Of the three world championships finals which were played on the last weekend of the autumn, the main interest in motorsport fans called, of course, the World Rally Championship Cross. Why?
It's simple — only here the holder of the world title in 2015 have not yet decided. And let chances for the title at the second-ranked Timmy Hansen was purely mathematical, but they were!
But as soon as the global stage rallycross contained the main intrigue, and the fiasco it turned out that it is necessary — the main contender, the current world champion and season leader Petter Solberg still became champion ahead! How did he do it? Now you learn.
Final World Championship rally-cross was held in Argentina. Organizers blundered in the preparation of the road, it was not just a dusty and terrestrial dust! So much so that the organizers of the stage had to take time out and to move the first and second qualifying «hits» on Sunday. That is, in the final stage of the day, participants had to drive four sessions of preliminary heats, two semifinals and finals! An extremely difficult task, but still at a critical stage.
But nothing can be done — as they say, all things being equal. And «hits» have begun!
However, once it became clear that all the efforts of the organizers failed. Dust will not go away — normal visibility was only the leader of arrival, and all others (starting from second place) simply did not see anything.
In these circumstances, the best proven as Andreas Bakkerud. Norwegian pilot Olsbergs MSE team won the first «hit» was the second in the second and fourth in the third.
It simply canceled due to poor track conditions. But that did not stop to hold the first and second semi-finals and final round — strange, of course...
However, at this time the fate of the world title already decided. After three sessions heats Petter Solberg finished fourth and secured a second consecutive championship title.
Timmy Hansen did not help even the second place in the «hits.» As he tried Swede, its backlog was too large. But he was not very upset. The young pilot realized that his chances are negligible and not tuned to fight to the last. The main thing — the fight! But it was enough.
At the end of «hits» in the semi-finals were Bakkerud, Solberg, Timmy Hansen, his younger brother and debutant offset Supercar Kevin Hansen, Robin Larsson, Mattias Ekstrom, Janis Baumanis, Davie Jeanne, Ole Kristian Veybi Anton Marklund, Thomas Heikkinen and Manfred Stohl.
And where is our Timur Timerzyanov? For the Russians on this 2015 season ended. He did not made it to the semifinals, finishing only 17th place.
This once again confirmed Andreas Bakkerud. Leader at the end of «hits» on the start of the first semi-finals fell down and then made a mistake when entering the «Joker-circle» and hit a bump tore a wheel. However, his mistake was not forced — in a dust even strange that he saw something.
The leaders of the arrival in the meantime suddenly found Robin Larsson! In part this was helped by Kevin Hansen. The young rider at the start of «delivered» Mattias Ekström out of turn, but he was able to continue the race and not even lost his position, having remained in the leading group.
So they finished the race: Larsson won, Ekström was second, Hansen Jr. — a third!
In the debut of the second semifinal of arrival clashed recent rivals in the fight for the title of Petter Solberg and Timmy Hansen. From the start of forward he broke the Swede, a Norwegian and then passed him «in a formulaic» slip-stream, and then after the race at «joker-lap» Timmy again stepped forward and was in the lead until the finish.
Petter But such an option is quite satisfied, he does not get involved in unnecessary struggles. He closed the top three winners of arrival Janis Baumanis.
The second race was also marred by a serious accident — and in the same place as in the first semifinal. Anton Marklund made a mistake in the dust and ran into a chipper, «spread out» his Audi S1.
How happy at the end of the semifinal heats Mom Timmy and Kevin Hansen — still, her two boys went final. I wonder, what was her reaction after the final, which crashed into the... Kevin Timmy, bringing the two out of the race!
It all began at the start, where Robin Larsson took the lead, and Timmy Hansen pursued him and looked for opportunities to attack.
In third place came first Janis Baumanis, but later he «ate» Mattias Ekström.
Arrivals to the «Joker-circle» badly turned a group of leaders, but its head was still Larsson — and he finished the race in first position, first victory of his career.
Mattias Ekström failed to beat his countryman and Petter Solberg was satisfied with third place.
Yes, the main intrigue of the World Cup finals in rally-cross resolved early, but the rest — the race was just shine! That's what we love rallycross...
