The A Main final from the Euro Indoor, in Laon, France. Jerome Sartel took the win. Please stick with the video, my autofocus was not happy with the dust and smoke but the racing is fantastic. 1:30 - 2:30 where Jerome Sartel and Yannick Aigoin fight is awesome, and there are two further camera angles within the video.
*Check out photos I just uploaded of this race also: http://www.glypo.com
I can never figure out why Euro tracks cover up perfectly good dirt with carpet. Like most Euro tracks, it's pretty much an on road race track with a hump of dirt in the middle.
thetinmanomaha 4 years ago
Only 5 metres of the track is covered? In Europe off-road is off-road, runing on loose stuff, mud, clay, grass, concrete, astroturf and all sorts. Loose dirt jumps fall apart when they are used, hence Euro tracks need to sometimes cover the jumps. Simple solution.
US tracks are actually much more like on-road, with super hard compacted stuff which is nothing like real off-road conditions. How often when you head out into the country do you find hard packed dirt with perfectly formed jumps?
glypo 4 years ago
I used to own and operate an indoor off road track. We spent a lot of time, money and effort to pack the track into "blue groove" conditions so that you wouldn't waste all of your driving talent and setup skills slippin and slidin around. Plus there wasn't much dust in the air. LOL! Loose and dusty tracks eventually wear down into a single preferred groove, which makes passing either difficult or stupid. Why not just water the track?
thetinmanomaha 4 years ago
That's exactly the point. Yes this race was crap for dust, but the NeoInvitational meetings at Harper Adams/DXR is very much U.S. style hard packed blue groove, so it does happen in Europe.
Most Europeans tracks don't want the whole blue groove thing. It's completely irrelevant with skill. Less grip actually demands much more skill, and it's one reason British drivers are winning stuff worldwide all the time :-)
glypo 4 years ago
I'm not saying in anyway one is better than the other. I just went to France to cover the race for Neo-Buggy, but I live in the UK where we are lucky to have all sorts, including U.S. style tracks which I personally love. (but nothing beats 1/10th indoor carpet off-road for me! Check my other video [Newbury race])I know from interviewing U.S. drivers they find it very difficult in Europe sometimes as a lot of the tracks have much less grip then the hard packed U.S. Is real off-road high grip?
glypo 4 years ago