Check out our coverage of the Maine Forest Rally.
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"I'm just happy to be here, driving sideways up the mountain one last time before the whole road is paved," says Doug Havir on the morning before the 83rd running of the Falken Tire Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
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A favorite Italian proverb states: "Donne e motori, gioa e dolore," or "women and cars, joy and pain." Each year, organizers do their very best to give us the best of the first two in one of the most attended car shows in the world, the Bologna Motor Show. More than a million visitors attend.
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There's a strange calm as the car leaves the ground. There's nothing ahead but blue sky, there's no road noise, no gravel hitting the floor, nothing but the sound of the unloaded engine and Amar gasping, over the intercom, what he fears is his last breath.
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"When I first saw the road, I said, 'This is wide, this will be easy,'" says Roger Freeman, Mark Lovell's co-driver while Steve Turvey is off for the season doing gravel notes for Richard Burns. "There's nothing further from the truth."
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Cars, Queens, Pit Stops And More Queens
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It's so nice to attend a well-run SCCA ProRally. The Oregon Rally Group officials and volunteers have it really figured out. OK, the start was delayed as organizers tracked down some mountain bikers who ignored the road closed signs marking SS1, and there was the huge crowd of spectators, much large
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Without the use of publicly owned roads and the cooperation of the people who oversee them, rallying would be in a world of hurt. This is why ProRally event organizers, the National Forest Service and the various State Forest entities they interact with have had a good relationship for decades. Sure
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The 2002 SCCA ProRally season started in Atlanta, Mich. much the same as last year, with Hyundai atop the podium and Subaru second after the last stage of the infamous Sno*Drift Rally. Canadians Frank and Dan Sprongl won and 2001 Drivers Champion Mark Lovell "finished second just like last year, a g
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Step one: Unbolt the passenger seat in your cousin Jeb's pickup. Step two: Climb in, and lay on the floor while he does doughnuts in the Wal-Mart parking lot. This is what it feels like to ride in a WRC car as it flies down a gravel stage in the Finnish forest.
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"This is a hard event to know how to approach," says Hyundai's Paul Choiniere before the start of the SCCA Prescott Forest ProRally. "With roads we haven't seen that are apparently very rough, this may be an event where attrition is going to play a very big part."
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After more than 10 miles of the 10.5-mile SS8, second stage of the second leg of the Ojibwe ProRally, the top three cars were less then a second apart. Mark Lovell's Subaru finished the stage just 0.6 seconds ahead of Seamus Burke's Mitsubishi who was only 0.6-seconds faster than the Hyundai of Paul
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Dust is everywhere and in everything. You eat it, breathe it and wear it.
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If the rate of attrition in the 2001 Rim of the World Rally is at all telling, the "toughest rally in America" lives up to the moniker. Of 43 cars that started, a mere 23 finished the rally (our own Dave Coleman and Josh Jacquot, driving different cars, both experienced equipment failures of their o
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