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Why Formula Offroad is the world's most extreme motorsport - Autocar

Why Formula Offroad is the world's most extreme motorsport - Autocar

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1
Believe it or not, off-roading is actually illegal in Iceland - they'll lock you up. There is an exception, though, in the form of the outrageous Icelandic Formula Offroad Championship. Strapped into home-built mongrel 4x4s making up to 1500bhp, the unhinged drivers battle for the championship at courses across Iceland, attacking vertiginous rock faces and volcanic gravel pits, tearing through quagmires and even hydroplaning across water. It's a crusade against gravity that has spectacular results, with cars tumbling, sinking and sometimes all but disintegrating along the way. It's all played out in front of a baying crowd to a soundtrack of hard rock - there's nothing in motorsport quite like it. We join 25-year-old defending champion Snorri Thor -rnason and his nitrous-boosted 7. 0-litre V8-powered creation, Choirboy, for one of the most challenging weekends of the season at Hella in southern Iceland. He's the man to beat and perfectly placed to give us an inside view of what it takes to conquer Hella's treacherous terrain - not to mention its deep, icy river. Read the full story on the Autocar website: Additional footage provided courtesy of Jakob Hafsteinsson - visit his Icelandic motorsport channel at www. youtube. com/jakobcecil and his Facebook page at www. facebook. com/jakobcoffroad. Thanks to Snorri Thor -rnason, Gummi Gustafsson, Gu-bj-rn Gr-msson, Tryggvi Thordarson and Europcar Iceland (www. europcar. is. For the Icelandic Formula Off-road schedule, look for 'Torf-ra' at www. akis. is/motahald/keppnisdagatal. Find information about visiting Iceland at www. iceland. is and www. south. is. Watch next: Land Rover Defender vs Atlantic Ocean
Date: 2022-04-17

Comments and reviews: 8


Most extreme, maybe. Not the most exciting to watch tho.
Isle of Man TT is insanity disguised as a race and it's extreme in a sense that all it takes is a mistake for you to crash into a tree at 200 mph or 320 kph, which is instant death for bikers; any WEC race with the LMP1 cars are insane as well just for the acceleration and speed cornering (which is a lot nicer to watch than F1 imo) and you also have the Formula E which is hilarious because the drivers are the definition of scumbag at times: D
Anyhow, I can see why some people watch and enjoy this.

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so driving offroad while sitting in a steel box is more dangerous than riding 200mph on a vehicle with two wheels where you sit right on top of the fuel tank? ever heard of Isle of man?
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It's hard to make the sport sound boring, but this commentator managed to do just that. What self respecting Motorsport journo passes on the chance to go for a ride in one of these beasts?
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the US has its own version of this, in the southern states they have rock bouncer competitions which is essentially this but instead of dirt they climb up rock slopes
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stuff like this make me proud to be a human. Look at all the crazy shit we do to conquer whatever the hell is out there with machines we build.
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This is absolutely wild, I luv this s---! Got some great footage on -H Bomb Baby-, but for my next song video this crazy stuff has gotta be in!
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It is not twice as steep as the worlds steepest public road. Kirkstone pass in England is 33% and there's way steeper ones than that.
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illegal? if i lived there kill me now. id have to move away no matter how good anything else there was with no off-roading
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