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
Red Bull Global Rallycross is in LA this weekend and that means two things for for the Long Beach waterfront – fast cars and fast driving. But just how fast is fast? I got to find out last month at Red Bull GRC’s Washington D.C. round....
FY Racing's Brenten Kelly will be back in his Subaru this weekend at Ojibwe Forests Rally after a two event competition hiatus. The Open class driver has spent his time outside of a car focusing on his other rally job – lead producer of the FY Racing video series, Inside FY....
This week we kick off rally with special guest Dillon Van Way former Rally America Super Production Champion who is now competing internationally in the FIA NACAM Rally Championship in Ford Fiesta R2. We also call up our good friend Matt Kalish who was at the Red Bull GRC double header in Detroit. In our F1 segment we talk about the surprisingly interesting race in Hungary, and then we finish off the show with the return of Shaun Pechin where we discuss IndyCar’s absence of Derrick Walker and the hometown hero win from the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio....
In this week’s podcast we kick off with a detailed report from the New England Forest Rally with special media guest Matt Kalish who was at the “Battle of the Titans” event. Matt has done motorsports reporting and photography for Rally America, the Red Bull GRC, and more. Be sure to follow him on Facebook, Twitter, and his web page here. In our Unexplainable Mixed Malgamation of Motorsports Mayhem section, we mourn the loss of Jules Bianchi and opine that the only real way to properly honor his passing is with better use of safety cars. In IndyCar we discuss the Iowa Corn Indy 300, which by all means was a great race regardless of what Ed Carpenter thought. And that new ridiculous IndyCar rule, yeah we talk about that too....
Colombian driver Gustavo Yacaman appeared as a surprising entry last month in the 25th anniversary New England Forest Rally, driving a Honda Fit in the B-Spec class. It was a big change for the professional road racer, who usually pilots a Ligier Le Mans Prototype in endurance events -- including this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans....
A number of familiar faces at the New England Forest Rally this weekend are in unfamiliar pairings as a full field of drivers and co-drivers descends on the forests of Maine for the sixth round of the 2015 Rally America National Championship. - See more at: https://web.archive.org/web/20151029084130/http://www.rally-america.com/news/entry/new-teams-and-reunited-pairings-at-nefr#sthash.KZJdmToc.dpuf...
JRD Tuning introduced a new modular rally car concept this weekend at New England Forest Rally that they promise is faster and more affordable than existing options available to rally competitors. - See more at: https://web.archive.org/web/20150912040826/http://www.rally-america.com/news/entry/jrd-introduces-new-modular-rally-car-design-at-nefr#sthash.Mml3oMRP.dpuf...
When a driver named Millen decides to enter a rally in the United States big things are expected to follow. Ryan Millen, son of rally champion Rod and brother of Pike’s Peak legend Rhys has made a name in desert racing, most notably winning the 2014 running of the Baja 1000 in a Toyota Tundra. This weekend, he will compete in his first stage rally with co-driver Christina Fate at Idaho Rally International....
Rally competition returns to the Pacific Northwest this weekend when the Rally America championship travels to the Puget Sound area near Shelton and Matlock for the Olympus Rally, May 16 and 17. Live coverage of the event begins on Twitter Saturday morning at 9 a.m. at www.twitter.com/rally_america....