This article refers to the European autosport of Rallycross. Please see the Rallycross (disambiguation) page to learn about SCCA RallyCross. Rallycross (disambiguation) Rallycross is a term for motorsports where automobiles are raced on closed permanent mixed-surface circuits or temporary unpathed surface tracks. ...

Rallycross is a spectacular form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars, but with about 250bhp stronger engines. It is mainly popular in the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Great Britain. An inexpensive, entry level type of rallycross is the Swedish folkrace or its Norwegian counterpart, the so-called bilcross. Sprints are races in athletics. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing, autosport or motorsport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... Circuit may mean: Electrical network (electric circuit), interconnects electrical or electronic elements together printed circuit integrated circuit Synchronous circuit Asynchronous circuit digital circuit Series and parallel circuits Telecommunication circuit Kart circuits, a track for racing Circuit (political division), administrative circuit (airfield), an agreed pattern for managing local air traffic This... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... World Rally Car refers to the racing automobiles built to the specification, set by the FIA and used to compete in the outright class of the World Rally Championship (WRC). ... The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries, also referred to as Norden (The North), and less stringently as Scandinavia, is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ... Folkrace is a quite popular Swedish inexpensive entry level type of Rallycross. ...

The sport started as some kind of a TV show (with especially invited rally drivers), produced by Robert Reed of ABC television for ITVs World of Sport programme, at Lydden Circuit (between Dover and Canterbury) in Great Britain on Saturday, 4th February 1967; the first ever true rallycross was organised by the late Bud Smith and the Tunbridge Wells Centre of the 750 MC and was won by later Formula One driver as well as 1968 Rally Monte Carlo winner Vic Elford. After only one and a half years and several RX events at Lydden as well as Croft Circuit (near Darlington) ITV dropped Rallycross by the end of 1968 and BBC adopted the young sport for its Grandstand programme. In 1969 Lydden Circuit and Croft Circuit were joined by another RX venue, Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire. However, while both Lydden and Croft nowadays are still in use for rallycross Cadwell Park later dropped this type of car racing from its schedule. Rallying (international) or rally racing (US) is a form of automobile racing that takes place on public roads with modified production or specially built road cars. ... ABC logo, 1960s ABC Television or ABC Weekend TV was the British Independent Television (ITV) (commercial television) contractor on Saturdays and Sundays in the Midlands and North of England between 1956 and 1968. ... Current ITV logo. ... World of Sport was a British television sport anthology programme launched on ITV on January 2, 1965 in response to Grandstand. ... Map sources for Dover at grid reference TR315415 Arms of Dover Borough Council This article is about the English port town. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England and nominal head of the Anglican Communion. ... Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Monte Carlo Rally (officially Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo) is a rally racing event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organize the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco and the Monaco Kart Cup. ... Vic Elford was a Formula One driver from Britain. ... Croft Circuit is a motor racing circuit in the North-East of England located near Darlington between Newcastle and Leeds. ... Darlington is a town in the north-east of England. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The British television sport programme Grandstand is one of the BBCs longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. ... Map sources for Cadwell Park at grid reference TF293810 Cadwell Park is a large motor racing circuit in Lincolnshire, south of Louth. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ...

Per Eklund, 1999 European Champion, and his 4WD Saab

The largest competition nowadays is the FIA European Championship for Rallycross Drivers. Nordic drivers have dominated the sport ever since the end of the 1970s, with names as Martin "Mister Rallycross" Schanche (Norway), Olle Arnesson (Sweden), Matti Alamäki (Finland), Kenneth "His Kennyness" Hansen (Sweden) and Per Eklund (Sweden) as some of the more famous. British drivers to win European rallycross titles were the first ever European RX champion, Scotsman John Taylor (in 1973) and the two Englishmen Will Gollop (1992) and Richard Hutton (1994). Image File history File links Eklund03. ... Image File history File links Eklund03. ... Hi im edd winchester The Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established on June 20, 1904 to represent the interest of motoring organisations and motor car users. ...

In rallycross several cars start abreast at the same time, and drive three to six laps on a rather short racing track, setting the best qualifying times. In the end there are 'C', 'B' and 'A' finals for the 16 fastest drivers of the qualification and the overall winner of the event will be decided in an afternoon showdown. Rallycross is a relative small sport compared to rally and asphalt racing.

FIA European Rallycross Championship cars are built based on production car body shells but are extensively modified. A typical leading ERC series car, Per Eklund's Saab 9-3 Turbo 16 4x4 technical specifications are a 2 litre turbocharged 4 cylinder 16 valve engine with a 45mm turbo restrictor rated at 550+bhp and 800Nm of torque, four-wheel drive with programmable active differentials and six-speed gearbox, 1200 kg (2005 FIA regulations) and will do the 0 - 100 km/h sprint in less than 2.5 seconds.