The 6th and last round of the Canadian Rally Championship took place last weekend out of Bancroft, Ontario. The Rally of the Tall Pines kept its legendary reputation of being a survival of the fittest with more than half the field of 60 cars having to retire with mechanical problems. [...]
After nine tortuous days of action, Kick Energy driver Steve Perez has completed the 2011 East African Classic Safari Rally in a very creditable fifth position which is particularly impressive given this year’s world famous marathon has been considered as one of the toughest in recent years. After torrential rains [...]
“Crazy” Leo Urlichich (Thornhill, ON) and co-driver Martin Brady (Meath, Ireland) beat a record breaking number of entries at the 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines, their first win at a Canadian Rally Championship event. Competition was extremely strong, with main CRC rivals Pat Richard (Squamish, BC) and Antoine L’Estage [...]
Subaru Rally Team USA driver David Higgins has finished 2nd Overall at the hotly contested 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines in Bancroft, Ontario. Higgins and the Subaru Rally Team USA squad attended the Tall Pines Rally, the final round of the Canadian Rally Championship, to test various development components [...]
Antoine L’Estage (of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC) and co-driver Nathalie Richard (of Halifax, Nova Scotia) contested this weekend’s Rally of the Tall Pines, the final round of the 2011 Canadian and North American rally championships. After dominating the first four competitive stages and building up an impressive lead at the top of [...]
Second overall driver and codriver awards in the NASA Rally Sport Atlantic Rally Cup. The Atlantic Rally Cup, spanning events in both Canada and the United States, covers all types of off road surfaces and conditions: sand, dirt, tarmac and gravel. Finishing 2nd in the championship in the grueling multinational [...]
A good third day of the 2011 Kenya Airways East African Classic Safari Rally saw the Kick Energy Datsun 260Z of Steve Perez and Staffan Parmander successfully avoid a number of incidents with a variety of animals to set a string of top ten times. The opening stage of the [...]
Day two of the 2011 East African Classic Safari Rally was a better day for the Vodka Kick Datsun 260Z of Steve Perez and Staffan Parmander as the pair avoided drama to record clean runs on both of the stages run today. After the time loss incurred on the opening [...]
Vodka Kick driver Steve Perez might have lost over an hour and a half during the course of today’s three stages but the Chesterfield based rally driver was just relieved to complete the first day of this year’s East African Classic Safari Rally after mechanical dramas and run-ins with the [...]
As Vodka Kick driver Steve Perez returns to Kenya, the cradle of mankind in East Africa, the Chesterfield-based multiple rally champion is acutely aware of both the highs and the lows that the forthcoming Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally can offer. Steve and Swedish co-driver Staffan Parmander have [...]
The United States Rally Championship wrapped up at the International Rally New York in October and crowned new champions in the AWD and 2WD categories. 131 competitors, drivers and codrivers, participated in the 2011 Championship. Mitch Williams and Alix Hakala from Colorado made a strong early season run at the [...]
Three-time American 2WD Rally Champion Chris Duplessis last week had his first taste of World Rally Championship competition last weekend in Wales at Rally Great Britain. The experience wasn’t completely a good one. He rolled the R2 ford Fiesta while in fourth place on Day 2 in the event. Tech [...]
From Wales to the Caribbean . . . via Dubai and Spain! The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has made an early start on its International promotion for Sol Rally Barbados 2012 (June 9/10) by announcing that the winners of next month’s Roger Albert Clark Rally, Britain’s most demanding historic event, [...]
Chris Greenhouse has made it four in a row. The Weasel RallySports team driver has won the 2011 RallyAmerica Central Region Group 2 championship for the fourth consecutive year. Piloting his Plymouth Neon, he took class wins at Sno* Regional, Tresspasser’s Wil, Finger Lakes, and Sherwood Forest rallies. He also [...]
Thirteen teams took the start of the Seed 9 rally on November 5, 2011, based in Jean, NV. The rally consisted of thirty-five miles of dirt roads, starting in the afternoon and finishing after nightfall. Seed 9 marked the return of Bill Holmes and Sean Gallagher in a new large-displacement [...]
Andrew “ACP” Comrie-Picard hosts the pilot of Battle Cross, a new action television show premiering on SPEED TV on November 17 at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific. The high-energy, action-packed show features two pro drivers battling for best time and style on a stunt course laid out by ACP and tested [...]
Subaru Rally Team USA drivers David Higgins and Dave Mirra star in the pilot of Battle Cross, a new highly-anticipated television show scheduled on SPEED TV on November 17 at 10pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific. The concept for the high-energy, action-packed Battle Cross series revolves around pitting two professional drivers on [...]
Bill Holmes of Malibu, CA and Sean Gallagher of Santa Ana, CA take the Overall win in their 2011 Ford Raptor at the 2011 Seed 9 Rally November 5, 2011 in Jean, NV. This was the first event with the new Ford Raptor Rally Truck. The team of Holmes/Gallagher won [...]
Calendar of events announced, new look and specs for the car Cline Racing Sports have once again renewed their contract with Exedy Racing Clutch to compete in 2012 Rally America National Championship Series. The news was announced at the 2011 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, NV where Evan Cline displays [...]
Subaru Rally Team USA (SRT USA) has announced today they will enter team driver David Higgins at legendary Rally of the Tall Pines, the sixth and final round of the 2011 Canadian Rally Championship. Higgins will drive the same 2011 Subaru WRX STI that he piloted to this year’s Rally [...]
Cline aims high for 2012
Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard – New Rally Season, New Rally Car
David Higgins to Defend Rally America Crown With Subaru Rally Team USA in 2012 Championship
Sterckx Rally Sport Team Enters Rally America Championship
NASA Rally Sport Releases Smartphone App for Rally Spectators
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