who would potentially be interested in this if it were organized hosted and sanctioned at East Coast tracks to start with at a competitive pricepoint entry wise (HPDE/Clubrace cost equivalent) with contingency sponsorship support from a major tire manufacturer?
course design would not include any GRC style jumps or pinch points that funnel drivers into single file. Ex Spec class cars in need of chassis stiffening that deems them no longer legal for spec class, IT cars and or course rally cars would be great platforms. Classing would admittedly be a bit fluid during the first year, but anything that can be logbooked and isn't a rollover hazard would be able to find a home.
I think it's a great idea. I've doodled rally cross courses over a map and service roads at Waterford Hills in the past
captdownshift wrote:
course design would not include any GRC style jumps or pinch points that funnel drivers into single file. Ex Spec class cars in need of chassis stiffening that deems them no longer legal for spec class, IT cars and or course rally cars would be great platforms. Classing would admittedly be a bit fluid during the first year, but anything that can be logbooked and isn't a rollover hazard would be able to find a home.
All I can say is, you should make it so cars logbooked/built to SCCA, NASA, and RallyAmerica can all compete when doing classes.
Also, one of the motorsports parks was already doing this on the east coast. You should look into if they are still doing it, what hurdles they ran into, etc. No point in reinventing the wheel (seems to be a strong suit of American racing organizations).
We ran some of those on a small scale, open to stock bodied ice race cars a few years ago.
Keeping it even more affordable, like the rallycross they did on Top Gear would be great. I don't mean the Nordic crapcan one, I mean the one that Jeremy ran in the BMW.
In reply to HiTempguy:
I've been in touch with the guys that have done it at Pocono and using them as a resource, they'd ideally like to get out of the organizing side and back to competing and helping out on race weekend.
Ideally, although only some locations have the facilities to handle it. I'd love to host 2 day rally sprint/ euro rallycross weekends. Where Saturday would be the NASA "rallysprint in a box" format (think single rally stage timed loop) and Sunday being Euro Rallycross on the track itself.
What about crosskart in the USA? that would be fun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosskart
