Archive for November, 2011

  • Tall Pines: Losier and Laframboise save the weekend

    Tall Pines: Losier and Laframboise save the weekend

    Team PR November 29, 2011 3:14 pm no comments

    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. [...]

     
  • Fine Fifth for Perez after Toughest Safari in Years

    Fine Fifth for Perez after Toughest Safari in Years

    international November 29, 2011 3:00 pm no comments

    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 Wins First National Rally at Tall Pines

    “Crazy” Leo Urlichich Wins First National Rally at Tall Pines

    Event PR November 28, 2011 5:47 pm no comments

    “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 [...]

     
  • David Higgins and Subaru Rally Team USA finish 2nd Overall at 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines

    David Higgins and Subaru Rally Team USA finish 2nd Overall at 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines

    Team PR November 28, 2011 5:38 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • An Almost Perfect 2011 Season for Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard

    An Almost Perfect 2011 Season for Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard

    Team PR November 28, 2011 5:21 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Dirty Rallysport Secures Second Place In The 2011 Atlantic Rally Cup And Looks Ahead to the 2012 Season

    Dirty Rallysport Secures Second Place In The 2011 Atlantic Rally Cup And Looks Ahead to the 2012 Season

    Team PR November 27, 2011 2:30 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Hazardous Animals and More Ice Driving Tips!

    Hazardous Animals and More Ice Driving Tips!

    international November 23, 2011 11:09 am no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Man Flu and Swearing Co-drivers!

    Man Flu and Swearing Co-drivers!

    international November 21, 2011 2:28 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Broken Propshafts And Creepy Crawlies

    Broken Propshafts And Creepy Crawlies

    international November 21, 2011 2:24 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Pre-Event Dramas for Steve Perez Ahead of Classic Return

    Pre-Event Dramas for Steve Perez Ahead of Classic Return

    international November 20, 2011 11:43 am no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • United States Rally Championship 2011 Season Wrap Up

    United States Rally Championship 2011 Season Wrap Up

    Event PR November 17, 2011 1:44 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • An Exclusive Conversation with American 2WD Rally Champion Chris Duplessis on his Experiences at Rally GB

    An Exclusive Conversation with American 2WD Rally Champion Chris Duplessis on his Experiences at Rally GB

    Event PR November 17, 2011 1:41 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Sol Rally Barbados Backs ‘Roger Albert Clark’

    Sol Rally Barbados Backs ‘Roger Albert Clark’

    international November 16, 2011 11:12 am no comments

    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 does it again, four-time Group 2 Champion!

    Chris Greenhouse does it again, four-time Group 2 Champion!

    Team PR November 15, 2011 7:13 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • California Rally Series concludes at the Seed 9 Rally

    California Rally Series concludes at the Seed 9 Rally

    Event PR November 15, 2011 7:12 pm no comments

    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 Pilot of Battle Cross on SPEED TV

    Andrew “ACP” Comrie-Picard Hosts Pilot of Battle Cross on SPEED TV

    Event PR November 15, 2011 7:02 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Pilot for new SPEED TV series stars Subaru Rally Team USA / Vermont SportsCar

    Pilot for new SPEED TV series stars Subaru Rally Team USA / Vermont SportsCar

    Team PR November 15, 2011 7:02 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Holmes and Gallagher Win Overall at the 2011 Seed 9 Rally

    Holmes and Gallagher Win Overall at the 2011 Seed 9 Rally

    Team PR November 14, 2011 12:03 pm no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Cline Racing Sports at SEMA Show 2011

    Cline Racing Sports at SEMA Show 2011

    Team PR November 11, 2011 10:53 am no comments

    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 [...]

     
  • Rally America Champion David Higgins to enter Subaru WRX STI at Canada’s 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines

    Rally America Champion David Higgins to enter Subaru WRX STI at Canada’s 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines

    Team PR November 8, 2011 3:19 pm no comments

    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 [...]