Why Formula Offroad is the world’s most extreme motorsport | Autocar

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Believe it or not, off-roading is actually illegal in Iceland – they’ll lock you up. There is an exception, though, in the form of the outrageous Icelandic Formula Offroad Championship. Strapped into home-built mongrel 4x4s making up to 1500bhp, the unhinged drivers battle for the championship at courses across Iceland, attacking vertiginous rock faces and volcanic gravel pits, tearing through quagmires and even hydroplaning across water. It’s a crusade against gravity that has spectacular results, with cars tumbling, sinking and sometimes all but disintegrating along the way. It’s all played out in front of a baying crowd to a soundtrack of hard rock – there’s nothing in motorsport quite like it.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!