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Keep the adrenalin pumping with fast gravel sweeps and superb car control on muddy, winding roads that spin onto rough tracks, as this season promises to be a wild medley of hairpins, cuts, and shuddering handbrakes!
Rally Japan
Premiering *Thursday, 6 Oct @ 12mn
Repeat broadcast on 8 October @ 5pm & 9 October @ 6pm
KONICHIWA! Time for an adrenalin pumping session in the land of the rising sun! Revving engines roaring to go, spinning through the gravel strewn roads and the cheers of enthusiastic fans. Welcome to Japan’s World Rally Championship debut. Based in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, the race is set against a beautiful backdrop with fast flowing gravel stages that tend to be unpredictable. Drivers will have to thread their way through narrow gaps in the forests and suffer the temperaments of the Pacific weather streams. It will be great show of skills pit against a thrilling course of uncertainty.
Rallye De France
Preview Episode, Friday, 21 Oct @ 8pm
Repeat broadcast on 22 October @ 1am & 6pm
Premiering *Thursday, 27 Oct @ 12mn
Repeat broadcast on 29 October @ 5pm & 30 October @ 6pm
Put on your seat belts as Rallye de France is a race only for the BRAVE! Taking place in Corsica, drivers will be put through a rough test as the coarse tar roads wear out tyres and the sharp twists and turns leave u gasping. Dirty road surfaces mean that there will be a lack of the all-important grip and friction. Watch them speed and navigate next to sheer drops off the Corsican mountains or scrape into the hard rock faces of the mountain walls. It will definitely be a sight to follow through to the end, watching battered and bruised cars heading for the finishing line!
Rallye De Catalunya
Preview Episode, Friday, 28 Oct @ 8pm
Repeat broadcast on 29 October @ 1am & 6pm
Moving on to Tarragona this year, Rallye de Catalunya is the second sealed surface asphalt event in a row. While experienced drivers will remember some of the stages in the older itineraries, new drivers will be facing a challenge. Smooth wide flowing sections can become gravel strewn hazards as drivers will try to cut corners just to gain speed and fail to get it right. Tarmac grip may become unpredictable as rain may be sporadic compared to the general over enthusiastic
Spanish fans.
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2005 World Rally Championship
August to November 2005
Neste Rally Finland - August 5-7, 2005
Based around Jyvaskyla, the Neste Rally Finland is also popularly known as the Grand Prix of the WRC because of the high speeds on loose, smooth gravel, littered with jumps.
Omv Adac Rallye Deutschland - August 26-28, 2005
Tight hairpins in the vineyards and rough concrete of military grounds combine to present a slippery set of stages where car control is absolutely essential.
Wales Rally Great Britain - September 16-18, 2005
Set in Wales, the Wales Rally Great Britain is one of the wettest rallies on slippery forest-bound gravel. The unpredictable weather and fog make it one of the hardest stages for drivers to navigate.
Rally Japan - September 30 - October 2, 2005
A relatively new event on the WRC calendar and set in the forests of Hokkaido, the Rally Japan is a slippery affair over concrete and asphalt.
Rallye De France - Tour De Corse - October 21-23, 2005
The unforgiving mountains above Ajaccio on Corsica, housing twisty asphalt roads on the side of sheer drops is a challenge only for the most skilful and courageous drivers.
Rallye De Catalunya-Espana - October 28-30, 2005
Based in Catalonia on the Costa Brava, the WRC cars hurtle along fast, pitted mountain roads, while the crowds spill out into the open to support their favourites.
Telstra Rally Australia - November 11-13, 2005
Based around idyllic Perth and Western Australia, the Telstra Rally Australia is a tactical and fast rally on hard gravel, along slippery forests tracks.
AXN Shakedown — Germany
Thursday, 13 October 2005
12mn
Repeat broadcast on 15 October @ 5pm & 16 October @ 6pm
ONLY AT AXN (UBC 19)
Here comes the body-rattling Rally Deutschland! Now, the immaculate car control from the drivers is absolutely critical here as narrow, winding asphalt vineyard roads spin off into rough tank tracks in the Braumholder military! A show not to be missed as drivers fly through this stage that has the widest variety of sealed surfaces.
Even as those menacing kerbstones that border the tracks threaten to rip off corners of the cars screeching round bends least expected, the Rally Deutschland promises to be a never-ending medley of hairpins, cuts, and shuddering handbrakes in the Mosel region, near to the historic city of Trier, Germany’s oldest city!
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