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100 Miles-per-Hour in the 100 Acre Wood
Round Two of the Rally America Championship Series Motors to Missouri
SALEM, MO. (February 12, 2007) – When competitors like Lauchlin O’Sullivan, driver of the K&N Engineering Subaru, come to the storybook home of Winnie-the-Pooh and Tigger too for the 100 Acre Wood Rally Feb. 23-24, they won’t be looking for honey like Pooh bear. But they will be on the hunt for something just as precious; points to qualify for this summer’s X Games 13. Oh yeah, they also want to do well in the season-long competition to crown the 2007 Rally America National Champion.
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Tough Sledding for the K&N Subaru in Michigan
Lauchlin O’Sullivan and Scott Putnam fight for 9th at Sno*Drift
So the first time wasn’t a charm for Lauchlin O’Sullivan and Scott Putnam, driver and co-driver of the K&N Engineering Subaru rally car. It was the first event of the 2007 Rally America Championship season, the first time they had been together since the X Games back in August, and the first time they had ever teamed up in the snowy northwoods near Atlanta, Michigan. And they hope it will be the last time they’re not in contention for the overall rally win.
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Subenet Blog
Day 1 – Sno*Drift
Cool. Very cool. Way, way cool. As in below zero windchill, blowing snow and freezing rain cool. As in opposite lock, handbrake jammin,’ powerslidin’ through the trees cool.
This is rally racing, and it just came to lower northeastern Michigan (an area that has yet to get the global warming memo) for the aptly named Sno*Drift Rally; the first event of the 2007 Rally America Championship Series.
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The
Forecast is for FunCPD Racing is
in Michigan for the first rally of the 2007
season
They’re
talking about snow this weekend, which is
a common topic of conversation in the middle
of winter in northeastern Michigan, site
of the 2007 Sno*Drift Rally, the inaugural
event in the 10-round Rally America Series.
With a field of over 50 entrants they’re
also talking about some fierce competition
in addition to the cold. Oh yeah, fun is
a discussion topic as well.
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K&N
Engineering Goes Rally Racing
Season-long team sponsorship continues relationship
that began at X Games
K&N Engineering,
the world leader in performance filter technology,
has signed a season-long primary sponsorship
agreement with Twin Cities-based CPD Racing,
one of the leading teams in the professional
rally motorsports series Rally America.
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Seize
the Joystick: CPD Racing Team Got on the
Rally Trail in Unorthodox Fashion
President Ronald Reagan
once famously said tomorrow's fighter pilots
might come from the ranks of video game
players, and maybe Doug Havir's life would
be different had he taken up a different
joystick.
As it was, Havir's tastes in PlayStation
video found him battling four wheeled opponents
in Gran Turismo -- and catching the Rally
bug...
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What
is Rally?
Like soccer, it’s big in Europe. Unlike
soccer, it’s exciting.
It’s called Rally, a motorsport that
pits seasoned professional drivers against
garage mechanics, takes place in dirt, snow,
gravel and mud and places an emphasis on
driver skill over flat-out speed in ever-changing
conditions...
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