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
The third round of the Rally America National Championship is underway in Oregon. Following a fan-pleasing evening of opening stages at the Portland International Raceway on Friday, the action moves to the Columbia River Gorge area for two more days of challenging competition on the region’s wildly variable terrain....
Travis Pastrana currently leads Subaru Rally Team USA teammate David Higgins by 14.2 seconds after two days of competition in the Pacific Northwest. The battle is close, with three of yesterday’s stages being decided by under a second. “It felt awesome,” said Pastrana. ...
Subaru Rally Team USA driver Travis Pastrana finished the first day of the Oregon Trail Rally with a 12.7 second lead over teammate David Higgins. The national teams only ran stages 3 and 4 last night after an incident involving a lower seeded competitor forced the cancellation of the night's first loop. ...
The American Rally Association heads to the Pacific Northwest for the Oregon Trail Rally, April 21-23. The three day event features a variety of surfaces, mixing dirt, gravel, and tarmac with high speeds to test even the most skilled drivers. Adding to the challenge this year, heavy rains have turned normally dry dusty stages to mud. ...
ECD NY driver Barry McKenna confirmed today that he will compete in the 2017 Oregon Trail Rally, along with the remainder of the American Rally Association championship, in an M-Sport built Ford Fiesta S2000. The Irish driver, best known for sideways driving in a MKII Ford Escort, will step up into the AWD Open Class Fiesta and compete at the highest level in ARA. ...
This is episode one of our new “In The Paddock” interview series. This week we chat with Anders Green of NASA Rally Sport just before this weekend’s Sandblast rally. He tells us about the latest NRS tech, including details of a new digital route book app they just launched yesterday....
In this episode Mike, Ian,and Matt review WRC Sweden and then at the 1:04 mark we turn our attention to the first event of the new American Rally Association, Rallye Perce-Neige which ran alongside the Canadian Rally Championship. We close with Ian describing how he ended up drinking large amounts of alcohol out of a boot....
Subaru Rally Team USA driver David Higgins and co-driver Craig Drew celebrated a hard fought victory on Saturday. The pair faced down strong challenges on multiple fronts but managed to stave off the bad luck and major mechanical issues that befell their close competition. ...
This week Mike, Ian, Matt, and Doug go over all the drama that was the Dakar Rally and we preview the much anticipated 2017 WRC season starter at Monte Carlo....