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Travis Pastrana Gives Dodge Dart First Race Victory
Finally, after a run of bad luck so far this season, everything went right for Travis Pastrana in the fourth round of the 2012 Global RallyCross Championship held at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. Pastrana won his heat in his Red Bull/Discount Tire Dodge Dart edging out Tanner Foust in his Rockstar Energy [...]
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Video: Group B Rally Legends In Action. Legendary!
If you are of a certain age, as I am, then the Group B rally cars of the early 80s are the n’est plus ultra of anything driven by an internal combustion engine on four wheels. Packing unlimited horsepower into econobox based hot hatches with all wheel drive and minimum weight these cars were then [...]
The 2010 Ford Mustang Plays in the Dirt
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – the Ford Mustang is one of the most varied and versatile sports cars on the planet. Find me another car that’s just as sharp on a road course as it is sitting in your sister’s parking space in high school. Or tearing up a handful of [...]
Block Breaks His Own Record at Concord Pond
There’s been a lot of talk about whether Ken Block could stand up against world rally champ 40 times over, Sebastien Loeb. Most of verdicts say Block is nothing more than a showman – good for gymkhana displays of car control and little else. Thing is, when the guy isn’t pimping DC Shoes like they’ll [...]
Stillen’s Rocking Targa Newfoundland
The mad wrenches at Stillen have worked up one helluva Nissan GT-R to tackle this year’s Targa Newfoundland. The team’s doing great so far thanks to a massive amount of testing and R&D pre-race. Leg three finished up yesterday and included everything from wide-open stretches of tarmac to a few technical bits through residential sections. [...]
Video Battle: Gronholm Vs. Millen
Alright, so I know you’ve probably had more Fiesta than any one human should be submitted to, but good Rhys Millen has dropped a video of his record-breaking two wheel-drive Pikes Peak run on the interwebs. The flick is dripping with cinematic ooo-gooeyness, complete with sunrise sideways action. The question is, how does it stack [...]
Video: Marcus Gronholm’s Ford Fiesta Pikes Peak Run
While Marcus Gronholm’s Olsbergs MSE team mate, Andreas Eriksson cut his Pikes Peak attempt short just a couple of miles in, the World Rally Master Champion did complete the course even though a blown turbo just 500 feet shy of the finish scuppered any chance of a win. The good folks at Ford Racing filmed [...]
Video: Ford’s 800 Horse Pikes Peak Fiesta
You know, 800 horsepower is a lot of gusto for a car this size. It’s really easy to rattle off that number without an eye toward just what that means. These days, 800 ponies isn’t all that big of a deal, especially in light of the tuning scene’s ever-present quest for loftier dyno specs. The [...]
Hells Yes: WRC Coverage Returns
I still remember the last time the WRC was broadcast here in the states. The championship was banished to the wee hours of the morning on Speed TV, ousted by more NASCAR coverage than should be humanly possible. I would blow off assignments and take up camp on the couch, viciously defending the remote from [...]
Ford Fiestas To Run X Games Rally With Foust, Deegan, And Brack
The Fiesta Movement takes a new turn at the end of the month when rally prepped versions of the coming-soon-to-America Ford Fiesta enter the fourth running of the X Games Rally Super Special at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA. Three Fords go into battle with the ubiquitous Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi EVOs. The [...]
Video: FMX Star Brian Deegan Makes Rally Debut
The rumor is that Brian Deegan, the most winning medallist in X Games Freestyle Motocross, will be competing in the Rally Super Special at this summer’s event. While still active in Freestyle MX, Deegan has been racing off road trucks, with some success–he scored a win at last week’s round of the Lucas Off Road [...]
Blog on Blog Action: In The Life of Matthew Poppoff
Speaking of rally, if you’ve got some time on your hands and nothing better to do, hop on over to In The Life of Matthew Poppoff. The guy is a wicked motorsports photographer and has a great set of pics from this year’s Oregon Trail Rally. Hop on over to his site to see the [...]
Video: Why We Love Rally
There are as many forms of motorsport out there as there are walks of life on this planet, but for me few come close to matching the marvel of rally. And among those that take it to dirt, gravel, snow and tarmac, nothing says rally like the WRC. Recent years have seen the championship lose [...]
Video: Patrick Sinjers at the 1988 Manx Rally
In the halls of BMW lore, the debate over which M3 is best of them all is never-ending. My personal opinion? The E30 takes the cake. Sure there are faster rigs out there, cars that are more comfortable and more powerful, but the E30 M3 is my cup of tea up one side and down [...]
Dakar Going Back to South America
It looks like we may have to get used to the Paris-Dakar rally having nothing to do with Paris. Or Dakar. The legendary endurance rally is slated to return to South America again next year. The competition will take racers from over 50 countries through 5,300 miles of Atacama Desert and Andes mountain passes. The [...]
Video: Ken Block Gymkhana Two The Infomercial
After much hype Ken Block’s follow up to his mega crazy, super successful, first gymkhana practice video just dropped a few minutes ago on YouTube. Its a little slicker than the first one but still shows Ken’s mad skills and also debuts a clothing line inspired by his rally antics and an all new [...]