"Hoccy" (Hoccy)
07/08/2016 at 08:11 • Filed to: Rallycross, WorldRX
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"Hoccy" (Hoccy)
07/08/2016 at 08:11 • Filed to: Rallycross, WorldRX | 3
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Last weekend I visited the World Rallycross round in Höljes, Sweden. I did a guide for what to expect here last year, so I’ll only show a couple of videos and a bunch of photos now.
Not my photo, but one from the promoter.
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Despite it being 20 degrees colder than last year with rain now and then, the presence of Sebastien Loeb and Ken Block contributed to boos the spectator count up to 44 400 this year. Not bad for a place where only 150 people live permanently. Also some of the photos turned during uploading, apologies for that.. They are all turned the correct way on my computer, and I’ve also tried turning them another 90 degrees.. #Kinja’d
Ready to go on Thursday morning.
Camp all set up. It did not look this nice on sunday.
Out camp, with a stereo, fridge and a free sofa straight from the 70's
Lots of room inside the camp for guests. We later moved a not very waterproof tent inside.
This ride was driving around, scraping everywhere.
Typical Höljes caravan.
This Lada actually ran, despite being turned on its side during saturday night.
Volvo VIP ride.
I see nothing wrong with this Passat.
From our view we could see the whole track, with a perfect view of the joker merge
Watching Football in the EKSRX tent.
And finally, a lap from semifinal 2 including Bakkerud and Loeb, among others.
BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> Hoccy
07/08/2016 at 08:44 |
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Wait isn’t Småland the kids place at Ikea? Kinda weird to have beer with the same name.
That camping does look like a large party, especially reading your write up of last year. Are all WorldRX events like this, or is this a bit of an exception?
Cé hé sin
> Hoccy
07/08/2016 at 08:59 |
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There’s a certain Mad Max feel about some of the caravans and cars isn’t there?
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Cé hé sin
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
07/08/2016 at 09:02 |
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Well, that would make sense seeing as how Småland means what it looks like - Small Land. It’s a province of Sweden.
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Hoccy
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
07/08/2016 at 17:42 |
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As the Irishman said: Småland is also an area in Sweden. Their beer was actually both good and cheap, we had 4 trays of it that went quite fast.
Sweden is special, though they have camping in Norway as well it’s not taken to the extreme as it is here.
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Hoccy
> Cé hé sin
07/08/2016 at 17:44 |
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One weekend in Höljes is in fact comparable to surviving an apocalypse.
We ran out of petrol for our power unit...