A Sad Day for the Evolution
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http://rally-america.com/story.php?article=244
Driver / Co-Driver / Hometown / Hometown
1. Tanner Foust / Chrissie Beavis / Steamboat, CO / San Diego, CA
2. Ken Block / Alessandro Gelsomino / Encinitas, CA / Los Angeles, CA
3. Travis Pastrana / Christian Edstrom / Annapolis, MD / New York, NY
4. Ramana Lagemann / Mark Williams / Boston, MA / North Potomac, MD
5. Colin McRae / Carolyn Bosley / Lanark, Scotland / Burlington, VT
6. Andrew Pinker / Robbie Durant / Perth, Australia / Oxford, England
7. Paul Choiniere / Jeff Becker / Shelburne, VT / Great Neck, NY
8. Andrew Comrie-Picard / Marc Goldfarb Edmonton, Alberta Canada / Atkinson, NH
9. Boris Said / John Buffum / Carlsbad, CA / Colchester, VT
10. Pat Moro / Mike Rossey / Dublin, OH / Rochester, MI
11. Matt Iorio / Ole Holter / Marlborough, NH / Long Beach, CA
12. Otis Dimiters / Alan Ockwell / Great Neck, NY / Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
Last edited by Rich EVO MR SE; Aug 8, 2007 at 02:09 PM.
That second part is not accurate at all. Boris was in a Group N Subaru. Big respect to him for showing up with no practice and jumping a 70 foot gap, putting his reputation on the line as a paid gun and driving a car in a race without setting foot in it for even 5 minutes before race day. Boris is a badass.
If any other shops on here can build a winning rally car they should give it a shot... then qualify. Ask Mike H. what a commitment it is to do even one event.
Insofar as the X Games go the fan broke for us on round 1 which wasn't televised- probably due to the impact of the 70 foot jump landing. We advanced to round 2 after winning round 1 and sat in staging for 15 minutes to wait for a television commercial break. During that time, despite cycling the engine on and off and with no fan, the Autronic went into limp mode, triggered by the high water temperature. Limp mode limits the rev count to 4500 and retards the ignition timing. The car had no power to make the jump. During the 10 minute layover we hard wired the fan and went out for another run. (also not televised)
So, to ease everyone's tension an Evo finished 4th overall and it was probably the lowest funded car there.
http://rally-america.com/story.php?article=244
Driver / Co-Driver / Hometown / Hometown
1. Tanner Foust / Chrissie Beavis / Steamboat, CO / San Diego, CA
2. Ken Block / Alessandro Gelsomino / Encinitas, CA / Los Angeles, CA
3. Travis Pastrana / Christian Edstrom / Annapolis, MD / New York, NY
4. Ramana Lagemann / Mark Williams / Boston, MA / North Potomac, MD
5. Colin McRae / Carolyn Bosley / Lanark, Scotland / Burlington, VT
6. Andrew Pinker / Robbie Durant / Perth, Australia / Oxford, England
7. Paul Choiniere / Jeff Becker / Shelburne, VT / Great Neck, NY
8. Andrew Comrie-Picard / Marc Goldfarb Edmonton, Alberta Canada / Atkinson, NH
9. Boris Said / John Buffum / Carlsbad, CA / Colchester, VT
10. Pat Moro / Mike Rossey / Dublin, OH / Rochester, MI
11. Matt Iorio / Ole Holter / Marlborough, NH / Long Beach, CA
12. Otis Dimiters / Alan Ockwell / Great Neck, NY / Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
If any other shops on here can build a winning rally car they should give it a shot... then qualify. Ask Mike H. what a commitment it is to do even one event.
