Rally
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The Volkswagen Snowareg has been bringing snowy joy to the world for more than a year, but now that it's wearing Red Bull livery and thrashing about in the frosty forests of Sweden, that can only mean one thing: rally! ALSO SEE: This 963-HP, 196-MPH Mitsubishi Colt Is Totally Bonkers: Video The Red Bull Volkswagen Snowareg is pumping up fans for the arrival of Rally Sweden, which runs this weekend, through some of the harshest winter conditions in the world--the perfect environment for a tracked uber-SUV. The rally is already underway, so if you want to keep up with the timing and scoring...
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Gymkhana 6 'GoPro Edition' Puts You In The Driver's Seat: Video
Ever wanted to imagine you're Ken Block as he flies around the Gymkhana course, setting the incendiary four-wheeled burnouts in motion? Here's your chance: Gymkhana 6 GoPro Edition. MUST SEE: Tesla Model S Takes On 2014 Corvette Stingray At The Drag Strip: Video There are dozens of other points of...
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Gymkhana Six, The Ultimate Gymkhana GRID Course: Video
Ken Block has done it again, and even though this particular dead horse has now suffered at least six beatings, it's always fun to see Block try to one-up himself in a wickedly powerful turbo AWD rally car. ALSO SEE: $3.4 Million Lykan Hypersport Debuts In Production Trim At Dubai Motor Show That's...
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Subaru And David Higgins Take Another Rally America Championship
David Higgins clinched his third consecutive Rally America Championship at the 2013 Lake Superior Performance Rally.
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Porsche 911 RSR Driver Gets It Totally Wrong, Flips Over Barrier Into Pond: Video
There's getting it wrong, then there's this. The car is a Porsche 911 RSR of the 964 flavor. The barrier is a large cement line of the Jersery flavor. The water is of the you-don't-want-to-land-upside-down-in-it flavor. The scene: Driver Harry Kleinjan, attempting to tear through a stage of the...
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Rally Co-Driver Sits Directly On Engine To Save The Day: Video
Everything about rally racing requires something different when compared to other forms of racing. The cars and the people who pilot them are equally insane. Neither, however, is as insane as the average co-driver. This is the person who has to maintain even more cool than the driver because they...
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Rally cars are a unique breed of vehicle that demand a high level of performance combined with a high level of abuse. Sure, other forms of racing take tolls on the vehicles competing, but rally cars are some of the hardest working machines on the planet. That's why it's important to run a vehicle that's up to the task. One team in particular is prepping for the upcoming East-African Safari Rally, reports BangShift, which should prove to be particularly demanding. Their vehicle of choice? A 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. DON'T MISS: Watch A Jaguar XJ220 Taken For Joyride... Around A...
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Rally Car Test In Quadvision Melts Your Brain: Video
Watching a pro rally driver at work in his office is like watching a conductor use all four limbs to direct an orchestra--at about 200 beats per minute. Watching that driver work in quadvision will blow your mind. One camera looks at the driver, another looks at his feet, a third looks forward from...
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Subaru, Higgins To Compete At X Games Gymkhana Grid: Video
Defending back-to-back Rally America champion David Higgins and the Subaru PUMA RallyCross Team are joining forces for the festivities at X Games Los Angeles. The team will compete in the Gymkhana Grid event against the likes of Ken Block, Tanner Foust, as well as his own Subaru PUMA teammates...
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Lexus IS F CCS-R Highlights From Pikes Peak: Video
Drifter and racer Ken Gushi has impressive skills behind the wheel, and this wasn't his first time up Pikes Peak in a Lexus IS F, so as you'd expect, the 2013 effort with the IS F CCS-R was a serious affair. The video shows the highlights from the team's week on the mountain, from car prep to...
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The Happiest Rally Duo On Earth: Video
If you can make it through the Irish accents and NSFW language in this video, you'll see the happy-go-luckiest pair of rally misfits ever. They're brilliant. It's no secret rallying is physically difficult, dangerous, expensive, and largely amateur. But it's also a legendary gravel tank-slapper of...
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Saying Goodbye To The Subaru WRX STI At The Isle Of Man
The current Subaru WRX STI is a beast: powerful, capable, but something less than pretty. Despite its ungainly looks, it has made fans out of us and out of a large chunk of the populace. But it's due for replacement soon. So we took the opportunity to spend the better part of a week with the car in...
