Grassroots Upset At The 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift Rally

Grassroots Upset At The 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift Rally »

More than living up to its name, Sno*Drift Rally is the only winter rally on ...
Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs]

Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs] »

Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team recently debuted the Fiesta RS World Rally Car. The ...
Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS]

Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS] »

Based on the production Mini Countryman, the MINI WRC is a 1.6-liter turbocharged, all-wheel drive ...
Inside The Borg Warner EFR Turbocharger

Inside The Borg Warner EFR Turbocharger »

Borg Warner fashions the EFR turbine housing out of cast stainless steel, a material that ...
Dyno Test – 13whp In A Bottle – RSR RAN UP Oil Additive

Dyno Test – 13whp In A Bottle – RSR RAN UP Oil Additive »

As RSR tells it, nano technology is basically a dispersion of certain elements to a ...
Porsche Debuts 563hp 918 RSR Concept

Porsche Debuts 563hp 918 RSR Concept »

Powering the 918 RSR Concept is an “updated” 563hp, 10,300RPM V8 engine, based on the ...
Articles about “rally racing”
X-Games Can Save American Rally Racing

X-Games Can Save American Rally Racing

Mother Nature is actually out to puncture and flip your rally car but that’s just part of the fun. So, how come rally racing isn’t as big as NASCAR in the US?

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Mini To Enter 2011 World Rally Championship With Countryman WRC

Mini To Enter 2011 World Rally Championship With Countryman WRC

Mini will be using the longer Countryman model to build the Mini Countryman WRC. Famed racing engineering house Prodrive will handle the program, now left twiddling their thumbs with no factory Subaru WRC program to manage.

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Pikes Peak Audi TTS Gets Classic Rally Livery

Pikes Peak Audi TTS Gets Classic Rally Livery

In honor of the 30th anniversary of Audi’s branded Quattro all-wheel drive technology, the autonomous Audi TTS has been covered in a livery reminiscent of their classic rally cars. These were the same colors run on the infamous Audi Sport Quattro S1 rally car, which itself won Pikes Peak with drivers Michele Mouton and Walter Rohrl.

June 25th, 2010 | Filed under New Cars | Read More »

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2010 Preview

Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 2010 Preview

Popular with rally drivers, motorcyclists, and daredevils, Pikes Peak is a 12.42-mile, 156 turn run up to the 14,000-foot mountain summit. The PPIHC gained notoriety over the years from its sheer cliff drops and rally star entrants.

June 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Ford And Latvala Win 2010 WRC Rally New Zealand

Ford And Latvala Win 2010 WRC Rally New Zealand

Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila made FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) history by securing the record 75th win for the Ford Motor Company in Rally New Zealand.

May 10th, 2010 | Filed under Motorsports | Read More »

Ralliart Partially Closed And Done – No New Parts

Ralliart Partially Closed And Done – No New Parts

Ralliart’s statement is a bit ambiguous about whether Ralliart itself is closing its doors. For certain, they are stopping certain business activities for now and scaling back.

April 1st, 2010 | Filed under Tuned Cars | Read More »

F1 Champion Alain Prost Drives Renault Dacia Duster Rallycar

F1 Champion Alain Prost Drives Renault Dacia Duster Rallycar

March 1st, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

WORKS Lancer Ralliart Rally Car

WORKS Lancer Ralliart Rally Car

It’s strange being inside one of the first tuned Lancer Ralliarts in the US. The noise is, to put it simply, unfamiliar. Mitsubishi’s WRX killer is available only with a dual-clutch semi-automatic transmission and right now it’s doing all the shifting.

August 21st, 2009 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

2009 WRC Ford Focus RS

2009 WRC Ford Focus RS

World Rally Championship WRC-class cars are turbocharged, all-wheel drive, anti-lag popping machines that are driven on almost every imagineable surface. So when we came across this gallery of images in Ford Racing’s depository, we knew that we had to share them with you. Enjoy.

April 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Tuned Cars | Read More »

Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles – Too bad, Paris Dakar

Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles – Too bad, Paris Dakar

One of the world’s most famous endurance rally events is the Paris-Dakar, which, coincidentally, wasn’t held anywhere near either of those two cities this year. Having moved to South America due to terrorist concerns, the now-named Dakar Rally left many diehard rally fans wanting. Not the women though.

April 10th, 2009 | Filed under Motorsports | Read More »