User:Wizly-08/French Rallycross Championship

The French Rallycross Championship is a Rallycross competition created in France by the French Federation of Automobile Sport in 1977 and organized by the French Association of Rallycross Organizers (AFOR). Distributed throughout Metropolitan France, the championship comprises nine closed circuits of approximately 1,000 meters. The dirt/asphalt distribution varies accoring to the circuits but tends towards a majority of dirt. A typical Rallycross circuit has a paved start/ finish straight line of around 100-250 meters, followed by a series of curves and bends. The configuration of the rest of the circuit may vary, however, in principle, the direction of rotation is clockwise. Few circuits turn “upside down” or in the opposite direction, so the majority of turns turn to the right. All the circuits of the championship have a "Joker Lap" (a deviation on the track often slower than the normal layout, favoring the racing strategies) which the driver must take once during the race.

Catégories
The championship is composed of four categories, the noise is limited to 100 dB for all cars :

Supercar
The top category of the championship, these are production cars largely modified in a WRC/R5 spirit, with four-wheel drive and a weight of less than 1,300 kg, they are propelled by a turbocharged 2-litre engine developing between 520 and 550 bhp and 850 N m of torque, the 0 to 100 km/h is on average shot down in less than 2.5 seconds, while their top speed can be more than 235 km/h. The Supercar category is a descendant of Class 2 (cars larger than 1,600 cm3), formerly known as Division 1.