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Last year Rhys Millen drove his Hyundai Genesis Coupe drift car, lightly modified for Pikes Peak use to the fastest time up the mountain, ever. This year, the Millen-Hyundai pairing is aiming to repeat the overall win, and defend his overall fastest time to the clouds. This year's car won't be a Genesis Coupe, though. Instead, a Pikes Peak-specific prototype called the PM580-T (the T is for tarmac). Powered by a Lambda V-6 engine, using rear-wheel drive and traction control, the new race car is based heavily on the previous Hyundai-Rhys Millen Racing PM580 prototype. Previous runs at the Peak...
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Peugeot 208 T16 Readies For Pikes Peak: Video
The path to the summit is almost completely paved these days, but that doesn't make the race up Pikes Peak any less thrilling or terrifying. In fact, it raises the speeds and increases the potential for danger. That makes it all the more important to have a well-sorted car for the time trial to the...
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X Games Global RallyCross Barcelona Canceled Due To Rain
Global RallyCross was set to make its X Games appearance in Barcelona, Spain. Things didn't go as planned, however, and the race wound up being cancelled. What does it take to cancel a RallyCross race? Rain, apparently. Fans who were set to watch the race were a bit unhappy, and took to Facebook...
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Pikes Peak Racer Jeremy Foley Gains Pirelli Tire Sponsorship
If you don't remember Jeremy Foley's massive off at the Devil's Playground from last year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, you probably haven't touched a computer in the past 7 months. Fortunately, both Foley and co-driver Yuri Kouzenetsov were unharmed in the massive barrel-rolling...
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Subaru Rally Team USA Takes Win At 100 Acre Wood, Breaks Block's Streak
David Higgins' ability behind the wheel is unquestioned, as is Subaru Rally Team USA's ability to prep a winning car. This weekend, the two came together with co-driver Craig Drew to take the win in the snow-covered Rally in the 100 Acre Wood. In doing so, the team broke Ken Block's six-win streak...
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Ken Block Eying Seventh Win At 100 Acre Wood With Fiesta HFHV
However moderate Ken Block's success in the World Rally Championship, there's no denying his dominance here at home. Like his Gymkhana videos, he consistently knocks it out of the park--even when other contenders are faster, the often crash-prone Block manages to hold it together for the win at the...
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Toyota, for all of its snoozerific mainstream cars, has long had a firm grasp on grassroots motorsports, as well as the professional series. The Rally America National Championship bridges the two, and Toyota is hitting it hard this year with another top-level effort from Subaru Rally Team USA and an ambitious plan for Scion. The Subaru Rally Team (SRT USA) has long been a force in the Rally America championship, with last year's dominance of the David Higgins and Craig Drew pairing resulting in a second consecutive Rally America overall championship victory, and the seventh for SRT USA. We...
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MINI Shows Off Cooper Countryman Dakar Rally Support Vehicle
Last January, MINI surprised the racing world by taking first place honors in the grueling Dakar Rally. Even more surprising was the fact that 2012 represented MINI’s very first attempt at the event, a testament to the preparation and planning of the X-raid Team, as well as the durability of...
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Scion Rally xD Team Looks Back At 2012 Rally America Season
If you weren't aware Scion has a rally team that competes in Rally America, you're forgiven. We didn't either. But this video offers a great look at the team's season, and what they did to prep for the Olympus Rally. After working with DirtFish rally school and David Higgins from Subaru's SRT USA...
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DirtFish Rally School With Subaru Rally Team's David Higgins
David Higgins is, if you're not familiar, the 2012 RallyAmerica National Champion driver (along with co-driver Craig Drew), and the lead wheelman in Subaru Rally Team USA's efforts. He's therefore, by definition and demonstration, one bad-ass driver. But in rally, it's not all about the driver (or...
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Subiesport Returns, As A TV Show: Help Kickstart It
We're not generally in the business of promoting other media outlets around here. It's not that we're mean-spirited or threatened by such activity; it's just not good business. But for now, we're setting that aside and helping get the word out in the interests of enthusiasts everywhere: Subiesport...
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Ford Ending WRC Sponsorship At Close Of 2012 Season
It's undeniably expensive to participate in motorsports at any level. At the level of the manufacturers--and the results they're expected to deliver--it's often insanely expensive. While Ford hasn't disclosed costs as the reason, it's pulling out of World Rally Championship (WRC) competition at the...
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