It could cost you £2800 and two years inside, because tyre tracks dig the country’s delicate, lightly grassed volcanic tundra take decades to heal. Unlike, say, the moon or Hollywood Boulevard, nobody will hail you for leaving your imprint here.
This article was originally published on 30 July 2016. We're revisiting a number of Autocar's hottest features to supply engaging content in these challenging times.
But, wonderfully, there's an exception, and it’s called Formula Offroad.
In this sport, mad machines driven by even madder men battle it out over land and water – yes, over water – to compete for the Icelandic Formula Offroad title.
It could cost you £2800 and two years inside, because tyre tracks dig the country’s delicate, lightly grassed volcanic tundra take decades to heal. Unlike, say, the moon or Hollywood Boulevard, nobody will hail you for leaving your imprint here.
It could cost you £2800 and two years inside, because tyre tracks dig the country’s delicate, lightly grassed volcanic tundra take decades to heal. Unlike, say, the moon or Hollywood Boulevard, nobody will hail you for leaving your imprint here.
This article was originally published on 30 July 2016. We're revisiting a number of Autocar's hottest features to supply engaging content in these challenging times.
But, wonderfully, there's an exception, and it’s called Formula Offroad.
In this sport, mad machines driven by even madder men battle it out over land and water – yes, over water – to compete for the Icelandic Formula Offroad title.
In a stark white Land Rover Defender 110, we’re heading for a sunken pit at Hella, an hour east of Reykjavik, for the primary of the 2016 season’s five rounds. We’ll be following the exploits of 25-year-old defending champion Snorri Thor Árnason and his V8-powered beast, christened Choirboy.
I heard Choirboy sing at Árnason’s workshop earlier and immediately grasped the severity of the misnomer. It’s a demonic chainsaw of a noise that might give Aled Jones a moment nosebleed. It’s so loud, fierce and guttural that it'd have caused that bothersome ash cloud in 2010. The engine may be a GM LS3 stroked from 6.2 to 7.0 litres and enriched with an attempt of nitrous that triggers when the throttle is mashed. It can structure to 1000bhp and, at 1100kg, Choirboy may be a flyweight by Formula Offroad standards, with more power per tonne than a Bugatti Chiron.
Lively chief mechanic Gummi Gustafsson explains that there’s a high-pressure pump to defend against bouts of adverse gravity, and therefore the air intake has been relocated to avoid gravel and mud – although he still scoops masonry out by hand between stages.
This article was originally published on 30 July 2016. We're revisiting a number of Autocar's hottest features to supply engaging content in these challenging times.
But, wonderfully, there's an exception, and it’s called Formula Offroad.
In this sport, mad machines driven by even madder men battle it out over land and water – yes, over water – to compete for the Icelandic Formula Offroad title.
In a stark white Land Rover Defender 110, we’re heading for a sunken pit at Hella, an hour east of Reykjavik, for the primary of the 2016 season’s five rounds. We’ll be following the exploits of 25-year-old defending champion Snorri Thor Árnason and his V8-powered beast, christened Choirboy.
I heard Choirboy sing at Árnason’s workshop earlier and immediately grasped the severity of the misnomer. It’s a demonic chainsaw of a noise that might give Aled Jones a moment nosebleed. It’s so loud, fierce and guttural that it'd have caused that bothersome ash cloud in 2010. The engine may be a GM LS3 stroked from 6.2 to 7.0 litres and enriched with an attempt of nitrous that triggers when the throttle is mashed. It can structure to 1000bhp and, at 1100kg, Choirboy may be a flyweight by Formula Offroad standards, with more power per tonne than a Bugatti Chiron.
This article was originally published on 30 July 2016. We're revisiting a number of Autocar's hottest features to supply engaging content in these challenging times.
But, wonderfully, there's an exception, and it’s called Formula Offroad.
In this sport, mad machines driven by even madder men battle it out over land and water – yes, over water – to compete for the Icelandic Formula Offroad title.
It could cost you £2800 and two years inside, because tyre tracks dig the country’s delicate, lightly grassed volcanic tundra take decades to heal. Unlike, say, the moon or Hollywood Boulevard, nobody will hail you for leaving your imprint here.
It could cost you £2800 and two years inside, because tyre tracks dig the country’s delicate, lightly grassed volcanic tundra take decades to heal. Unlike, say, the moon or Hollywood Boulevard, nobody will hail you for leaving your imprint here.
This article was originally published on 30 July 2016. We're revisiting a number of Autocar's hottest features to supply engaging content in these challenging times.
But, wonderfully, there's an exception, and it’s called Formula Offroad.
In this sport, mad machines driven by even madder men battle it out over land and water – yes, over water – to compete for the Icelandic Formula Offroad title.
In a stark white Land Rover Defender 110, we’re heading for a sunken pit at Hella, an hour east of Reykjavik, for the primary of the 2016 season’s five rounds. We’ll be following the exploits of 25-year-old defending champion Snorri Thor Árnason and his V8-powered beast, christened Choirboy.
I heard Choirboy sing at Árnason’s workshop earlier and immediately grasped the severity of the misnomer. It’s a demonic chainsaw of a noise that might give Aled Jones a moment nosebleed. It’s so loud, fierce and guttural that it'd have caused that bothersome ash cloud in 2010. The engine may be a GM LS3 stroked from 6.2 to 7.0 litres and enriched with an attempt of nitrous that triggers when the throttle is mashed. It can structure to 1000bhp and, at 1100kg, Choirboy may be a flyweight by Formula Offroad standards, with more power per tonne than a Bugatti Chiron.
Lively chief mechanic Gummi Gustafsson explains that there’s a high-pressure pump to defend against bouts of adverse gravity, and therefore the air intake has been relocated to avoid gravel and mud – although he still scoops masonry out by hand between stages.
This article was originally published on 30 July 2016. We're revisiting a number of Autocar's hottest features to supply engaging content in these challenging times.
But, wonderfully, there's an exception, and it’s called Formula Offroad.
In this sport, mad machines driven by even madder men battle it out over land and water – yes, over water – to compete for the Icelandic Formula Offroad title.
In a stark white Land Rover Defender 110, we’re heading for a sunken pit at Hella, an hour east of Reykjavik, for the primary of the 2016 season’s five rounds. We’ll be following the exploits of 25-year-old defending champion Snorri Thor Árnason and his V8-powered beast, christened Choirboy.
I heard Choirboy sing at Árnason’s workshop earlier and immediately grasped the severity of the misnomer. It’s a demonic chainsaw of a noise that might give Aled Jones a moment nosebleed. It’s so loud, fierce and guttural that it'd have caused that bothersome ash cloud in 2010. The engine may be a GM LS3 stroked from 6.2 to 7.0 litres and enriched with an attempt of nitrous that triggers when the throttle is mashed. It can structure to 1000bhp and, at 1100kg, Choirboy may be a flyweight by Formula Offroad standards, with more power per tonne than a Bugatti Chiron.
