Subiesport Magazine - June/July 2008 - (Page 94)

RALLY-AMERICA SERIES Advertiser Oregon Trail Rally cranks up the heat Directory Audio Integrations 26 COBB Tuning 63 Cosworth 34 DC Shoe Co. C2-P1 Disc Brakes Australia 55 Easy Street 8 Endura-Tech 21 Flatirons Tuning 48 Global Performance Parts/Whiteline 59 H&R Special Springs 15 HarmanMotive 11 Hawk Performance Brakes 5 JSC Speed 57 Konig Wheels 23 Mach V Motorsports 13 OAKOS Automotive 80 Perrin Performance 27 Performance Race Engineering 61 Primitive Enterprises 95 RacingBrake.com 67 Rally Armor 33 Royal Purple 2 Slowboy Racing 62 Subiefest 2008 43 Subaru North America Back Cover SubaruGenuineParts.com 75 SubaruWRXParts.com 49 Subiesport.com 17 Subiesport Subscriptions 81 This directory is provided as a service to our readers. To advertise your company in Subiesport Magazine, contact Ryan by phone at: 425-458-4949, ext 3. or email: ryan@subiesport.com Photo by Lars Gange, rally.subaru.com THE FIRST DAY of the Oregon Trail Rally, drivers and co-drivers alike were all smiles, happy to be back in a “proper rally.” The days leading up to the rally were cold and wet, a hallmark of Oregon weather, but day-one set the tone for a hot, dry rally that would see a full half the field leave the road, including most of the top ten. It would be easier to list the teams that didn’t crash and burn, but here’s the casualty list for the weekend. The seemingly unstoppable team of Ken Block and Alessandro Gelsomino were sidelined early with the car stuck on a hillside. The 2006 and 2007 Oregon Trail winners Andrew Pinker and Robbie Durant saw their car catch fire in the unseasonably hot weather, taking them out of contention. Pinker’s teammates Tanner Foust and Chrissie Beavis also fell by the wayside, along with two-time PGT Champs Matthew Johnson and Jeremy Wimpey. Sensational young driver Kyle Sarasin and co-driver Mikael Johansson also ended up with a severely bent car and a DNF to show for their trip to the West Coast. In the PGT ranks, Stephan Verdier and Scott Crouch, Norm LeBlanc and Keith Morison, Piotr Wiktorczyk and Benjamin Slocum, Travis and Terry Hanson, and the local Oregon team of Mark Tabor and Kevin Poirier (2004 Production class champions) were all out by the end of the weekend. In the end, victory at the Oregon Trail Rally was all about survival — being there at the end. 2006 and 2007 Rally America champion Travis Pastrana stayed on the road and delivered an excellent performance in his third outing with new co-driver Derek Ringer. Pastrana finished the event 3:36 ahead of Canadian Mitsubishi Evo pilots Andrew Comrie-Picard and Marc Goldfarb. Five minutes farther back came West Coast regulars and 2004 Oregon Trail winners Carl Jardevall and Amity Trowbridge in their Mitsubishi Evo. This year’s Oregon Trail Rally featured 16 stages, but two runnings of one stage road were cut due to a six-foot accumulation of snow on the road. This was hard to believe, based on the 90-plus degree temperatures through most of the weekend, but there was still snow to be seen on several of the stage roads. In the hunt for the win, Pastrana/Ringer won eight of the 14 stages that were contested. Foust/ Beavis won four of the remaining six, and ComriePicard/Goldfarb won the other two. The weekend was a tremendous disappointment for Block/Gelsomino. The duo expressed their displeasure with the lack of a pre-event reconnaissance at this event. The previous three events all allowed teams to pre-run the course at slow speed to make additional pace notes. After winning both the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood and the Olympus Rally in dominating fashion, the team has dropped to third place in the season points standings. Highlighting the importance of consistency, Comrie-Picard/Goldfarb have moved into the points lead with two second-place and two fourthplace finishes. Pastrana/Ringer are in second place with two seconds and a first. With many of the top teams dropping out due to crashes or mechanical failures, new faces began appearing at the top of the standings. Chief among these is the sort-of/almost Subaru Rally Team USA “third car” driven by Dave Mirra and co-driven by Alexander Kihurani. The team was third on Stage 14 and turned up fourth on Stage 16 as well. The team was already time-barred due to earlier troubles, but still gave a good showing. 94 JULY 2008 http://rally.subaru.com

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