Back to the roots!

rx-guru · 21 Mar 2008, 01:00 (Ref:2157736)

The Solberg Bros are building Rallycross cars now, Henning a Ford Fiesta ST and Petter a Subaru 'whatever'. Back to their roots – at least as a hobby.

See: http://www.erc24.com/

Barrie · 21 Mar 2008, 10:15 (Ref:2157986)

That is great news, the high profile names linked with our beloved sport recently is really exciting prospect, guru do you reckon Alain Prost could be tempted to give rallycross a go.

rx-guru · 21 Mar 2008, 10:35 (Ref:2158004)

Hi Barrie, In Froggyland everything seems possible for RX… Saw JP Beltoise, Patrick Tambay and other great names doing RX there. There is one blog entry of today at ERC24 talking about Sébastien Loeb possibly trying RX in France this year. Don’t know where that info originally comes from. As I can speak only about 200 words of French I always found it very difficult to get information about RX in France.

chunder · 21 Mar 2008, 10:53 (Ref:2158015)

Who can forget Delecour ramming it up the insode of Gollop in the ERC round that Pat won!! Awesome

rx-guru · 13 Apr 2008, 08:35 (Ref:2176257)

@ 1975DCS: Henning’s engine comes from Pipo Moteurs.

Quote: "Nå får jeg alt som jeg vil ha det. Det er Andreas Eriksson i Sverige som bygger bilen, en Fiesta. Motoren bygges av franske Pipo Moteur, de samme som lager motorene til Fords WRC-biler, og den blir helt rå. Differ og sånn er jeg jo ekspert på, så der får jeg det akkurat som jeg vil. Dette blir en helverst rallycrossbil!"

1975DCS · 13 Apr 2008, 16:09 (Ref:2176490)

Will that be their first Division 1 Rallycross engine? They made a lot of Rallying and Racing engines before... So new engine builder in the game?

rx-guru · 13 Apr 2008, 16:21 (Ref:2176496)

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Originally Posted by 1975DCS

Will that be their first Division 1 Rallycross engine? They made a lot of Rallying and Racing engines before... So new engine builder in the game?

No idea. Perhaps they have done an engine for a French RX driver before…? However, I think Henning will tell them how he wants his Fiesta engine.

The Eye · 13 Apr 2008, 16:54 (Ref:2176522)

If all goes as planed Henning will drive the car at Bjerkesprinten, 19. June.

rx-guru · 13 Apr 2008, 17:16 (Ref:2176537)

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Originally Posted by The Eye

If all goes as planed Henning will drive the car at Bjerkesprinten, 19. June.

Yep, but in the same interview he mentioned also that he will do only demo laps on Saturday and Sunday at Momarken…

The Eye · 18 Oct 2008, 02:41 (Ref:2315063)

From a VF interview with Petter Solberg.
“Petter Solberg have private plans for a future in Rallycross”.
It is very possible that I will build 1 or 2 Rallycross cars. (Subaru)
One is for rent and the other I and Pernilla will share. I would love to do Rallycross again. And Pernilla is very eager to drive again. She had a long break from Motorsport. For those of you who don’t know Pernilla is the daughter of former ERC champion Per-Inge Walfridsson. Stecka is her unkle. And as all the Walfridssons Pernilla was one hell of a rallydriver!
There have been some speculations that Petter would break his contract with Subaru. Just roomers Petter says. I will stay with Subaru for 2009. And that will probably stop him from racing in the ERC.

I suspect that my Subaru bosses do not like that I will do rallycross. Because of the injury risk. But then Pernilla can do it instead.

schanche · 18 Oct 2008, 09:12 (Ref:2315146)

Would love to see the new scooby in Rallycross trim just seems to look about right fo RX with Peter at the wheel what a combination!
One for the Guru any other brothers competed in top flight rallycross together in the Div1, super car catergory?

rx-guru · 18 Oct 2008, 10:01 (Ref:2315185)

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Originally Posted by schanche

Would love to see the new scooby in Rallycross trim just seems to look about right fo RX with Peter at the wheel what a combination!
One for the Guru any other brothers competed in top flight rallycross together in the Div1, super car catergory?

Just remember immediately that Per-Inge "Pi" Walfridsson and his younger brother Lars-Erik Walfridsson both took part with their Volvo 343s in some same ERC events as well as Vidar Sauthon (ex-Niittymäki Xtrac) and his less known older brother Terje Sauthon (ex-Bentza quattro). Also remember that 1987 European RX champ Seppo Niittymäki had a brother named Risto Niittymäki that drove a VW Beetle.

PS: 1975 ERC winner Cees Teurlings’ younger brother is Will Teurlings, but AFAIR Will started to do RX after Cees had already given up.

Barrie · 18 Oct 2008, 11:08 (Ref:2315220)

In Britain of course we had the Hathaways.

rx-guru · 18 Oct 2008, 11:10 (Ref:2315221)

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Originally Posted by Barrie

In Britain of course we had the Hathaways.

Barry and Graham. Who is the older?

D Smeets · 18 Oct 2008, 11:46 (Ref:2315234)

Other brothers who did Rallycross together is Jussi and Kalle Pinomaki. That ofcourse in D1a.

Jussi · 18 Oct 2008, 13:34 (Ref:2315267)

Fabrice and Marc Morize

Barrie · 18 Oct 2008, 21:56 (Ref:2315496)

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Originally Posted by rx-guru

Barry and Graham. Who is the older?

Barry's the older. Graham Hathaway Engineering is based just up the road from me in Maldon Essex, heard on the grapevine he still owns the RS200 he used sparingly in rallycross in the late 80's.

dcdesign · 20 Oct 2008, 21:58 (Ref:2317063)

-The Huybs brothers (they shared the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 7.5)
-Willem & Jan Veltman (in -1400-cup & D1a)

rx-guru · 20 Oct 2008, 22:37 (Ref:2317094)

Etienne and Georges Smet from Belgium (driving a Porsche 914/6 each).

Cees (Alpine A310) and Piet Kruythof (Alpine A110) from Holland.

Dominique (Alpine A310) and Philippe Wambergue (different cars) from France.

Friedrich (Opel) and Bernd Leinemann (Ford and Mitsubishi) from Germany.

And of course: Harry and Jan de Rooy (driving a DAF 555 Coupé BDA 4WD and later a DAF 55 Coupé BDA RWD each) from Holland.

silver bullet · 21 Oct 2008, 07:56 (Ref:2317310)

Eliot & Peter Dalkin
Ashley & Russell Simpson

King Arthur · 21 Oct 2008, 12:42 (Ref:2317522)

John and Daniel Welch - Daniel drove a hire car 205 at Croft. I think last year

bigdick1977 · 21 Oct 2008, 12:52 (Ref:2317531)

Father/ Son combinations: Jim, Barry and Jamie Squibb

Kevin McCann · 21 Oct 2008, 12:54 (Ref:2317537)

Guy and Mark Williams, and whats more thay are identical twins!

RICKY_BOBBY · 21 Oct 2008, 13:00 (Ref:2317545)

i will be racing against my dad at the superprix in revivals this weekend he is in the mr2 and i will use my rwd fiesta.

peter and elliot dalkin were father and son

bigdick1977 · 21 Oct 2008, 14:36 (Ref:2317595)

Tony and David Bell

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