FIA confirms Cape Town's World RX layout
The FIA has revealed then new Killarney World Rallycross Championship circuit at International Raceway complex in Cape Town, The 1.06km track will host the final round of the 2017 World RX championship 11-12 November with the new facility already neading completion
The track will feature a startline on the exit of the existing main circuit's Turn 1 before heading straight into a high-speed braking area for turn one (the regular track's T@), a long right-hander that tightens into a sharp right-hand corner for turn two in the infield. The circuit then changes from sealed to unsealed surface for the first time, quickly followed by a left-hand corner (turn three) before returning to tarmac for a straight run into the tight right-left turns four and five, back onto unsealed surface.
Turn six is a long right-hand corner that tightens, while the joker lap will split left, running around the outside initially on tarmac before tightening into a right-hander (turn 6a), back onto an unsealed surface. The standard and joker laps merge as the circuit re-joins the sealed surface that takes cars into a heavy braking area and the left-right of turn seven and eight, then over the finish line.
“I expect South Africa to become a fantastic event,” two-time World RX Champion Petter Solberg, who announced a new partnership with Johan Kristoffersson and Volkswagen Motorsport for 2017 promised. “What more would a motorsport loving crowd want than a full World RX display of the roughest and fastest cars on the planet racing each other? "I will for sure be there fighting for the season finale win!”
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