Insofar as the X Games go the fan broke for us on round 1 which wasn't televised- probably due to the impact of the 70 foot jump landing. We advanced to round 2 after winning round 1 and sat in staging for 15 minutes to wait for a television commercial break. During that time, despite cycling the engine on and off and with no fan, the Autronic went into limp mode, triggered by the high water temperature. Limp mode limits the rev count to 4500 and retards the ignition timing. The car had no power to make the jump. During the 10 minute layover we hard wired the fan and went out for another run. (also not televised)
So, to ease everyone's tension an Evo finished 4th overall and it was probably the lowest funded car there.
http://rally-america.com/story.php?article=244
Driver / Co-Driver / Hometown / Hometown
1. Tanner Foust / Chrissie Beavis / Steamboat, CO / San Diego, CA
2. Ken Block / Alessandro Gelsomino / Encinitas, CA / Los Angeles, CA
3. Travis Pastrana / Christian Edstrom / Annapolis, MD / New York, NY
4. Ramana Lagemann / Mark Williams / Boston, MA / North Potomac, MD
5. Colin McRae / Carolyn Bosley / Lanark, Scotland / Burlington, VT
6. Andrew Pinker / Robbie Durant / Perth, Australia / Oxford, England
7. Paul Choiniere / Jeff Becker / Shelburne, VT / Great Neck, NY
8. Andrew Comrie-Picard / Marc Goldfarb Edmonton, Alberta Canada / Atkinson, NH
9. Boris Said / John Buffum / Carlsbad, CA / Colchester, VT
10. Pat Moro / Mike Rossey / Dublin, OH / Rochester, MI
11. Matt Iorio / Ole Holter / Marlborough, NH / Long Beach, CA
12. Otis Dimiters / Alan Ockwell / Great Neck, NY / Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
What does the magnitude of the race and the placing have anything to do with respect of the sport or lack thereof?
This was in response to your joke of equating the builders of the Evo Rally cars to RNR. It had no relevance to the sport at all other than attempting to test your familiarity with it. (or lack therof)
Last edited by Bimmubishi; Aug 8, 2007 at 04:53 PM.
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There are next to zero evom vendors involved in real rallycross.
The X Games was nothing more than a circus act. Who the hell makes jumps like that?
also, i've seen boris do a lot of speedtv sportscar races so really he's not a nascar dude. he's soirt of an SCCA pro road racer that stepped up to nascar. im actually a fan. im a rally fan too. not trying to dog any of the competitors in x-games. it was all good.
Last edited by MaxR; Aug 9, 2007 at 01:04 AM.
That second part is not accurate at all. Boris was in a Group N Subaru. Big respect to him for showing up with no practice and jumping a 70 foot gap, putting his reputation on the line as a paid gun and driving a car in a race without setting foot in it for even 5 minutes before race day. Boris is a badass.
If any other shops on here can build a winning rally car they should give it a shot... then qualify. Ask Mike H. what a commitment it is to do even one event.
Insofar as the X Games go the fan broke for us on round 1 which wasn't televised- probably due to the impact of the 70 foot jump landing. We advanced to round 2 after winning round 1 and sat in staging for 15 minutes to wait for a television commercial break. During that time, despite cycling the engine on and off and with no fan, the Autronic went into limp mode, triggered by the high water temperature. Limp mode limits the rev count to 4500 and retards the ignition timing. The car had no power to make the jump. During the 10 minute layover we hard wired the fan and went out for another run. (also not televised)
So, to ease everyone's tension an Evo finished 4th overall and it was probably the lowest funded car there.
http://rally-america.com/story.php?article=244
Driver / Co-Driver / Hometown / Hometown
1. Tanner Foust / Chrissie Beavis / Steamboat, CO / San Diego, CA
2. Ken Block / Alessandro Gelsomino / Encinitas, CA / Los Angeles, CA
3. Travis Pastrana / Christian Edstrom / Annapolis, MD / New York, NY
4. Ramana Lagemann / Mark Williams / Boston, MA / North Potomac, MD
5. Colin McRae / Carolyn Bosley / Lanark, Scotland / Burlington, VT
6. Andrew Pinker / Robbie Durant / Perth, Australia / Oxford, England
7. Paul Choiniere / Jeff Becker / Shelburne, VT / Great Neck, NY
8. Andrew Comrie-Picard / Marc Goldfarb Edmonton, Alberta Canada / Atkinson, NH
9. Boris Said / John Buffum / Carlsbad, CA / Colchester, VT
10. Pat Moro / Mike Rossey / Dublin, OH / Rochester, MI
11. Matt Iorio / Ole Holter / Marlborough, NH / Long Beach, CA
12. Otis Dimiters / Alan Ockwell / Great Neck, NY / Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
If any other shops on here can build a winning rally car they should give it a shot... then qualify. Ask Mike H. what a commitment it is to do even one event.
