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
A close battle at the front, massive accidents, and wide-spread attrition made the 2016 Rally in the 100 Acre Wood one to remember. It feels like someone snuck “Do a Barrel Roll (Press Z or R twice)” into the Jemba notes this year. A Red Cross came out twice this weekend, delaying stages, and even more drivers had offs, rolls, and skids. Thankfully, nobody was seriously injured in any of these instances....
The extended wait is finally over. After nearly two months the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood is finally here and it’s looking to be a fantastic event. Rally regulars, off-road specialists, and tarmac professionals will be competing against each other on the Missouri stage roads this weekend. In total, nearly 70 entries are slated to do their best Christopher Robin impressions, a great turnout for the second Rally America national event of the year....
We have a massive show this week starting off with two special guests, Tino Fortunato of the All Fours Rally Team and Nick Roberts of the Nick Roberts Global Rally Team! Then we move on to a preview of the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood, followed by a special review of the rejuvenated British Rally Championship from our good friend Tom Firth in the UK. Then we finish it off with a bit of WRC Mexico. It’s a long show and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we had recording it!...
In this week’s RallyCast we kick things off with special guest Anders Green of NASA Rally Sport! NRS is known for their focus on grassroots rallying, but what you may not know is that they are also technical innovators when it comes to rally timing, scoring, registration, and organization. Anders gives us the lowdown on all their new tech goodness as well as a preview of the upcoming Sandblast Rally which is only 8 days away! Also in the program, Mike and Matt review WRC Sweden and give opinions on the results and the driver safety conundrum that erupted before the race began. Hope you enjoy!...
February 11, 2016 We continue our segregated podcasts with episode #289, what we’re calling the Rally-Cast.  This week for your listening pleasure Doug Patterson joins Mike Shaw and Matt Kalish as we interview special guests Troy Miller and Steve Harrell who showed just how close a rally can be decided, and that sportsmanship among competitors can be more important than a victory.  We also discuss the rest of the results from Sno*Drift as well as other Rally America news.  We finish off with a short preview of WRC Sweden which isn’t looking to be the winter rally we all expected. Listen to the whole episode here. ...
In this episode Jace Tuttle helps review the Mt. Hood Rally while Matt Kalish covers LSPR. We also preview WRC Spain and a few bits of other WRC news. John tells us that Bernie finally admits F1 is broken and Lime Rock Park is fighting to stay in existence. IndyCar, well it’s nothing but more long, long, silly season. We do however have details on what Derek Walker’s plans were before he gave up and stepped away....
Welcome to the final installment of Open Paddock’s Lake Superior Performance Rally Driver Previews. Today we are talking about the top tomatoes – Open Class....
We’re making sure that your knowledge of Rally America teams is up to date in this three part series, so if you’re new to rally or just want to get caught up before LSPR kicks off we’ve got you covered. In case you missed our previous 2WD class preview click here, and be sure to check in tomorrow morning when we’ll be talking about the big guns of Open class....
It’s October and that means one thing in sports. Football season heating up? Call me back in February. Rugby World Cup? America isn’t making it out of Group play, so who cares? MLB Playoffs? What’s a Chase Utley, some kind of dog with a glandular problem? No my friends, it is once again time for the best sport of them all, rally. Specifically, the Lake Superior Performance Rally, the final Rally America National event of the year. And what a rally it is shaping up to be....