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Different Lydden tracks

Hi Will, I am a German motor sports journalist specialised in the FIA European Rallycross Championship (ERC). Between 1978 and 1996 I attended every ERC round at Lydden plus some rounds of the British Rallycross Championship (BRC). About your new map: Here you can see a (lousy!) map of the Rallycross track at Lydden, with its unsealed/unpaved sections (gravel with clay) marked in grey, in your own map marked in brown. Please note the alternative route for the so-called "Joker Lap" between Pilgrims and Chessons Drift (named after Lydden Circuit founder Bill Chesson). As this shortcut has been prepared only about one year ago I wonder if it is already visible via Google Earth. In Rallycross each competitor must use this alternative route only once in his race and it must slow him at least 2 seconds down against the competitors using the original track. The other brown track parts in your map are used for recovery vehicles etc. I do not know if they are all still unsealed/unpaved roads these days. The entire paddock at Lydden is right (or east) of North Bend/Hairy Hill/Paddock Bend and there are no pit areas at all. However, the "pit area" you’ve marked between Dover Slope and the Canterbury Straight is mostly used as area for the Parc Fermé, at least during RX events. The black track (for all kind of Racing) is definitely 1.60 km (about 1 mile) long, not 1.45 km as claimed under your map. The black-brown track (for Rallycross only) was for many a year claimed by the Lydden organisers as being 1.40 km long, the new Lydden rulers have changed that figure down to 1.30 km… RX-Guru (talk) 11:46, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

PS: I forgot to mention that for RX the Finish line is about oposite to the Starting line, as you can see via the above link. For all other kind of racing I don’t know. RX-Guru (talk) 12:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)