Barry McKenna and Leon Jordan of McKenna Motorsport won the 2019 100 Acre Wood Rally this past weekend in an incredibly close finish. The M-Sport Ford Fiesta S2000 drivers bested US rally newcomers Oliver Solberg and Aaron Johnston of Subaru Motorsports USA by a mere 6.8 seconds to earn their first ...
17 March, 2019
There’s more to motorsport than driving. Anyone can win a race or a trophy, but it’s what someone does away from the track that really makes a long-term difference. For co-driver Leanne Junnila, her off-track hours just found an important purpose - she recently became Canada’s representative to the ...
08 March, 2019
Rally cars are some of the wildest vehicles in motorsports. They need to drive at in excess of 130 mph on dirt, fly more than 100 feet through the air and be strong enough to deal with hazards like rocks, trees and river crossings all while remaining road legal and registered. The engineering challe...
01 March, 2019
Lauchlin O'Sullivan surprised many when he entered Climb to the Clouds not in a rally car, but in a specially built hillclimb Subaru STi. CPD Racing USA decided to take a gamble on a newly developed vehicle with a driver new to Climb to the Clouds. ...
Andrew Comrie-Picard, better known by his initialism ACP, and co-driver Jeremy Wimpey will compete at the New England Forest Rally in the recently unveiled Team O’Neil Ford Focus RS. ...
Tim' O'Neil is a living legend at Climb to the Clouds. The President of the American Rally Association set the overall record at Mt. Washington in 1990 while driving an AWD Rallye Volkswagen Golf. Since then, O'Neil has returned Mt. Washington several times, most recently in 2014 where he drove an EVSR electric spec racecar to the summit in 7 minutes 29 seconds. For 2017, O'Neil decided to return to the mountain in a rally car, a freshly minted Focus RS. ...
Travis Pastrana set a brand new record at the Subaru Climb to the Clouds this past weekend, besting the 6:09.09s record set in 2014 by his Subaru Rally Team USA teammate David Higgins. Pastrana set the new benchmark time of 5:46.28s during the morning run session. Three hours later, Pastrana eclipsed his own record by 2 seconds, celebrating with a power slide over the finish line and cementing the new 5:44.72 time as the fastest up Mt. Washington - ever. ...
Teams are set to challenge the full 7.6 mile length of the the Mt. Washington Auto Road today after practicing sections of the course on Friday and Saturday. Teams spent their previous days at Mt. Washington running separate, un-scored, timed practice sessions on the upper and lower half of the mountain. ...
Travis Pastrana set the overall fastest time on the upper half of the Mt. Washington Auto Road yesterday, besting every other competitor on the mountain. Practice session times are not scored for points at hillclimb events, but the 2:30.93 run on the mountain's upper 4 miles is a promising start to the weekend. ...
American Rally Association is happy to announce it will be partnering with the Mt. Washington Auto Road at this year's Climb to the Clouds, July 6 - 9. ARA will be on-site sponsoring the Rally classes while also providing personnel, materiel, and media support to the event throughout the weekend. ...
Welcome back to our long form Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR) review series. Today we're going to talk about the Restricted Open 4WD (RO4WD) class. ...
We're going to be doing our usual post event wrap up a bit differently this week. Instead of doing one large post, we're breaking up our review into several smaller parts where we'll going into a bit more detail. Today, we will appropriately open up our STPR review series with Open 4WD class. ...