If you don’t follow rally racing, then this would be a good time to start. These are the events that rally fans dream about. A final championship battle that wages between great competitors who are willing to go flat out and not conserve anything to be crowned champion. Mother nature threw a bit of a curve ball preventing top speeds, but the battle continues with leaders barely ahead of their rivals. Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block and Craig Drew started first on the road in wet slippery, or as he put…
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Rally America Season Finale – Champions To Be Crowned
It all comes down to this weekend. The final race of the 7 round Rally America Championship season. There is nothing left to conserve. It will be win it or bin it at the Lake Superior Forest Rally on the forest roads outside Houghton, Michigan. Thanks to the Federal Government shutdown taking so long to be resolved, the originally scheduled stages for Friday that were on federal forest lands are no longer available. Instead Saturday’s scheduled stages on private lands are going to be repeated on Friday as well.…
Read MoreReview – 2013 New England Forest Rally
The long summer break for rally in America is over. It had been two months since STPR and teams were more than ready to get back into the action at the New England Forest Rally, the 5th round of the Rally America Championship. As a quick recap, back at STPR Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino finally got the win they had been waiting for all season. Their win came rather easy as his closest rivals weren’t a factor. Antoine L’Estage didn’t have a car to compete in…
Read More2013 Oregon Trail Rally – Day 3
I’m finally getting around to finishing this up. Taking the time off for a rally means having to make it up when you get back. Still very much worth it though! Day 3 of the Oregon Trail Rally is all about speed. Those teams that survived to make it to the final day of the rally would be treated to the open rolling hills east of the Mt. Hood forest. Here the roads are smooth, fast, and flowing with hardly a tree in sight. Drivers should be able to hit…
Read MoreOregon Trail Rally – Preview Part 1
Considering all that is about to go down at the Oregon Trail Rally this year, I’m breaking this up into a couple of articles. To start off with I’ll discuss the event itself, and then I’ll go into the drivers and teams to watch, and I’ll finish with a little bit about what I’m going to be doing as a volunteer and why its great to get involved in rallies in your area. The Oregon Trail Rally is the only 3 day event on the Rally America calendar, and this…
Read MoreReview – 100 Acre Wood Rally 2013
Once again the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood had plenty of action. As everyone descended into Salem, Missouri (or at least attempted to), it wasn’t the teams or the drivers that everyone was talking about, instead it was the weather. On Thursday as everyone went out to do their Recce to adjust their pace notes on the stages, a freak winter storm brought a combination of freezing rain, sleet, and snow. In some places, the icy mix was deeper than the snow in the previous Sno*Drift event in Michigan.…
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