What To See in 2009 [ January 6th, 2009 ] By: Charles Smith Posted in » Ramblings

New Years bring new seasons of racing, new cars, new toys and new feats of engineering. There is plenty to look forward to in what is going to be a great year.

In contrast with Subaru leaving the WRC, American leagues (NASA and RA) will still feature Subarus as their most common race car (and possibly still their winningest).  With DIRT’s possible new entries into the sport such as their ProjectRS you’ll have plenty of new Subarus in NASA. 

Fans of Petter Solberg will hopefully be able to watch his driving, albeit in most-likely a non Subaru as he is now a free agent. Rally Norway has even extended its entry deadline for Petter until January 13th.  

Rally America is still expected to have its big names return: Travis Pastrana, Ken Block, Andrew Comrie-Picard and the not so well known Kyle Sarasin. So there will be plenty of competition to watch. Infact, with such big names dropping out of the WRC, Rally America could gain in popularity (world wide even).

2009 is set to be an exciting year. Do any of you have big rally plans this year?

Loeb Wins Again! [ August 18th, 2008 ] By:Mark Ozimek

The WRC was tearing it up through the beautiful German countryside near Trier over this past weekend. The course has an interesting variety of surfaces; back-country roads that are covered in leaves and dirt on Friday, concrete roads on Saturday, and asphalt on Sunday. Through all this, the terrain varies from being in the woods to out in large fields to being in an old city. If you haven’t gotten a chance to watch the race, I highly recommend finding a way to watch it as soon as you can.

So what happened? Well, Loeb managed to snag 1st place in the first 13 consecutive stages! By the end of stage 13, he had a 43 second lead over Sordo in second place, who managed to stay in second place overall throughout the race, aside from temporarily losing it to Hirvonen in stages 5 and 6.

By the end of the rally, the podium was taken by Loeb in 1st, Sordo in 2nd and Duval in 3rd. Unfortunately WRC hasn’t made their official highlights video, but this one is pretty cool, and shows the German scenery well.

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