Regional Rally Championship
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
2009's Regional champions from all over the country were invited to 100 Acre
Wood for a shootout. Results are:
1st Krolikowski/Krolikowski 1:40:35.0
2nd Duplessis/Woods 0:21.5
3rd Kasten/Soto 10:12.3
100 Acre Wood Region Results
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
100 Acre Wood Regional Rally Results are as follows:
1st Krolikowski/Krolikowski 01:03:22.4
2nd Gilligan/Petersen +0:22.2
3rd Cassidy/Kneipp +01:22.8
Block Wins!
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Top Three Official Results Overall:
1 Block/Gelsomino 1:27:06.1
2 L'Estage/Richard +0:20.9
3 Bacon/Watt +2:57.1
Top Three SP Class Official Results
1 Hanson/Hanson 1:35:06.1
2 Rooney/Hotson +02:34.5
3 Penasack/Kihurani +04:53.4
Top Three 2WD Class Official Results
1 Duplessis/Woods 1:40:56
2 Van Way/Solcum +05:52.2
3 Conley/Rudolph +0:28.4
Stay tuned in for more offical updates.
Stage 14 is now live!
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Stage 14 is now underway, 22 minutes behind schedule. Thanks to Dent County's
Finest for helping with rowdy spectators.
Results: Top Ten after SS13
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
1. Block 1:10:18.3
2. L'Estage +0:25.8
3. Bacon +2:14.4
4. Mirra +4:04.6
5. Hanson +6:33.8
6. Decker +8:50.8
7. Burke +9:01.6
8. Rooney +9:41.9
9. Gruszka +9:44.9
10. Penasack +11:08.0
Subaru on Mirra's Shoulders
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Since Travis Pastrana DNF’d at the super special this could be the first time in
six years that Subaru will not be in the top three positions at a rally in the
United States. The pressure mounts on fourth place Subaru driver Dave Mirra to
rally through the night and pull Subaru through to the podium.
“I don’t think it’s going to affect anything, I’m going to go out and finish the
way I’m sitting right now.” Was Dave Mirra’s reply to the news of the potential
end to a six year winning streak.
Although, he added, “Wow, rally changes things up, things change quick.”
Pastrana is out, Block leads
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
SRT USA has confirmed that Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom will not
continue the 100 Acre Wood Rally. Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino now hold the
overall lead. L'Estage and Bacon are now in second and third, respectively.
If the rally finishes as is, the 2010 100 Acre Wood Rally will be the first
American national championship event without a Subaru on the overall podium
since July 2004, when the Maine Forest Rally ended with a Hyundai and two
Mitsubishis in the top three spots.
Maine Forest Rally - July 30-31 2004
1. Choiniere/Becker - Hyundai Tiburon
2. Lawless/Gillespie - Mitsu Evo 8
3. Comrie-Picard/Goldfarb - Mitsu Evo 4
Drama for Pastrana at SuperSpecial
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Travis Pastrana broke his car's left rear control arm on the Potosi Super
Special stage!
This incident may cost Travis his lead and possibly put him out of the rally.
The crew was seen with the tire off the rim, trying to make repairs, but can
only use "unplanned assistance" from spectators to fix the car out of service.
If SRT USA techs help repair the car outside of service or recover it all
together, Pastrana/Edstrom will DNF. The crew is allowed to be 30 minutes late
to the next control before being disqualified from the rally.
Ken Block is now in a position to win his fifth consecutive 100AW rally. With
L'Estage and Bacon right behind, 100AW may see an overall podium without a
Subaru on it.
Photo: Neil McDaid
Ken Block takes first stage win in Fiesta
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Ken Block takes his first stage win in the Ford Fiesta. Block said, “Today feels
the best so far. This is only my first gravel event in it [car]. I have high
expectations, but I’ve also got to be realistic. I’d love to come here and win,
but I’m in a brand new car with very little time in it.”
Competitor Quotes from Service 1
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Christian Edstrom (Car #199): “We came into a dip really hard on stage six and
just nose wheelied it for like 50 yards and really hit hard.”
Bill Bacon (Car #68): “Not really making any time on anybody in front of us, but
we are getting away from the guys behind us. Overall, been a lot of fun.”
