Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Tearing Up The Road Course!


Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Tearing Up The Road Course!

“Adventure is taking inappropriate equipment to out-of-the-way places.” Outside of a meme that is probably ten years old or so, I don’t know who to attribute that particular quote to, but the image of a Suzuki GSX-R fording a stream as if it was a dual-sport motorcycle has always made me grin a little. It’s like watching a Crown Victoria wagon tearing up an autocross or a Chevy truck handing a Hellcat it’s hind end on a drag run…that should’t happen, that shouldn’t work as well as it does, and yet there is something awesome about just seeing that take place. It takes a special mindset to dream up doing something like that, though if you ask the person doing it, dollars to donuts says they just wanted to and did.

This event at Monza isn’t quite in the same vein…after all, Monza offered up the track as a special rally circuit, which is inviting to any car owner. But there is something pretty neat about seeing cars whose main purposes include blistering acceleration, dirt-roosting drifts and crashing like a thrown bowling ball ripping around one of the world’s most prestigious road courses. Sure, the Porsches look right at home, but the psychotic little Renaults and Fords aren’t as…how should we say this…settled in?


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