Insofar as the X Games go the fan broke for us on round 1 which wasn't televised- probably due to the impact of the 70 foot jump landing. We advanced to round 2 after winning round 1 and sat in staging for 15 minutes to wait for a television commercial break. During that time, despite cycling the engine on and off and with no fan, the Autronic went into limp mode, triggered by the high water temperature. Limp mode limits the rev count to 4500 and retards the ignition timing. The car had no power to make the jump. During the 10 minute layover we hard wired the fan and went out for another run. (also not televised)
So, to ease everyone's tension an Evo finished 4th overall and it was probably the lowest funded car there.
http://rally-america.com/story.php?article=244
Driver / Co-Driver / Hometown / Hometown
1. Tanner Foust / Chrissie Beavis / Steamboat, CO / San Diego, CA
2. Ken Block / Alessandro Gelsomino / Encinitas, CA / Los Angeles, CA
3. Travis Pastrana / Christian Edstrom / Annapolis, MD / New York, NY
4. Ramana Lagemann / Mark Williams / Boston, MA / North Potomac, MD
5. Colin McRae / Carolyn Bosley / Lanark, Scotland / Burlington, VT
6. Andrew Pinker / Robbie Durant / Perth, Australia / Oxford, England
7. Paul Choiniere / Jeff Becker / Shelburne, VT / Great Neck, NY
8. Andrew Comrie-Picard / Marc Goldfarb Edmonton, Alberta Canada / Atkinson, NH
9. Boris Said / John Buffum / Carlsbad, CA / Colchester, VT
10. Pat Moro / Mike Rossey / Dublin, OH / Rochester, MI
11. Matt Iorio / Ole Holter / Marlborough, NH / Long Beach, CA
12. Otis Dimiters / Alan Ockwell / Great Neck, NY / Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
There is NO OTHER racing like rally, it is harder on people, parts, WALLET's, than you could possibly imagine. The people that went to X games spent at least 15k just to get the cars and crew there, in many cases MUCH, MUCH more. This does not include wrecking the front end of your car and spending thousands more so you can represent a "car brand" that has no intrest in supporting you or the sport. My guess, most teams spent 30k plus to put on this show this weekend, so for those of you who cannot spend that kind of dough in a week - maybe you should keep your .02 to yourself.
DSG and SBR both won there first round eliminations, but because of the show running late, this did not get aired on T.V.
I don't have official times, but for seeding after the first run they had Tanner fastest, us second, Ramana third, and Choiniere fourth. That's why Tanner got Pinker, we got Block, Ramana got Colin, and Choiniere got Travis (slowest qualifier got fastest pre-qualified). The show was intended for Subaru team USA to make the finals, and that is really o.k. by me. Subaru sponsored the event, and those with the money make the rules. I am 100% fine with this.
There is no doubt in my mind, with better funding for DSG and SBR - both of our teams/ drivers can go out and on any given Sunday whoop Subaru - and we both have had very competitive times thus far this year.
Alex - like I said before, big thumbs up from our crew to yours... here is to hoping there is some money for next year
I could go drag racing all year on what rally cost for one race. 
Mike Huml
SBR Inc.
i give props to slowboy for getting where they got in rally this year,,there not a huge shop and for them to make it there was pretty cool. Slowboy makes some great stuff for the evo which i have some of...and they've always been great to deal with for me....Again Good luck with all the rally stuff SBR
i give props to slowboy for getting where they got in rally this year,,there not a huge shop and for them to make it there was pretty cool. Slowboy makes some great stuff for the evo which i have some of...and they've always been great to deal with for me....Again Good luck with all the rally stuff SBR
Mike Huml
SBR Inc.
