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WRC Live Coverage of Wales Rally GB

November 13, 2014 Mike Shaw

The final event of the World Rally Championship season takes place this weekend. Will you be following? USA On-Air Times for WRC Live – featuring the regular WRC Live crew and special guest reporting from WRC Academy and Super 2000 champ Craig Breen. http://www.wrc.com/live-ticker/live_popup_radio.html Thursday 13 Nov: 11:00 PM Pacific (Friday 2AM Eastern) Friday 14 Nov: 11:15 PM Pacific (Saturday 2:15 AM Eastern) Sunday 16 Nov: 12:00 AM Pacific (Sunday 3:00 AM Eastern) https://plus.wrc.com/ WRC+ Live Powerstage:Sunday 16 Nov: 4:00 AM Pacific (7:00 AM Eastern)

Rally – Mikko Hirvonen Announces Retirement

November 6, 2014November 6, 2014 Mike Shaw

Mikko Hirvonen is one of the fastest drivers and one of the most beloved personalities the World Rally Championship has ever seen. He broke the mold of how most westerners saw Finns, as Mikko was unafraid to show his raw emotions and talk in detail about his successes and failures to the media. He also has one heck of a sense of humor that was well displayed in his travel videos he did with co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen in their first season with Citroen. By far Mikko’s greatest successes came from the…

WRC Live Radio – Rally Spain 2014

October 23, 2014October 25, 2014 Mike Shaw

If you enjoy listening to live coverage with Becs Williams, Colin Clark, and Lisa O’Sullivan like I do, the WRC Live Radio USA on-air times for WRC Spain are as follows: Thursday 9:00 AM Pacific (12:00 PM Noon Eastern) Thursday 11:15 PM Pacific (Friday 2:15 AM Eastern) Friday 11:45 PM Pacific (Saturday 2:45 AM Eastern) Saturday 9:00 PM Pacific (Friday 12:00 AM Eastern) Tune in via wrc.com or via the WRC Android and Apple iTunes apps.

RALLY – Colin Clark’s WRC Australia Preview and “Bingle”

September 11, 2014September 11, 2014 Mike Shaw

The Voice of Rally, Colin Clark entertains us along with fellow WRC Live Radio correspondent George Donaldson with a preview of this weekend’s Rally Australia. [youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/smccH-cHiws”] In addition to the beautiful scenery and wildlife of Eastern Australia, Colin also got an up close and personal taste of the dangers these stages can produce. In a guest ride with none other than 2013’s Rally America 2wd Champion, Brendan Reeves, Colin got a ride he’ll never forget. After a big jump at high speed they go off the road and crash,…

RALLY – WRC.com Launches New WRC+ Service

July 30, 2014July 30, 2014 Mike Shaw

Today WRC Promotor GmbH launched a new WRC+ subscription service. The expanded features include most of what fans have been hoping the free site should have had ages ago. For $4.99(EUR) a month you can get live stage video, on-boards, the full daily highlight shows, and perhaps best of all live maps with tracking of the drivers on stage. WRC+ won’t replace the existing excellent WRC Live Radio coverage provided by Colin, Becs, George, and Lisa, but I think it should enhance the overall experience especially with the live tracking maps. I…

WRC coming to the USA? … Well, Kind of

April 23, 2014 Mike Shaw

Okay, so we aren’t getting a WRC round anytime soon. But on the plus side we are getting a special visitor to USA rallying. The world renowned “Voice of Rally”, Colin Clark of WRC Live Radio, is making his first visit to a rally in the United States next week for the Oregon Trail Rally. The event is thankfully a somewhat convenient stop on his way to the next WRC round in Argentina, and we Oregonians are honored to have him as our special guest! If you don’t already know Colin…

Rally – WRC’s Manufacturing Winner is M-Sport

January 8, 2014January 9, 2014 Mike Shaw

Wait, does that title infer what I think it does? Didn’t Volkswagen win the FIA WRC manufacturers title in a dominant fashion last season? Yes, Volkswagen did win the manufacturer’s title as far as the FIA is concerned, but please note that I said “manufacturing” not “manufacturer” title. First let me be clear, I’m not a Ford fanboy or a Malcolm Wilson fanboy or anything like that. Regardless I think I can make a good case as to why M-Sport is the current rally manufacturing winner even if they don’t…

Rally – Kubica, A Rally Legend in the Making?

January 5, 2014January 7, 2014 Mike Shaw

When Robert Kubica came on to the World Rally Championship scene in the WRC2 category last year, it caused quite a stir. Rally had another former F1 winner coming over to what many of us rally fans deem to be the pinnacle of motorsport. This would help draw considerable attention to rally which has been recovering from a period of lackluster spectator and TV viewer counts. Unlike Raikkonen though, Kubica feels he has unfinished business in Formula 1. Most recall that Kubica’s F1 career was cut short after a nasty…

Episode 213 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

December 18, 2013January 1, 2014 Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMike, Mike, and Doug make one last appearance in 2013 and talk about the few bits of motorsport news that’s around. Formula E seems to have a lot more traction that we expected, Ganassi and Briscoe are reunited, as is Paul Page and IMS radio. Fan Force United returns to Indy Lights, Sutil safe at Sauber, and Kubica confirmed at M-Sport. In each category, we also look back at the best and worst from each segment we cover. It’s been another great year, and…

Episode 212 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

December 14, 2013January 1, 2014 Doug Patterson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn our penultimate show of 2013, Mike, Doug, and Mike continue to be stunned at the enthusiasm shown for the new Formula E all-electric racing series, Panoz sues Nissan (who didn’t see that coming?), and TUSCAR has aero and tire issues with the prototypes. Whitesell leads us through the news in IndyCar and Formula 1, Patterson brings us up to speed on Indy Light’s new chassis and engine for 2015, and Shaw shakes his head at the T&S errors in the WRC and takes…