Hello everybody

[FullThrottleVids]

Hi, my name is Sven and I joined this community to share my videos, apparently I have to post 15 times before I can post a link so I'll have to spam the place a bit :D . I make 1080p videos from the Belgian rally championship, regional rallies in Belgium, Belgium autocross championship (autocross=autograss) and occasionaly a hill climb race, rally cross, circuit race or slalom. This sunday I'll be filming at the European Hill Race in Eschdorf (Luxemburg) so please visit my Youtube channel: FullThrottleVids.

[D-Type]

welcome to the forum but can I make two points:

(1) In English the word 'race' is not used for a hillclimb, sprint or rally. Essentially a race is one car against another not a series of cars competing individually against the clock. I know this is not the case in some other languages.

(2) The moderators have their hands full dealing with real spam. Posting spammy posts will not make us happy. If, on the other hand, you make a positive contribution to the discussion threads you will be welcome

[FullThrottleVids]

welcome to the forum but can I make two points:

(1) In English the word 'race' is not used for a hillclimb, sprint or rally. Essentially a race is one car against another not a series of cars competing individually against the clock. I know this is not the case in some other languages.

(2) The moderators have their hands full dealing with real spam. Posting spammy posts will not make us happy. If, on the other hand, you make a positive contribution to the discussion threads you will be welcome
Well, it's called: "European Hill Race Eschdorf" and it's a hillclimb (competing against the clock), next time I'll use a dictionary when I type something here + I wasn't serious about posting spam on this forum that's why I used the smiley, thank you for the very warm welcome.

[D-Type]

"European Hill Race Eschdorf" reads to me like a literal translation from another language - possibly German where 'Berg Rennen' means 'hillclimb' in English not "hill race". (Or is it Flemish?)

Trust me.

In English a hillclimb is not called a race. It is a competition where cars compete to set the fastest time over a course running individually. They do not compete to cover the same course faster than a car that starts at the same time - that would be a race.
A sprint (which is effectively a flat hillclimb) is not called a race either. At a dragstrip where two cars compete side by side it is called a 'drag race'.
As for rallies, In Britain there are legal implications in calling them 'races' as holding a race on public roads is totally illegal unless it has been specifically allowed by an Act of Parliament allowing the roads to be closed (as the Birmingham F5000 races were). Special stages on private land are legal as they are not on the public highway.
The difference is subtle as events like the [original] Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio, the Giro de Sicilia and the Carrera Panamericana were always considered to be races, but the Liege-Rome Liege, Liege-Sofia-Liege or Marathon de la Route has always been considered to be a rally. When it moved to being 84 hours around the Nurburgring it became a regulatory trial and not a race. The Mille Miglia from 1958 to 1961 and in it's historical guise and the Targa Florio from 1978 are rallies not races.

[FullThrottleVids]

Yes, I believe you, but you have to understand that mistakes are easily made by people whose native language isn't English (like me) so you don't have to "attack" them for minor mistakes like this, but OK, thank you for teaching me this :) and by the way that hill climb is in the Gand Duchy of Luxemburg so it's either a translation from German, French or Letzeburgs. In my language (Flemish, which is actually Dutch with a different accent and here and there some other words) a hill climb is called: klimkoers, literally translated: climb race.

[D-Type]

Sorry if you felt it was an "attack" - I was simply trying to correct what you had said.

[FullThrottleVids]

It's OK, I might have overreacted a bit :s