Rally
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The Rally in the 100 Acre Wood is run on some of the most brutally-cut, barely-maintained, baseball-sized gravel roads to be found anywhere. We know. We've done it. Ken Block has done it five times, with considerable success. In this video he's testing the Hybrid Function Hoon Vehicle ahead of the upcoming event, which kicks off tomorrow. Block will be aiming for his sixth win. Block didn't run the rally in 2011. Without Travis Pastrana there to harry him--Pastrana had a substantial lead over Block in 2010, until a tire-related mechanical failure forced him to DNF around the midpoint--it'll...
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David Higgins Wins The Sno*Drift Rally: Video
David Higgins and Craig Drew overcame their lack of winter rallying experience to capture the opening round of the 2012 Rally America series.
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Disapproving Cows, Golf, And The Hyundai Veloster Rally Car
Rhys Millen was born into racing awesomeness, grew up in it, and continues to live it nearly every day. So what's new in the Millen repertoire? How about rally car golf, courtesy of his alliance with Hyundai. The Veloster rally car might not seem like the ideal golf cart at first (though there is...
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David Higgins Returns To Defend His Rally America Championship
David Higgins will be back with Subaru Rally Team USA
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Ford Preps For Rallye Monte Carlo: Video
Jari-Matti Latvala isn't exactly a household name in the U.S. unless that household happens to be chock full of rally nuts, but this video should bring him one step closer. The footage shows the 2012 Ford Fiesta RS WRC in testing as the team preps for the return of the Rallye Monte Carlo to the...
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Ken Block Reviews 2011 Through The Lens Of His GoPro: Video
Sure, Ken Block's rally/gymkhana Fiesta is probably the most over-exposed four-wheel-drive vehicle on the Internet, but there's a reason: it's the mud, snow, smoke, and gravel-slingingest thing with a love for the camera. This video recaps Block's rather adventurous 2011, though with fewer crashes...
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For 2012, Subaru's motorsport division, STI will again be paying contingency money for podium finishes in Production Car World Rally Championship competition.
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Why The World Rally Championship Has Gone Low-Tech
Motorsport is expensive. If you were to write "expensive" in letters the size of the Hollywood sign, you'd only be scraping the surface of how expensive it actually is. It's bad enough competing at grassroots level but at world championship level the money involved is frankly ludicrous. And though...
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'Rally-Ready' 2012 Hyundai Veloster Headed To SEMA
The crew at Hyundai have put their heads together with ARK Performance for the upcoming 2011 Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) show, and this is what resulted: a rally-bred 210-horsepower 2012 Veloster with a boatload of upgrades and a funky paintjob. For those that think rally cars...
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The Nissan Leaf Takes On The Cannonball... Ireland
A Nissan Leaf will be the first electric car entered into the Cannonball Ireland charity rally.
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Colin McRae's Fatal Helicopter Accident Ruled Pilot Error
It doesn't seem like it's been four years since one of the greatest rally drivers to have turned a gravel-chucking wheel died in a private helicopter accident: Colin McRae's death in 2007 still feels fresh to rally fans. And now it's been ruled his fault by British authorities. The latest word on...
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Friday Fun: Our Top Ten Retro Console Racing Games
Occasionally, the All Car Tech team gets pangs of nostalgia for times gone by, and we often yearn for the days of 1980s excess, when braces were red and Porsches were white with whale-tail spoilers. Inevitably, the subject of video games will pop up. We love a good racing game here, and the...
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Subaru rally driver David Higgins sets a new record run up the Mt. Washington Climb to the Clouds, now captured on official video.
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Subaru Rally Team USA Guns For Gold: Video
Subaru Rally Team USA's David Higgins won the Rally America national championship this year, and along the way created a number of highlights. This video captures many of them. Who doesn't love a rally highlight reel? Drivers Higgins and Dave Mirra also give their thoughts on the team, the season...
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RallyCross At X Games 17: Video, Gallery
This weekend, the sport of European-style rallycross headed to the streets of Los Angeles, but unlike road racers on a city street circuit, the rallycrossers faced the challenge of dirt and gravel strewn in strategic locations among other obstacles. The action was pretty intense, but if you were...
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McRae Electric Dakar Buggy In The Rain: Video
McRae Buggy and Tim Coronel are working on the first electric buggy for the 2012 Dakar Rally, and it finally got the chance to test in some real race conditions at the 2011 Spanish Baja, running as the opening car for the Super Special stage. With a base weight of just 1,440 pounds for the McRae...
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Ken Block Unveils Hybrid Function Hoon Vehicle: Video
Ford's insane versions of the Fiesta for Ken Block's Gymkhana and WRC cars are nothing short of mind-blowing in their ability to generate power and turn it into tire smoke, especially considering the tiny displacement of the turbo hatch. The latest take on the uber-Fiesta is a "hybrid function hoon...
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Block, Foust, Gittin Jr., Deegan Launch Octane Academy With Ford
Want to be a motorsports hero? Think you can hang with some of the best rally, drift, offroad, and gymkhana drivers in the world? Get your video camera out and try out for the Octane Academy. Four high-profile drivers will put on a four-day driving camp for the people chosen through the video...
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Two-wheel drive, supercharged, and sideways in the dirt. That's the future of at least one Lotus model, according to the latest reports. The company is said to be planning an Exige-based rally car for IRC or WRC competition. Combining two of our favorite things in the world (lightweight British sports cars and stage rally) the Exige rally car would see at least 300 units built for homologation purposes, but that figure could reach as high as 500 or 600 cars built, according to CAR. The cars would be sold to privateers and run as customer efforts, supported by, but not run by, the Lotus...
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Subaru, David Higgins Set New Mt. Washington Hillclimb Record
Mark Higgins just set the fastest lap time around the Isle of Man TT, and now his brother David has set the Mt. Washington hillclimb record--both in Subarus.
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Global RallyCross Pikes Peak 'Last Chance' Preview: Video
The first season of the Global RallyCross Championship is drawing to a close, but there's still some action to see with the Last Chance Pikes Peak event on TV this weekend.
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MINI WRC Driver Sordo Sits Sixth After Day 1
MINI's return to the World Rally Championship is already underway this weekend in Sardinia, Italy, and so far--aside from a few hitches--it's going well. Dani Sordo and co-driver Carlos del Barrio are currently in sixth place after the first eight stages, with an eye toward a fifth place finish...
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2013 VW Polo R WRC Preview Video
Earlier today we brought you the first scant official details on Volkswagen's 2013 World Rally Championship entry, the Polo R WRC, and now we have the official preview video of the car's design and unveiling. Showing little more than some cryptic sketching and small cuts of in-car video, both...
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Volkswagen Polo R WRC Revealed, Starts Throwing Gravel In 2013
World Rally Championship racing is heating up even as other series appear to be struggling: MINI recently announced a new entry, and now Volkswagen is joining the party, too, as we've expected for some time, though it won't take to the countryside in anger until 2013. Its entry, the Polo R WRC, is...
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