about off-road racing
If you could create a motorsport what would it be?
Why not combine the exciting elements of every motorsport?
F1 - custom built, very fast, high horsepower machines. But combined with a bolloxed up format that means little passing. Cars so fragile that if they so much as brush each other they have to be repaired. Tracks that are repeated again and again... and again.
Rallying - Fast and furious. Racing as it pretty much should be, loose and loud. But wait, why ruin all the fun by making the cars go in single file with huge breaks between cars? Why not throw them together? Or how about making the tracks a mix of smooth and rough with a bit of extreme rough thrown in as a shocker!
Circuit Racing - Door to door, edge of your pants racing. But you are doing that round and around and around trip again. The cars are also heavily regulated and cost more than the new CEO of Telecom makes in a life time.
4x4 - Fantastic sport. Extreme tracks that defy belief. Custom built vehicles that have a huskier voice than Helen Clark. But it so slow... why not throw a fire breathing monster in there to tear up the flags at 200kph?
So what do we have?
Custom built cars that are strong enough to take a bit of a bashing.
Door to door, bumper to bumper action. So lets mix it up and start as many cars at the same time as possible.
Courses that aren’t simple round and round, that contain smooth, rough and so rough you have to swallow your kidneys again! And lets make some of them long... really long.
Fire breathing monsters. Got to have them! So we need an open class that is only regulated by safety.
If we base the whole lot on dirt/mud/shingle then the drivers are forced to adapt and adapt quickly. Bet that will keep drivers and spectators on their toes.
I wouldn’t mind seeing the bottom of cars every so often. So lets throw them up in the air and every once in a while on their roof.
Bugger, someone has already bet us to that sport.
Welcome to the world of Off Road Racing
