RALLY – M-Sport Unveils 2015 Livery for Ford Fiesta RS WRC

Mike Shaw

  Today was the unveiling of the newest livery for M-Sport’s Fiesta RS WRC.  M-Sport stated that the design was inspired by Hannu Mikkola’s 1979 Ford Escort RS 1800 MKII and the later 1989 Ford Sierra RS Cosworth of Colin McRae, M-Sport’s new design reflects the Blue Oval’s long and prestigious standing within the sport; a modern twist bringing the colour scheme up-to-date for this year’s young and aspiring drivers. Team Principal Malcolm Wilson said: “When designing this year’s livery we were keen to produce something fresh and exciting whilst celebrating…

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Episode 259 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFrom Tuesday December 30th, this is our final episode of 2014.  In rally we talk about the Rally America rumor mill, a bit of news regarding upcoming Rally Monte Carlo, preview the Dakar Rally (Daily Dakar updates on NBC Sports starting Monday Jan. 5th), and we finish up with the latest of a string of new American Rally Championships that just keep coming out of the woodwork.  This time it’s something called the Extreme American Rally Championship.  In F1 we talk about Haas purchasing…

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Episode 258 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOne of the most fun OpenPaddock episodes in recent history!  In our first hour and headlining the show are our special guests, NASA Rally Sport’s East and West directors Anders Green and Kristopher Marciniak.  NASA is the place for grassroots affordable rally racing, and it has a number of advantages beyond the cost savings.  Anders and Kris tell us all the details of the NASA rally series and how NASAhas the the flexibility to experiment with new technologies like Android tablets for timing/scoring and new racing platforms such as…

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Episode 257 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadReturning after a week away, we finally review F1’s finale at Abu Dhabi and other F1 nonsense.  In rally we talk about the return of Sebastien Loeb, more WRC silly season, and a bit about N. American rally.  We finish up with IndyCar rules changes, and more teams coming to Indy Lights.

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Episode 255 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast

Mike Shaw

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis episode shall be known a “Apocolyptico” as we battled power outages, communications issues, and I even had to step away to fix something at work in the middle.  We ended up with a rally-centric episode beginning with Chris Duplessis talking about his first time driving the Nameless Performance GT-86 in anger at Seed 9 Rally, then we shift to GRC Las Vegas review and preview WRC Wales Rally GB.  Unfortunately the multiple technical difficulties meant that we didn’t have time to talk F1,…

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