Lezersvraag: what motorsport should go to the Olympic Winter games

Posted on 06-02-2014 at 10:58 pm by CasperH – 49 Comments”

The Olympic flame is already in Sochi at the time, but if the flame comes on, there will be no engines roaring. And why not? Therefore, we want to know: what motor racing should be there for the Olympic Winter games?

While the first qualifiers for the ignition of the flame tomorrow night started, we ask ourselves why there is actually no sport part of the Olympic Winter games in Sochi. There are a lot of disciplines in the sport that is the limit of the drivers ask a lot more questions of an athlete than, for example, curling, cross-country skiing or a sleigh. Not that we affect want to participate in the performance of these athletes, but if that kind of stuff the Olympics to achieve, why motorsport?

There are of course a number of obvious options to name a few. IJsracen as in the Trophée Andros Ice Racing series for example, or WRC-like races in the snow. But we would also be for a shorter, better to follow the events can choose such a kind of hillclimb on ski slopes. Drifting on the ice-skating after Sven Kramer and his tricks has done, we see here in the newsroom as well. Or maybe even nicer: with Formula cars on studded tyres a snow-covered circuit rondracen. A nice cup with vehicles on a closed circuit, or cross-country? Let your imagination run wild and think of the hottest autosportvariant for the Olympics!