December, the month holiday in motorsport?

Traditionally, December is the quietest period in the middle of motorsport. Printing dictated by the fact that, at the top of the hierarchy, teams of Formula 1 and NASCAR are actually idling. In the case of F1, we speak the same mandatory vacation time imposed in the celebrations at the end of year by the International Automobile Federation to ensure that a team does not perform tests with private its new cars and take well ahead of others.

However, the month of December is the perfect period to see familiar compete for pilot tests for fun or completely different from what they do the rest of the year.

Thus, the "Race of Champions" (ordeal in a stadium in Germany this weekend), the weekend karting Paris-Bercy, a competition that saw this year with the use of electric karts, and preparations of the famous rally-raid "Dakar" are the main tests that take the reveille passionate!