{"id":5939,"date":"2011-09-16T22:38:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/16\/how-it-started\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:38:00","slug":"how-it-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/2011\/09\/16\/how-it-started\/","title":{"rendered":"How it started !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dirk and Luc were planning to pick up rallying again since quite a while. Dirk wanted to say karting goodbye because father and trainingpartner Denis had some health issues. The karts were sold and a new adventure was born&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dirk and Luc were argueing about he make and model of the car before finding a compromise but the mean idea to start a rally team both agreed on.<\/p>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-6170 .fg-image { width: 150px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-6170 { --fg-gutter: 10px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-default foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-default fg-ready fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-6170\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/09_Opgeladen.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8576\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2011\/09\/09_Opgeladen\/383273422.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/16_Tussen_stop_op_een_parking_voor_een_koffie_en_om_de_verankering_te_checken.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8578\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2011\/09\/16_Tussen_stop_op_een_parking_voor_een_koffie_en_om_de_verankering_te_checken\/4198180998.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/18_Eerste_meters_achteruit_met_de_co_aan_het_stuur.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8580\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2011\/09\/18_Eerste_meters_achteruit_met_de_co_aan_het_stuur\/279628409.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/22_Klaar_voor_de_volgende_faze.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8582\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2011\/09\/22_Klaar_voor_de_volgende_faze\/3782548653.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22150%22%20height%3D%22150%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20150%20150%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><!--more-->\n<p>The mean criterium was a car with a high fun level !<\/p>\n<p>Dirk thought that there were no other cars then Renaults. All possible models like a A110, R8 Gordini , a R5 Turbo,&#8230; were considered but they proved to be rare or unaffordable. <\/p>\n<p>Luc was looking towards a BMW 2002 model (E10) just what BMW addict Frank liked most !<\/p>\n<p>After a few days and night of searching the web a list of 2002&#8217;s was made..<\/p>\n<p>Dirk was not happy to see al the rust on those cars and started to look again at soem Renaults&#8230; (note : Dirks father had been a Renault dealer for many years and Dirk was brainwashed during his youth..)<\/p>\n<p>Dirk came up with a Clio R3 but the running costs proved to be very high&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No white smoke yet !<\/p>\n<p>Luc used to co-drive Wim Coremans with a rear wheel drive BMW E30 M3 and became a fan of this type of car&#8230; Dirk agreed (although is wasn&#8217;t a Renault) and the search was redirected to a BMW M3.<\/p>\n<p>E30 M3&#8217;s are getting hard to find but after an extensive search we found a suitable car in Holland to work on. This was october 2010.<\/p>\n<p>R-box was founded in that same period and in November R-Box was made offical. A few die hards started the team and are until 2014 still on board.<\/p>\r\n                            \r\n                            ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirk and Luc were planning to pick up rallying again since quite a while. Dirk wanted to say karting goodbye because father and trainingpartner Denis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawO0n-1xN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-box.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}