the crash happen last weekend my first thought was he was done. Last year they had take some time off after a few “offs”. This seemed like the logical progression to me. That’s not to say I won’t miss him on the WRC. He was a good driver and a great personality to watch.
Erweitern Sie Ihren Horizont. Die Europäer sprechen zahlreiche Sprachen fließend!
It started long before that...
For free you can watch highlights plus 1-2 live stages on Red Bull TV. OR for about $10/month you can watch all the stages live on WRC+. If it helps, $10/month comes down to about 30¢ per hour of live coverage (there’s about 25 hours per rally), plus you get a library of onboards from every stage for all the WRC cars,…