Travis Hanson (Car #523): “I think we are doing a good job maintaining our
lead.”
Carl Decker (Car #693): “We lost our brakes on stage today and had a moment. The
pedal just went to the floor and I went into the ditch to try and scrub some
speed. I used a lot of bushes."
Chris Duplessis (Car #70): "We had a problem with our alignment yesterday so we
were going kind of slow. We'll be pushing harder today."
Henry Krolikowski (Car #44): “Sun’s out, no complaints!”
Don DeRose (Car #494): "The car slid out from under us after landing hard on a
jump and we sideswiped a tree at 75, 80 miles per hour."
Dillon Van Way (Car #600): "We broke our shifter column, lost a lot of time."
Antoine L'Estage falls to third overall
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Antoine L'Estage and Nathalie Richard have fallen into third place overall after
losing 1:20sec to Pastrana on SS7. The crew drove through a water splash and
were forced to stop to clear their fogged-up windshield. They had a puncture
shortly after.
Results: Top Ten Overall After SS8
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
1. Pastrana 47:50.4
2. Block +1:18.4
3. L'Estage +1:43.6
4. Bacon +2:41.6
5. Mirra +3:40.5
6. Hanson +5:30.8
7. Decker +6:51.6
8. Burke +7:36.8
9. Gruszka +8:09.7
10. Rooney +8:33.0
Full Results: rally-america.com/events/2010/100AW/results/
Team Quotes from Day 2 Expose
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Here are a few competitor quotes from Parc Expose before teams headed into the
woods for day two's stages:
Nathalie Richard said, “Well we’re about 22 seconds behind Travis and I think we
are still going to push today and hope that he makes a couple little errors or
has a flat or something. So we are still trying to go for it. It’s only our
second time here and the first time we’ve made through four stages. So these are
all new for us, but we are going to go for it.”
Bill Bacon said, “We’re about 30 seconds back on Ken, and 45 seconds or so on
Dave. We’re pretty comfortable with the pace we’ve been going. We can keep ahead
of Dave, and hopefully somebody in front of us makes a mistake. Hopefully it’s
not Antoine and Natalie, but we could get on the podium. I don’t think we’re
gonna be able to take 30 seconds out of Ken, I’m sure he’ll be going for it too.
We’ll try and run the same pace as yesterday and get to the finish.”
Dave Mirra said, “I’m gonna keep the pace and stay smooth and just learn. I’m
gonna get out there and develop and have a good time. My Subaru is running
awesome. The grip is obviously beyond my capabilities right now. I haven’t
really found the limits yet, so I’m going to try and build on it and stay smooth
and have no incidents.”
Gelsomino explains the Fiesta and Focus RS WRC
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino are looking for their fifth consecutive win at 100
Acre Wood this weekend before heading to Rally Mexico for their WRC debut.
Alex tells Rally America about the difference between the two models of Ford
cars MWRT will be using this season:
“The Fiesta has got an excellent chassis. It’s very small and nimble and it’s
very, very powerful. The Focus is obviously under the World Rally Car
specifications and is the top when it comes to rally cars in the world; it is an
amazing piece of kit, the Focus WRC, but the fiesta is not very far behind. If
you think of it as a beginning of the development within the end of the year the
Fiesta we may be very close to World Rally car performance.”
Piotr Wiktorczyk explains his engine fire
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Piotr Wiktorczyk and Greg Dorman of the Riders Energy Rally Team DNF'd on day
one of the rally due to mechanical failure.
Wiktorczyk explains what happened:
“Basically about four and a half miles into the stage our car lost all its
power. We pulled over and opened the hood and it was on fire. So we got out some
extinguishers, it didn’t want to go out, but the Conleys were kind enough to
pull over. We grabbed their extinguisher and we got the fire out.”
“Most likely the turbo blew a gasket or a hose or something like that and
sprayed oil everywhere. It’s most the turbo, there is no oil in the engine
anymore, so we are pretty sure the engine and turbo is seized.
Day Two of 100AW Begins
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
It's another clear, sunny day in Missouri and the second leg of the rally begins
with Parc Expose in downtown Salem at 9:30am Central. First car out is at
10:30am and the first of fifteen special stages starts at 11:01am CT. Teams have
67.48 competitive miles to run before the podium finishers can pop bottles and
celebrate.
