Monthly Archives: January 2011

This year’s Daytona Rolex 24-Hour race was a very competitive race at all times.  Except for caution periods, the top cars were always challenging each other.  This was hard to believe in a 24-hour race.  It seems that every year … Continue reading →

This weekend the 2011 RallyCar rally season got underway with the running of the Sno*Drift rally in Michigan.  The two-day rally started on Friday and ended late last night. Last year’s champion Antoine L’Estage got off to a great start … Continue reading →

This report was written by Frank Beyer for whom I was the navigator in last week’s running of the Rallye des Neiges.  Frank obviously enjoyed the rallye as much as I did: The WINTR SERIES spilled over the border to … Continue reading →

Last weekend was the Rallye des Neiges in Bromont, Quebec and hosted by the Sport Motor Car Club (SMCC) of Montreal.  This is Canada’s oldest rally with a history going back to 1937.  I have been wanting to take part … Continue reading →

This weekend I got an email from Mike Kamm about his recent rallycross success: “Last weekend I competed in the NER Eastern States Rallycross National event in Stafford Springs, CT. I was very fortunate to have finished 1st in the … Continue reading →

I got a message from Bob Vogel, the cold weather MINI driver from the Cape Cod area, about this year’s lectures at the Larz Anderson Museum of Transportation in Brookline, MA.  Bob knows that I am interested in the Peking … Continue reading →

This past weekend was the 2011 running of the Monte Carlo Rally.  This was the 100th aniversary of this rally.  One of the interesting things about this rally is that the top cars are different from those that are normally found at the … Continue reading →

I was asked about the scoring and timing system used in the Peking to Paris Rally, as a result I thought that I share my understanding of the system used.  The whole rally is scored on the total time taken … Continue reading →

This past weekend, January 15th, Dave Siesicki and I went to Piffard, New York to take part in The Long Way Home Rally.  This rally was the second in event in the Finger Lakes Winter Rally Series and also the … Continue reading →

I got the following write up on tarmac rallying in Australia that many of you might find interesting from Adam Spence of Redback Racing.  Redback Racing rents competition cars to people who want to compete in some of the tarmac … Continue reading →