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Bit later than planned, but finally got my photos from the first round of the European Rallycross Championship posted, as held at (the very not sunny) Lydden Hill.

The weather started bad on Sunday, with showers and fog...



...before turning to total crap on Monday. Needed more than that to stop me though!

Super 1600's line up, the 2012 season about to kick off...





Foust on his way to victory, his drive in the “A” Final was pretty much flawless.



Koutny attempts a reverse corner entry:





Jeanney coming in hot. I actually thought he’d messed up and was going to stuff the car in front of me, but he skimmed the inside of the bend a couple of times: very awesome!

















Somewhere in this picture is a DS3:







Some drivers just couldn't wait for the racing to start before they started exchanging paint...



















Having nearly wiped me and a marshall out, Koutny recovers his car, this gives you an idea how swampy the dirt sections got.





Pat Doran was one of several UK hopefuls who didn't have a great weekend, with multiple turbo changes required.







This was a pretty common sight over the course of the weekend. By the end of racing on Monday all the Marshall posts had piles of recovered car parts beside them.









Many tyres were killed over the course of the weekend:









Following the completion of qualification it was announced that Liam Doran had been disqualified due to his car running an illegal spoiler...



...needless to say some very rapid adjustments were made to get the car legit and back out in time for the heats.







Unsurprisingly the dismal weather meant the obligatory Monster girls were showing a bit less flesh...



...(should have got some Northern birds in, they don't feel the cold).