Posted Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 10:28pm
The race to win this year’s American Rally Association National championship has taken an unexpected twist, as Brandon Semenuk hit a rock and retired from Ojibwe Forests Rally to give Subaru Motorsports USA team-mate Travis Pastrana the lead.
On the second pass of Thorpe Tower, Semenuk clattered into a rock that LW2D class co-driver Ethan Curtis described as being the size of a “small moon” and retired on the spot. Before his DNF, Semenuk had been leading Pastrana by almost half a minute.
Semenuk came into Ojibwe with the chance to wrap up a third consecutive ARA National crown, needing only to outscore Pastrana – who missed Olympus Rally earlier in the season – by five points to mathematically clinch the title.
