On-Board Video: Kimi’s Big Moment at Rally of Mexico
March 9, 2010
A great video of Kimi’s big six-roller at the Rally of Mexico. Ken Block had a shunt as well but managed to go much further into the stage then the ‘Ice Man’, a video of Ken’s big moment is posted after the jump. Kimi’s recent performance in rallying does beg the question though, if Formula One drivers are so great, how come they hardly do well in rallying or other race series? Read more
Blast To The Past: 1999 French Rally Championship – Group A FWD Kit Cars
March 7, 2010
The Group A class was created to promote more private entries. In order to be homologated, 2500 examples of the competing car had to be put on sale by the manufacturer. Above is a great video of the cars that used to race in the class in the late 1990s, described by the compiler of the video as “notorious little hornets”, the fast, nimble, and lightweight kit cars, the video shows some of the best bits from the 1999 French Rally Championship. And the stars? French greats like the Citroen Xsara, Peugeot 306 Maxi and the Renault Megane. In the 1999 season, the FWD Citroen Xsara won twice in the WRC and clinched the Grand Prize in Rallye Catalunya and Tour de Corse. Enjoy your 10 mins of 1999 WRC adrenalin. Read more
Kimi’s Bad Luck Continues: Crashes Out Spectacularly In Rally of Mexico
March 6, 2010
Ex-F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen has crashed out of Rally Mexico in spectacular fashion.
Raikkonen, who swapped F1 for rallying when Fernando Alonso replaced him at Ferrari, rolled his Citroen C4 six times on the final gravel stage of day one. Both Raikkonen and his co-driver Kaj Linstrom were unharmed, but the car was destroyed in the accident and he was forced to retire.
He finished 30th in Rally Sweden last month after a number of mistakes dropped him well down the order. He was also out of contention before his big accident in Mexico, but showed real potential on an asphalt stage when he set the fifth fastest time.
He will now have to wait until early April for another chance to prove his talent at the next round of the WRC in Jordan. Read more
Ken Block Proves He’s Equally As Fast In a Ford Fiesta: Wins 100 Acre Woods Rally Five Times Consecutively
March 2, 2010
Ken Block has proved that he is equally as efficient at getting the job done in a Ford Fiesta as he was in his once-trademark Subaru Impreza WRX STi. Both Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino have dominated the 100 Acre Woods Rally since 2005 and came back this year looking to set aside the suspension failure issue the duo had to face at the Sno*Drift rally earlier last month. Read more
Kimi Raikkonen Tests His New Citroen C4 WRC Rally Car
February 1, 2010
Kimi Raikkonen testing his Citroen C4 WRC race car. Watch him fly, it looks like he’s at home on snow or a circuit. Read more
Travis Pastrana Wins Rally America Sno*Drift – Ken Block’s Ford Breaks Down
February 1, 2010
Travis Pastrana’s enviable motorsports resume—which already features such mundane entries as double backflipping a motorcycle, jumping a car 270 feet across Long Beach Harbor, and capturing enough X Games gold to bailout Wall Street—expanded this weekend to include a new sport called vehicular ice dancing, and subsequently, his fourth Rally America Sno*Drift victory. Actually, ice drift might be a better term, as the Northern Lower Michigan roads used by the racers were the slickest in recent memory, thanks to a soaking rain followed quickly by a drastic drop in temperature—all less than a week before the race. As a result, the gravel roads were more like rivers of glare ice, and since studded tires aren’t legal in Michigan, and since rally cars must be street legal, well, you see where this is headed. Read more
Some Footage From the 2010 Rally Monte Carlo
January 25, 2010
Some highlights from day 1 of the 2010 Rally of Monte Carlo. There were no major incidents on that day except for the retirement of former BMW-Sauber and now Renault F1 driver, Robert Kubica. The Pole only managed to get about 8km before the engine of his Clio gave way. Read more
The Rally of Kings: Classic Highlights From The Rally of Monte Carlo
January 22, 2010
The Rally of Monte Carlo was first raced in 1911 and was an important means of testing the latest improvements and automobile innovations. Winning the rally would give the winning car incredible credibility and publicity. The rally is also famous for its special stages, many have perished along the stages but many more have gone on to be legends of rallying, Marcus Gronholm and Petter Solberg are just some examples of racers who have crashed in the Monte Carlo rally stages. The video above highlights some of the best driving moments of the rally but you can click here for more information on this truly unique rally stage dubbed the The Rally of Kings. Read more
Prodrive Introduces New Group N Rally Car – the Subaru Impreza N2010
January 20, 2010
More news about Subaru but this time its Prodrive with a new model and it’s their latest Group N rally car, the Subaru Impreza N2010.
To help it rip up world rally stages, the N2010 is equipped with a 2-liter boxer engine with an IHI twin scroll tubocharger (which features a 33m air restrictor), high flow fuel injectors, a motorsport catalyst, and a recalibrated ECU module. These upgrades provide an additional 20bhp, more torque, and improved responsiveness. Read more
Ken Block Drops Trademark Subaru In Favour of Ford
January 8, 2010
You read the title right, Ken Block will be swapping his trademark Subaru WRX STi for a Ford in 2010. Yes, I know what you are thinking and trust me it was a “WTF” moment for me as well but he’s getting quite a sweet deal – different Fords for different purposes rather than one WRX STi for multiple purposes. Read more
