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Lancia Stratos Prototype 1972

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Le Mans 1970 

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Bernard Beguin/Jean-Francois Fauchille Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Monte-Carlo Rally 1976

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Ford Capri

[itracing]

World RX Prepares for Final European Round in Italy

Tensions will be running high at the penultimate round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy which takes place at the Franciacorta International Circuit this weekend as both the 2015 World RX Drivers’ Championship and Teams’ Championships could be decided.  Franciacorta, in northern Italy, will form the final round of this year’s FIA European Rallycross Championship (Euro RX), the Super1600 category plus the supporting RX Lites Cup.

In the Drivers’ Championship, an enthralling battle between Petter Solberg and Timmy Hansen is brewing.  Only 19 points separate the two drivers and with a total of 60 points available over the two remaining rounds, it’s all to play for in Franciacorta. Both drivers have won three events apiece but over the first 11 rounds of the Championship, Hansen has won 25 of his races compared to Solberg’s 24. Team Peugeot-Hansen is currently dominating the Teams’ Championship with a 79 point lead over Ford Olsbergs MSE.  A total of 112 points are still available but if Team Peugeot-Hansen have another strong outing this weekend, it’s likely that it will wrap up the Teams’ Trophy with one round still remaining.

In Euro RX, where Italy forms the fifth and final round, it’s a two-way battle between Tommy Rustad and Jerome Grosset-Janin with Norwegian Rustad currently leading his French rival by a slender six points. In Super1600, Latvia’s Janis Baumanis looks set to take the title with a 26-point lead over Hungarian Krizstian Szabo. Meanwhile, in RX Lites, only 14 points separate leader Kevin Hansen from Thomas Bryntesson and third-placed Kevin Eriksson – whoever becomes the champion will win a Supercar drive in the final World RX round in Argentina next month.

In a bid to secure his second Drivers’ title, Solberg has completed two days of testing in his Citroen DS3 Supercar to gain valuable seat-time. The SDRX driver explained: “We have done a lot of development in the last week – we’ve worked on the geometry, the engine mapping – lots of areas.  One of the places where I felt we were losing a little bit was coming out of the slower hairpins; it felt like the car was short on low-down torque. We’ve fixed that.  We are planning a shakedown today in Italy, just to confirm.  It’s time to forget about what happened in Turkey and focus on the second last race of the season.”

[pioneerfilms]

Spring is here - time to get back on two wheels!  This segment of a W.P.A. film from 1937 extols the virtues of an active lifestyle, and in San Jose that meant bicycling!  This new velodrome was San Jose's 4th, constructed in a spinach field where Lincoln High School now stands.  You can almost feel the wind in your hair!

[discoursesofthewithered]

12 July 1971, Tour de France. Team Fagor (Spain) drags the race leader Luis Ocaña after a severe crash. Ocaña was nearly 8 minutes ahead of Eddy Merckx, his biggest rival in this race, believeing he could continue the race the day after. Ocaña had to be hospitalised, though, and Merckx took the win. To show solidarity with the spanish team Merckx refused to wear the yellow jersey.