Check back here for more live updates throughout the day.
Day One Wrap-Up
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Travis Pastrana Leads After First Day of 100 Acre Wood Rally
After the first day of the 100 Acre Wood Rally, Subaru Rally Team USA’s Travis
Pastrana sits in the overall lead, 22 seconds ahead of Rockstar Energy Rally
Team’s Antoine L’Estage...
Read the full story here:
rally-america.com/news/603
Interview Podcasts
- Saturday, February 27, 2010
Listen to day one service interviews with Travis Pastrana, Dave Mirra, John
Cassidy and more on WorldRallySport.com.
Click here: bit.ly/aZEBI2
Burak Tuglu DNF’s on day one
- Friday, February 26, 2010
Burak Tuglu and Carrie Wilburn (Car #41) have DNF’d after clipping an embankment
that sheared a control arm. The crew will be re-starting Saturday morning.
Drama for John Cassidy
- Friday, February 26, 2010
Last Ditch Racing driver John Cassidy has retired for the evening after blowing
a gasket on SS2. The crew expects make repairs overnight and restart on
Saturday.
Class leaders going into SS4 and 5
- Friday, February 26, 2010
After three stages, Travis Pastrana leads day one of the 100AW Rally followed by
L'Estage and then Block.
In Super Production, the Hansons have over two minutes on Georgakopoulos with
Tim Penasack holding third in class.
Chris Dupplessis has a 10 second lead over Dillon Van Way going into the final
two stages of the evening and the Bushores are the third fastest 2WD crew.
Chris Greenhouse is out
- Friday, February 26, 2010
Chris Greenhouse/Christopher Gordon (Car #319) are out of the rally. Their crew
reported it was likely transmission failure.
Wiktorczyk is off on Special Stage 1
- Friday, February 26, 2010
Riders Energy Rally Team (Car #61) is off 4.4 miles into SS1 and has reported an
engine fire. The crew is OK. Evan Cline/Jake Blattner ( Car #669 Cline /
Blattner) are off at the same spot as Wiktorczyk with a blown head gasket.
Weather & Road Conditions
- Friday, February 26, 2010
It’s a beautiful, 45° F day in Stellville and the surrounding areas. The sunny
weather is expected to last all weekend long, and this year, it looks like we
won’t be seeing much snow! Competitors have reported that the roads are
hard-packed, somewhat dusty, and very FAST.
First Car Out at 4:00 Central
- Friday, February 26, 2010
The first car out is at 4:00pm Central from start in Steelville. Andrew
Comrie-Picard has withdrawn from the rally due to mechanical issues, so Travis
Pastrana will be the first to leave.
Shakedown Drama in Salem
- Friday, February 26, 2010
Several teams ran a practice stage this morning outside of Salem from 8:30 to
10:00 am Central and are now gathering in Steelville for Parc Expose. Andrew
Comrie-Picard (Car #20) blew his engine during the test and may not be able to
start. Evan Cline (Car #669) split his Mitsubishi GSX’s oil pan, but has since
repaired it and is expected to compete. No formal withdrawls have been made.
Will Ken Block Take ‘One for the Thumb’?
- Friday, February 26, 2010
The big question is…will Ken Block claim his 5th consecutive 100AW Rally win?
Block has dominated the fast-paced stages surrounding Salem for the past four
years and is looking to secure another victory here. These roads suit Block’s
aggressive driving style but, will he be able to push his new Ford Fiesta to the
top of the overall podium? You tell us.
Vote on the Monster World Rally Team’s outcome on WorldRallySport.com bit.ly/cVA7s1
Check out some footage from Ken and Alex’s testing session at the SayersBrook
Bison Ranch in Potosi, Missouri here: www.worldrallysport.com/node/5757
Seeded Draw Results
- Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Seeded Draw for the top four Speed Factors within the Rally America series
just took place at the Dent County Firehouse in Salem. Friday’s starting order
for the top four teams:
1. Andrew Comrie-Picard
2. Travis Pastrana
3. Antoine L’Estage
4. Ken Block
The complete start order list for Day 1 of the 100AW Rally will be published at
Friday’s Parc Expose in Steelville. Watch this space for live updates throughout
the weekend.
