The annual Central UP Rally, a NASA Rally Sport series event, runs this weekend near Powers, Michigan. Comprised of 8 stages over 90 miles, this event features fast and wide, hard packed dirt roads, and often very wet conditions. Open Paddock’s own Ian Holmes will be co-driving for Scott Parrot in a Chevy S-10 rally truck. For more information, check out their website and NASA Rally Sport’s event page.
Read MoreAfter showing you how I feel the teams stack up for the start of 2013, I now give you all 22 drivers in the preseason driver power rankings. Please note that during the season we will only give the top 10 ranked drivers as it is frankly a pain the ass to do this for 22 drivers. Especially when we will forget half of them exist in about two weeks’ time! I will give a full update during the three week summer break and will have a full roundup at…
Read MoreThe big gossip over the last day or so is a BBC story linking Honda with McLaren for 2014 or 2015 at the latest. Honda whom used to run a team in the series (now the Mercedes AMG team) is strongly rumored to be making a comeback in the engine department as F1 moves to the turbo V6 for 2014. The Japanese manufacturer has made no official statement regarding their F1 plans, but the McLaren rumor isn’t going away. I think even the rumor shows there is a lot of…
Read MoreTwas the night before Christmas and at Open Paddock All the writers were dining on freshly caught Haddock The stockings were hung on the mantle with twine Cause all of the budget was spent on FCC fines Shaun was snuggled all cozy in bed As visions of Ken Block raced through his head Then Doug with a T-Shirt and Mike with House Shoes Passed Mike Shaw as we all went for a snooze When out in the drive there arose such a noise I instantly knew it had to be…
Read MoreWe have known for quite a while that WRC was coming back to US television on HD Theater, but we haven’t known much about the details. Now we do. On October 4th, HD Theater will air a 6 hour special on the WRC, which will end with a 1-hour wrap up of the 2009 season’s first event, Rally Ireland. The other 5 hours will be dedicated to introducing US fans to the cars, drivers, stages and events of the 2009 season. Following the premiere weekend, HD Theater will show a…
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis week Doug and I are joined by Todd aka Negative Camber to talk about a whole bundle of F1 news. Todd was gracious enough to lend us some smarts on the FIA traveling circus. Doug also does a brilliant job with feeder series. Enjoy!
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