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Miller Motorsport Park, Salt Lake City, UT - Hot. That is the word for GTLive; hot girls, hot action and hot cars, literally. Overheating seems to be the word on the tip of most teams’ lips as the ambient soars towards 100 degrees with the track temp about 20 degrees higher.
Most of the top Subaru Time Attack teams are here including Richard Garcia and the DynoComp STI, Crawford Performance and their “Skunkworks” 2008 STI with Tarzan Yamada at the helm, and even the dynamic duo GC-based cars of TopSpeed and GST Motorsports.
Continue reading "GTLive, Hot Girls, Hot Cars, Hot Pavement" »
Travis and I are heading down the highway at the crack of dawn on Thursday. Destination: GT Live at Miller Motorsport Park in Utah. We'll be rolling in a 2008 Subaru Outback Sport. I've driven lots of the standard Impreza variants, but this one is suprisingly well equipped for the starting price of $19,995 (ours has an auto-tranny and other goodies bringing it closer to $22k.) For an added road trip bonus, it drinks the cheap gas! If we make it back in one piece you'll read more about our trip and this particular rig in a future issue of the magazine.
Subscribers have already started to receive our latest issue, number 22. This one will really please Legacy fans. And, even if you're more of a WRX or STI guy (or gal) just remember that almost everything do-able to a LGT also applies to you! We cover the complete new motor that went into my personal 2007 Legacy GT project, along with a new Perrin Performance front-mount intercooler and even super-sizing the turbo to a fat AVO 420 (which also is a bolt-on for the the 2008 WRX).
On the cover is the awesome orange 2008 WRX built by Harman Motive, along with AEM and SPT. It first made an appearance at the 2007 SEMA Show in Las Vegas and is all sorts of cool. Creative paint job, nice interior and lots of go-fast bits under the hood.
If you like the older, "original" Legacy, you'll love the cherry Legacy Sport Sedan we found roaming around Australia. Of course, they call them Liberties down there, but it's basically the same thing -- only the USDM model didn't ship with an intercooler.
Moving just a few more years forward in the model range and you'll find the final feature on our project from hell: the 1997 Legacy GT SEMA Project we did along with Royal Purple. Now, the guys at RP were awesome the whole way, but the car -- it had other plans. Pick up the issue for all the gruesome details. Oh, and go buy some Royal Purple synth oils. Not only is it good stuff, the guys over there absolutely love Subarus.
For more details on this issue, head over to our official company store, www.carzines.com to read about it, or to buy a physical copy (it will also be on newsstands by July). Also, don't forget, you can preview 15 pages completely free in our digital edition (just click Preview when prompted for a password.)
For a replay of Driving Sports' Live coverage of STPR 2008, click here. Live coverage sponsored by Perrin Performance.
If the Rally America teams thought their trials and tribulations were safely left behind in Oregon, they received a rude awakening at this week’s Waste Management Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally. “Waste management” was an appropriate name for the event, as the destruction tour that is the 2008 Rally America season continued at full throttle.
Starting from the top of the seed list, Subaru Rally Team USA arrived with two new 2008 STI hatchbacks. The new rally machines showed up straight from the shop, apparently without much testing time to shake the bugs out. This may prove to be the team’s undoing for the year, because before the paint was even dry the rear suspensions on both cars failed in spectacular fashion.
The early season juggernaut of Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino sputtered to a halt in Oregon with a DNF, and faltered again on stage 2 in Pennsylvania. According to rally control reports, the rear lower control arms failed and left the former points leaders stranded by the side of the road. This ended their national hopes for the weekend, but the veteran rallyists came back to contest the regional event the next day. Oregon Trail winner Travis Pastrana and co-driver Derek Ringer experienced similar troubles on stage 2, but made it back to service for repairs and were not time-barred.
Continue reading "Tough Times at STPR 2008" »
Redmond, WA (PRWEB) June 2, 2008 -- Driving Sports today announced that
it would be presenting live worldwide coverage of the 2008 Waste
Management Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally presented by Citizen's
and Northern Bank, Round 5 in the Rally America Championship series,
scheduled for June 6th and 7th.
As part of this groundbreaking coverage, Driving Sports will present live video streams, a dynamic event blog, cell phone SMS alerts and daily action recaps through its web site www.drivingsports.com. This will be the first time a Rally America regular series round has featured such extensive live coverage. The event is a crucial step for competitors as they fight for coveted invitations to the 2008 ESPN X Games in Los Angeles.
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