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With a star-studded line-up, machines that"ll leave Lewis Hamilton"s F1 car in the dust, plus a whole dollop of crash, bang, wallop on-track action, Rallycross is probably the perfect motorsport.Case in point, Red Bull"s Global Rallycross championship. It"s seen a massive rise in popularity over its seven-year lifespan, with 2015 being its biggest year ever.For the uninitiated, GRC isn"t actually as global as its name suggests that"s the job of the FIA-stamped World Rallycross Championship.The GRC is America"s Rallycross championship with only one round Barbados breeching the borders of the USA.Being American, it comes with American sensibilities. Everything is a bit bigger than its European counterpart (races include a mandatory 70ft jump), there"s pyrotechnics , whiter teeth and a hell of a lot of caffeine-fuelled whooping and hollering from the crowd.The driver roster is a Who"s Who board of drivers from the world of F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, WRC, BMXing, skateboarding and, er, YouTube. Collectively, they duke it out in 600bhp four-wheel-drive monsters cloaked in carbon fibre silhouettes of everyday superminis.
Date written: 22 Jan 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1765
With a star-studded line-up, machines that"ll leave Lewis Hamilton"s F1 car in the dust, plus a whole dollop of crash, bang, wallop on-track action, Rallycross is probably the perfect motorsport.Case in point, Red Bull"s Global Rallycross championship. It"s seen a massive rise in popularity over its seven-year lifespan, with 2015 being its biggest year ever.For the uninitiated, GRC isn"t actually as global as its name suggests that"s the job of the FIA-stamped World Rallycross Championship.The GRC is America"s Rallycross championship with only one round Barbados breeching the borders of the USA.Being American, it comes with American sensibilities. Everything is a bit bigger than its European counterpart (races include a mandatory 70ft jump), there"s pyrotechnics , whiter teeth and a hell of a lot of caffeine-fuelled whooping and hollering from the crowd.The driver roster is a Who"s Who board of drivers from the world of F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, WRC, BMXing, skateboarding and, er, YouTube. Collectively, they duke it out in 600bhp four-wheel-drive monsters cloaked in carbon fibre silhouettes of everyday superminis.
Date written: 22 Jan 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1765
