AUTOCROSS AND CROSS CAR 2021 CALENDARS REVEALED, WITH TWO NEW DESTINATIONS

In a most up-to-date e-vote, the World Motor Sport Council validated the 2021 calendar proposal drawn up by the Off-Avenue Rate for the FIA European Autocross Championships, the FIA European Wrong Automobile Championship and the original FIA Wrong Automobile Academy Trophy.

Deprived of all global competitors in 2020 attributable to the pandemic, Autocross drivers will return to the same outdated tracks of the European Autocross Championship, but will additionally phrase a brand original one in The Netherlands.

The three predominant Autocross classes of SuperBuggy, Buggy1600 and JuniorBuggy will compete on every of the tracks that ought to love hosted the 2020 Championship: Seelow and Matschenberg (DEU), Musa (LVA), Vilkyciai (LTU), Nova Paka and Prerov (CZE), St-Georges-de-Montaigu and St-Igny-de-Vers (FRA) and Maggiora (ITA).

The Dutch competitors, who are amongst essentially the most valid to the European Championship, will now like a dwelling tournament, as the non-everlasting circuit in Toldijk organised a check tournament to the satisfaction of the Off-Avenue Rate inspectors and thus obtained their charge to the European Championship. The village of Toldijk (approx. 800 inhabitants), positioned north-east of town of Arnhem, will host the European Autocross competitors on 31 July and 1 August 2021.

A single gas dealer (ETS) has been appointed for all Autocross classes (including Touring AX), whereas a single producer (Cooper) will likely be accountable for supplying the tyres to the SuperBuggy and Buggy1600 competitors. The TouringAX touring autos will compete of their FIA Cup at five events (Seelow, Musa, Vilkyciai, Nova Paka and Maggiora).

Other predominant original traits in the Autocross world might per chance be the starting up of the FIA European Wrong Automobile Championship [Senior] and the FIA Wrong Automobile Academy Trophy. The Senior Wrong Automobile might per chance per chance well now not be bustle in 2020, so it can per chance well well like its right start next 300 and sixty five days.

Earlier than the emergence of the pandemic, the competitors had been speeding to register to such an extent that practically about all of the 40 areas accessible in 2020 had already been reserved 3 months forward of the first scheduled tournament. We are able to demand of fleshy grids in 2021, the whole more so as the checklist of producers who like had their Wrong Automobile gadgets certified has grown restful further: to this level it involves 11 makes, but a dozen diversified homologation functions are in progress.

As a reminder, the European Wrong Automobile Championship is start to any Driver feeble 16+, maintaining a world licence of minimum Grade D, and to any Wrong Automobile complying with the technical prescriptions of the FIA Appendix J-279B.

Three forms of engines like been homologated for the Senior XC category: the 600cc Suzuki GSXR, the 600cc Yamaha R6 and the 850cc Yamaha MT09. Gasoline (ETS) and tyres (Goldspeed) will likely be of single originate and kind. The 2021 FIA European Wrong Championship will likely be structured around 5 events: the first four will likely be shared with the Autocross classes, in Matschenberg, Prerov, St-Igny and Maggiora, and the closing will likely be held in Spain, on the Mollerusa circuit (east of Lleida).

Be pleased Toldijk, Mollerusa joins the FIA Off-Avenue events, after a convincing check hurry organised closing October. In the tournament that the health disaster were to in the gash charge of the starting up of the Autocross Championship season by one or more events, Mollerusa would then lengthen its programme to the three classes of Autocross Buggy.

The 2d novelty of the 2021 season might per chance be the appearance of the Wrong Automobile Academy Trophy for drivers feeble 13 to 15, whose ideas are impressed by the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy: designation of drivers (one per country) by the ASNs, ‘Come & Drive’ precept with the offer of equivalent autos to all contributors (LifeLive chassis with Yamaha MT07 engine), a contained funds and a calendar concentrated over a period of the 300 and sixty five days that takes into legend the young drivers’ education.

Thus, the Academy Trophy will start in Might per chance in Germany (Seelow), forward of resuming in the center of summer, with stages in France (St-Georges-de-Montaigu), the Czech Republic (Prerov), Italy (Maggiora), and ending in October in Spain (Mollerusa).

[Photo by Marnic Meeuse]

FIA European Autocross Championship (incl. Wrong Automobile & Academy Trophy)

15-16/05 DEU Seelow [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]

05-06/06 LVA Musa [1, 2, 3, 4]

12-13/06 LTU Vilkyciai [1, 2, 3, 4]

26-27/06 DEU Matschenberg[1, 2, 3, 5]

03-04/07 CZE Nová Paka [1, 2, 3, 4]

17-18/07 FRA Saint-Georges-de-Montaigu[1, 2, 3, 6]

31/07-01/08 NLD Toldijk[1, 2, 3]

21-22/08 CZE Prerov [1, 2, 3, 5, 6]

18-19/09 FRA Saint-Igny-de-Vers [1, 2, 3, 5]

25-26/09 ITA Maggiora [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]