Mustang as Rally Car
on Nov 10, 2009 in Videos Ford Hurst Mustang Rally America Utecht So Ford Motor Co contacted me and wanted to play up their 2010 Mustang. Surprisingly they had a Rally style competition between two guys in Mustangs. Here’s a video of it: Link for you RSS peeps. Now as for the competitiveness of the 2010 Must...

XGAMES 15 - oh my oh my
on Aug 2, 2009 in Ramblings Andrew Comrie-Picard dave mirra deegan Ken Block kenny brack Tanner Foust Travis Pastrana x-games For any of you who missed the XGAMES 15 coverage of Rally Racing, here’s some stuff that went down: Ken Block clipped the inside of a corner in practice and rolled it. His crew managed to get his car in working order for the race against Brian...

The Future of Racing: Loops
on Jul 21, 2009 in Ramblings Fifth Gear Loop Stunt Driving Being able to do loops the same way roller coasters and airplanes do could easily get put into the X-Games (knowing how crazy some of the competitors are). “But Charles! That’s impossible! No car can do a loop” Au contraire mon frer...

Rally Poland! Whoa.
on Jul 20, 2009 in Ramblings Henning Solberg Mikko Hirvonen Petter Solberg Poland Sordo WRC The WRC brought in a new event this year: Rally Poland.  It really wasn’t a new event, but the last time WRC cars ran in the event was 2003. It was, in fact, a really really old event that was first held in 1921 and was included in the WRCR...

Not Rally: Beirut Bot
on May 13, 2009 in Ramblings So, I’m 10 days from graduation and in order to graduate I needed to do a Senior Design project. Since I didn’t really enjoy playing beer pong (long story), I figured I’d make a machine do it for me. That is how my partner and I cam...

A Video: WRC in animalia
on May 4, 2009 in Videos Awesome: Link for you RSS peeps.

Latvala had a Crappy Rally Portugal
on Apr 6, 2009 in Ramblings crash Latvala Portugal WRC Luckily, Jari-Matti Latvala is still around to talk about how crappy his Rally Portugal was. After rolling down a really steep hill/mountain he escaped without serious injury (along with his co-driver). Here is a video with portuguese commentating of...

Travis Pastrana Successfully Flips Rally Car
on Apr 1, 2009 in Ramblings backflip Travis Pastrana Just got word from a buddy who lives in Maryland that Travis Pastrana successfully landed a backflip in a stripped down version of his competition car. Video isn’t out of it yet, but hopefully it will be! Someone got a pic of it though:    ...

Sequential Transmission and Rally America: An Update
on Mar 31, 2009 in Ramblings Rally America rules Sequential Transmission In June of 2008 I wrote an article lamenting about Rally America’s rules on sequential transmissions. Turns out they’ve caved…a bit. I was reading the rules and I stumbled over this on page 89 section 6c: Gear Change: The use of an...

Combustion Engine Theory: Intro
on Mar 29, 2009 in Technical Articles Combustion Design Engine Internal I was thinking the other day (rare, I know) it’s about time that I started up another interesting series. How about something that is at the heart and soul of almost every motorsport: The engine! This is just the introduction to engines, I̵...