During these years contestants arrived on their daily drive cars, took off the equipment they didn’t need in the race itself, changed their tires to multi-paddle and started the race.īack in the day roll-bars were the only requirement but not the complete roll-cage as it is today.
They build these custom Jeeps sporting upwards of 1000hp and nitrous to climb the steep walls of sandpits.
#EXTREME FORMULA OFFROAD DRIVERS#
These guys have to be some of the craziest/bravest drivers in all of motor sports. That’s when Modified Class and Unlimited Class came to exists. Formula Offroad (aka FOFF) is a sport that has always intrigued me. With the advent of LIA 1979 the first Icelandic Championship was held and the first Icelandic Champion was Benedikt Eyjólfsson.Īt the beginning there was only one class but in 1985 the second class was added to the competition because some of the contestants began to drive with multi-paddle tires. Extreme E, the new electric off-road racing series, begins this weekend with its inaugural race, the Desert X Prix, in the deserts of Al-‘Ula, Saudi Arabia. Formula Off Road competition have been a big part of fund-raising for the Rescue Teams throughout the years. With that competition Þorkell Guðnason and fellow members of BKR made the foundation of what we call today a Formula Off Road Championship.īKR kept hosting competition for years to come, but in 1969 The Volunteer Rescue Team Stakkur in Keflavík begun to host Formula Off Road competitions for fund-raising and soon The Volunteer Rescue Team on Hella began to do the same. After that race Egill Gunnar Ingólfsson claimed the title ”First winner of Formula Off road”. The story of ”Formula Off Road” begins in Iceland May 2nd 1965 when the first Formula Off Road competition was hosted by Bifreiðaklúbbur Reykjavíkur a.k.a BKR (Reykjavik’s Car Club).
0 kommentar(er)
