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Plans are set. In partnership with Rally America, Driving Sports
will be bringing rally fans the first live video coverage of Round 5 of
the Rally America Championship.
The complete real-time rally experience will be online for the Waste Management
Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally
- Round 5 of the Rally America U.S. Rally Series. Tell your friends! It
will be live and 100% free.
Starting June 5, visit DrivingSports.com's live channel: Click Here.
Click the jump for more information, or visit DrivingSports.com.
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I saw the new WRC2008 being built when I visited Prodrive in the UK last November. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take any pictures or video from that section of the building. Talk about frustration!
Driver Chris Atkinson has been doing very well in the WRC2007, the last chassis which has lasted almost 15 years. Petter Solberg, on the other hand, hasn't had as much luck in the last couple of years with that chassis. Finally, the all-new WRC Impreza will arrive in the flesh and will be put to the test, starting on May 29th, as it competes against the best in the world in Greece at the Acropolis Rally!
Check out SWRT.com for more info.
Continue reading "WRC2008 to make Acropolis Debut!" »
The Oregon Trail Rally has always been known as one of the toughest
events in the Rally America championship calendar, but it’s never been
tougher than this year. Fewer than half the cars entered in the
national points rally this past weekend made it to the finish.
It would be easier to list the teams who didn’t crash and burn, but here’s the casualty list for the weekend. The seemingly unstoppable team of Ken Block and Alessandro Gelsomino were sidelined early with the car stuck on a hillside. The 2006 and 2007 Oregon Trail winners Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant saw their car catch fire in the unseasonal hot weather, taking them out of contention. Pinker’s teammates Tanner Foust and Chrissie Beavis also fell by the wayside, along with two-time PGT Champs Matthew Johnson and Jeremy Wimpey. Sensational young driver Kyle Sarasin and co-driver Mikael Johansson also ended up with a severely bent car and a DNF to show for their trip to the west coast.
Continue reading "2008 Oregon Trail Rally Report" »
Update: 2008 Video Coverage Has Started!
Oregon Trail Rally, one of the best events on the Rally America national series, is kicking off today for an action-packed three days of competition. The fun starts off today with a Parc Exposé in downtown Portland, followed by the start, tomorrow at Portland International Raceway, with competition running through the weekend out of the Hillsboro Fairgrounds and the town of Vernonia. For more information, check out the official site.
I always think it's more enjoyable to watch an event when there's some perspective to go along with it. So, for the first time ever, our sister publication Driving Sports TV is making coverage of the 2007 Oregon Trail Rally available to watch online for free (this is the same feature that ran on Portland television last year.) Just click over to Driving Sports TV and select which segments you want to watch. The full meal deal on the 2007 event is just under 30-minutes long.
Our own Jeff Zurschmeide will be co-driving for Austen Angell in a 1982 Alfa Romeo GTV6.
Subaru Rally Team driver, Travis Pastrana, is up to his usual shenanigans. This time involving a lake and his Suzuki dirtbike. The plan went like this: get the bike up to 70mph, skim along the 5-foot deep section of a lake is Costa Rica and hit the ramp. Just because he could. Thanks to Autoblog for pointing this one out to us. Though Pastrana came through unscathed, his bike has yet to be found. No word on when he's going to try this same stunt with his rally team Subaru.
UPDATE: See the video at CarDomain.com
On our sister-site, Driving Sports, I just posted a long piece about our Silver 2007 Legacy GT project. You know, the one that was featured in the current issue, right before I killed the motor. Though it's mostly an introduction of the car to those readers (not necessarily Subaru owners), it also covers the latest round of changes that immediately followed my blown piston debacle.
Yes, the new motor is in, the car has been tuned and it's back on the road! Thanks to PDX Tuning, Cosworth, Deatschwerks, Pacific Import Auto, Advanced Clutch, Subaru Northwest Region, Perrin and everyone else that really went above-and-beyond to get this car done in time for our pending press deadline. Now, go check out the update! Click here.
The Endura-Tech coilovers tested on our 2007 Legacy GT project in the new issue of Subiesport Magazine are now available to the public. Though the prototypes we used for testing were finished in a golden hue, the final production units follow Endura-Tech’s traditional silver-on-black treatment.
If you’re looking for a Legacy GT coilover that is trackday-ready, but still livable in the “real world,” this is a great choice. The press release follows after the jump.
Continue reading "Endura-Tech LGT Coilovers Now Shipping!" »
It has been a busy few weeks for us at Subiesport. As we put another issue to bed we decided to take a day and take our project cars out to our testing facility. We had all done a fair amount of modifications to our cars so it was time to see how they measured up. My wagon had a new suspension setup and a new clutch, Ryan’s Legacy GT was sporting a new set of coilovers and of course we had the new 2008 WRX project car with to test. It was looking like it would be a full day.
Continue reading "Building New Engines" »
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