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RALLY – Subaru Rally Team USA Releases 2015 Car and Livery

Mike Shaw

So we finally have the new livery that Subaru Rally Team USA will be using for the 2015 season.  4 time consecutive Rally America Champion David Higgins and co-Driver Craig Drew will be piloting the new 2015 Subaru WRX STi sedan in the white wintery conditions of the Sno*Drift Rally in Michigan this Friday and Saturday.  Sno*Drift is round 1 of the Rally America National Championship.  Subarus new livery is more dramatic than what they’ve used in the past, but still contains plenty of Subaru Rally Blue.  What do you fans think of it?  Let us…

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Exciting New R-GT Class Is Fan Favorite You Won’t See On TV

Mike Shaw

There were only 3 entrants in the new for 2015 R-GT class and all were essentially the same car (Porsche 911 GT3s).  With the cheers from the crowds you would have thought the battle was much closer than it turned out to be.  That was no matter as these glorious beasts with their musical turbo flat 6 engines reverberated through the canyons and echoed off the mountains filled everyone with joy.  It seems everyone agrees that the new R-GT class is one of the great highlights of the 2015 Rallye…

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Rally America to Launch “RALLY AMERICA RADIO” with Jim Beaver

Mike Shaw

We at Open Paddock have been calling for Rally America to offer some sort of live coverage for a long, long time. The excitement of an event is easily lost due to time, so interviewing at stage ends when drivers are quite honestly the most emotional after a tough stage is what adds drama and excitement to rallying. Today Rally America announced it will be working with Jim Beaver of the “Down and Dirty Radio Show” to pull off this new Rally America Radio program. Jim’s Down and Dirty Radio…

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RALLY – Dakar Stage 13 w/ Robby Gordon

John Olsakovsky

The Dakar Rally has been over for not quite a week now, and already the media arm of Robby Gordon’s off-road truck empire, Team Speed, has produced this very cool video of the final stage, which he won in the car class. It never ceases to amaze me how much control these drivers have when they appear to be completely out of control.  About 2:20 into the video, Robby bicycles the truck on a sharp left-hander, rights the truck and carries on, ultimately winning the stage. The video is mostly…

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WRC – Sebastien Loeb Returns to Rallye Monte Carlo in Dominant Fashion

Mike Shaw

Nine times World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb didn’t quite start the week’s event the way everyone expected.  Word on social media was that he actually slid off the road and wrecked his recce car.  No matter though, because by late afternoon he showed who was boss of the Monte by laying down the fastest shakedown time of the bunch on his very first run.  Granted this is far from determining who will win the entire rally, especially with tire choices being the primary element deciding the victor.  Be that as it may,…

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Higgins Tests New 2015 Subaru STI Rally Car

Mike Shaw

David Higgins has been shaking down the new 2015 Subaru WRX STI sedan rally car at Team O’Neil Rally School in New Hampshire.  This is the new generation vehicle for Vermont Sportscar and Subaru Rally Team USA that 4 time consecutive Rally America Champions David Higgins and Craig Drew hope to take to an unprecedented 5th title this season.  I’ve been hearing that it might also get a new wide-body kit added to it when the official launch and new livery is introduced, but even like this it looks pretty damn…

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WRC Rally Monte Carlo – USA On Air Times

Mike Shaw

For those that have MAVTV or WRC+, the opening round of the World Rally Championship at Rallye Monte-Carlo will offer Live TV coverage of 3 of this weekend’s stages. WRC+ users will also get the traditional daily highlight programs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday while MAVTV will air those at some later date (not sure when yet). In addition to the TV coverage there is also our favorite reporters working all day on WRC Live Radio to give us instant results at the end of every stage. Schedules are below. Live Stages:…

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WRC – Liveries, Liveries, and More Liveries

Mike Shaw

You get a new livery, and you get a new livery, and you get a new livery….it’s that Oprah Winfrey Show time of year where all the major teams release their “New Look” for the 2015 season.  Since every car in the modern WRC has the exact same profile, the teams have to do something to stand out.  I have to tip my hat to both M-Sport and VW for the most dramatic of designs, however one must wonder whether the two teams somehow collaborated before coming up with their…

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