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Rally – LDR Daily Blog for 15 July
Last Ditch Racing at the New England Forest Rally Wednesday night and the short tow(3 hours) to our home rally is done and we’ve enjoyed a nice dinner with friends at the local brew pub. I imagine that rallying is like a lot of other sports whose championships cover large geographic areas. We see our rally friends in the context of rallies, but often in the most remote areas of the country. I’m not sure we’d recognize each other if we passed in a shopping mall! War stories are told,…
Read MoreRally – Last Ditch Racing Exclusive Content!
This weekend will see our friends in the Rally America series head to New England for the New England Forest Rally. Last Ditch Racing whom will be competeing in the Open Class has provided us a drivers blog exclusive to Open Paddock that will fully document an event in America’s premier rally championship. You will be able to visit openpaddock.net all weekend long for exclusive updates on how the team is performing and just exactly what it takes to be a rally driver. Last Ditch Racing is based out of…
Read MoreEpisode 00 – Open Paddock Podcast
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download It is with great pleasure that we post our first podcast. This is a pilot episode as we work out the kinks and fiddle with the controls. Please enjoy the commentary and give us your feedback.
Read MoreRally – America Finally Gets WRC Back
In news that has brought tears to my eyes and joy to thousands, the U.S. will finally get the WRC back on the television and it is going to be in HD. It has been a few years since Sebastian Loeb and Marcus Gronholm graced the speed channel and now the WRC’s promoting body the ISC will bring the series back to millions in the U.S. Discovery Channel has picked up the tab for the series and will show coverage on the HD Theatre channel which is one of the…
Read MoreRally – Gronholm to Compete in Rallysprint
Marcus Gronholm will be behind the wheel in Finland after his run at the Pikes Peak event. Gronholm has confirmed he will compete in Finland, but not for the WRC event. Instead, Gronholm will be running a rallysprint knockout competition that takes place at the end of day two of the Rally Finland. It will be in a super special stage setting in which two cars will go head to head and eventually knockout until there is only one remaining. Gronholm will be running a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX for…
Read MoreIndyCar – Toronto Highlights
F1 – German Grand Prix Review
The FIA’s mobile circus went to Germany this week with talk of Nazis, scandal, and of course a breakaway series in the works. Since we don’t really care about any of those things, we will focus on the grand prix that took place instead. Besides, if we wanted to talk about wannabe politicians and failed statesman, we could watch Fox News coverage of the Republican party. As we discussed in the preview, the race was pivotal for the championship and a moment when we could see teams stop work on…
Read MoreIndyCar – Castroneves/Tracy Crash…Judges?
IndyCar – Toronto Review
The IndyCar series travelled into Canada this weekend for a street race that had a lot to live up to after a great weekend at Watkins Glen. Needless to say they had no problem duplicating a brilliant show with possibly the best race so far this year. This race had great passing, strategy, and plenty of controversy to go around. The start of the race was great and Will Power instantly suffered as we seen contact before the green flag that almost sent him a lap down. The race then…
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