By Matt Kalish of Matt Kalish Photography Red Bull Global Rallycross is in LA this weekend and that means two things for for the Long Beach waterfront – fast cars and fast driving. But just how fast is fast? I got to find out last month at Red Bull GRC’s Washington D.C. round. I was just a lowly photographer planning on going to the D.C. GRC round to scavenge some work and wax poetically on the nature of burning dinosaurs for sport. Is that writing too heavy handed?…
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Red Bull GRC Returns to DC
This weekend is round 7 of the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship and again takes place at the AFK Stadium in Washington D.C. Open Paddock’s Matt Kalish is at the event getting all the behind the scenes info and periodically sharing posts on our Facebook page. Thanks Matt! This year’s DC track thankfully is nearly twice the size as last year’s track. I like the design, except the dirt (what there is of it) once again is located on a boring straight leading up to and extending after the jump and not…
Read MoreEpisode 277 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPodcast #277 for Tuesday, August 4, 2015 This week we kick off rally with special guest Dillon Van Way former Rally America Super Production Champion who is now competing internationally in the FIA NACAM Rally Championship in Ford Fiesta R2. We also call up our good friend Matt Kalish who was at the Red Bull GRC double header in Detroit. In our F1 segment we talk about the surprisingly interesting race in Hungary, and then we finish off the show with the return of…
Read MoreEpisode 276 – OpenPaddock.net Podcast
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadPodcast #276 for Tuesday, July 21, 2015 In this week’s podcast we kick off with a detailed report from the New England Forest Rally with special media guest Matt Kalish who was at the “Battle of the Titans” event. Matt has done motorsports reporting and photography for Rally America, the Red Bull GRC, and more. Be sure to follow him on Facebook, Twitter, and his web page here. In our Unexplainable Mixed Malgamation of Motorsports Mayhem section, we mourn the loss of Jules Bianchi and opine that the only…
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