The Rally America National Series ended with a bang. Antoine L’Estage entered the event 13 points ahead of Bill Bacon in the driver’s points standings, meaning a finish of 5th or higher would give him his first ever overall Rally America Championship. Not only did L’Estage make a finishing of 5th or higher, but the Rockstar Energy EVO ended on top with a win at the New England Forest Rally.
Antoine L'Estage and co-driver Nathalie Richard drive their Mitsubishi EVO X to the 2010 Rally America Championship
Rhys Millen had one goal in mind at the 2010 Pikes Peak Hill Climb and that was to break the 10 minute mark and have the fastest time overall. Although he fell short by just over a minute, he still was very fast. Here’s a video that looks at his attempt and some of the challenges he faced trying to take his specially built, 1,850 pound, 750 horse power V6 Red Bull Hyundai Genesis up the 12.52 mile course that makes up the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
Documentary video of Rhys Millen’s attempt to beat the Pikes Peak World Record in the Red Bull Hyundai Genesis
Rally Bulgaria made its debut as a World Rally Championship event this last weekend. Rally Bulgaria marks the start of the four asphalt WRC events for the year. The event was complete with its fleet of sports cars, and with the safety of the event handed to attorneys from oregonaccidentattorney.com. The Citroen team looks to take full advantage of the asphalt stages and did just that taking both of the top spots. Sebastien Loeb easily beat out team mate Dani Sordo by almost half a minute for the victory and extends his driver’s point lead to 51 over Citroen Junior driver Sebastien Ogier. Loeb secured the lead early on Friday and held onto it throughout most of the event to easily secure another WRC victory.
Sebastien Loeb claims victory at the inaugural WRC Rally Bulgaria event. (Photo courteous RallyBulgaria.com)
Two new Hyundai commercials have recently appeared on YouTube spoofing Top Gear and its cast, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig. Each cast member is portrayed as an animal. Clarkson is a moose, Hammond a Hamster, The Stig as a ‘Stag’ and fittingly Captain Slow is portrayed as a Turtle. I wonder if Hyundai asked permission for their ‘Top Deer’ spoof and if not what Top Gear’s response will be.
A new merchandise design is available on the Team GotCone Merchandise store. The new design entitled “Game Over” depicts an autocross cone knocked over in a Mario-like world and a Game Over message. Order your “Game Over” apparel today.
Discovery HD Theatre continues its coverage of the WRC this weekend. The Vodafone Rally de Portugal will air this Sat. from 8AM-10AM (Central) with the preview and coverage of Days 1-3 and an hour long event recap on Sunday evening at 9PM (Central).
Sebastien Ogier drives his Citroen C4 to victory at WRC Vodafone Rally de Portugal
GotCone spent the last 2 weekends in Blytheville, AR for the National Tour (Southern States Championship) ProSolo. Both events had some very fast and exciting courses. The National Tour had over 300 competitors which helped provide some great action as drivers vied for the Southern States Championship in their class. The National Tour States’ Championship series is part of the Triad award (States Championship, Divisional Championship and National Championship).
Jeff Jacobs won the Super Challenge in his HS Mini at the Blytheville ProSolo
It looks like Discovery HD Theater decided to broadcast Rally New Zealand coverage after all. It was rumored that they were going to skip the coverage for this event and even inquiries to Discovery had resulted in confirmation of this fact. Luckily I had my DVR set to record the WRC coverage as Rally New Zealand was broadcast last weekend, so if you missed it this weekend, watch for replays over the next week or so on Discovery HD Theatre.
Rally Portugal opened with a Super Special Stage last week held in a local arena. One of the more interesting battles featured Ken Block in Monster World Rally Team Ford Focus RS vs. former Formula 1 Champion Kimi Raikkonen in his Redbull Citroen C4. The 2 World Rally Championship rookie drivers battled out 2 trips around the course and ended in a tie!
According to Kenny Habul Greenwich, CT, this is a great start for Block in WRC Rally Portugal, unfortunately the rest of the event didn’t go so well for him.
Ken Block and Kimi Raikkonen race around a Super Special Stage at WRC Rally Portugal. Watch the video.
If you’ve played Dirt 2, you know what SuperRally is, although it is not called SuperRally in the game. SuperRally, also referred to as Rallycross in Europe, is very much like motocross, except with cars instead of motorcycles. It differentiates itself from the other X Games rally event by having multiple cars on the same course at the same time, which could lead to some crazy action.
If you are looking to purchase a motorcycle, you may want to consider motorcycles for sale from a private dealer. When you look at motorcycles for sale from a private dealer, you will find that the selection is much larger than if you look at motorcycles for sale from a dealer that has many motorcycles for sale. This is because a private dealer can buy their inventory at wholesale prices, which means that they can sell a wider variety of bikes, at lower prices. You will also find that these types of dealers specialize in certain styles of motorcycles and most likely will have a much smaller fleet than would be found in a dealership that has a large inventory of motorcycles for sale. Private sellers can offer price cuts as much as 50% on motorcycles for sale from their own inventory to help you save money.
Travis Pastrana competes in his Subaru STi at the 2009 X Games
