That’s a right nice Merry Christmas for Petter Solbereg & Chris Atkinson, Subaru just fired them … OK, not fired them, but it just recently came out that Subaru has decided to not compete in the WRC (the World Rally Championship) any longer. They site the usual reasons these days: World economic downturn. But there’s [...]
And in today’s episode of “As The Camshaft turns” … OK, as you know, Honda bailed from F1 racing with about 17 hours notice. ‘Too expensive’ they cried. ‘World economic downturn’ they moaned. Although actually it is looking more and more that getting their rear wings handed to them by the likes of Toro Rosso [...]
Has it been a year already? The calender says so, but it seems closer, two months ago, maybe four, that the news that Colin McRae, one of the worlds great rally drivers was killed in a helicopter crash along with his son and two others. Private aviation seems to be about as forgiving of racing [...]
Now this is the kind of news I like to hear. I like it when a car company actually gives me more in the new model (especially more power), and I really like it when they see fit to not charge me an arm and a leg for it. The upcoming 2009 Subaru WRX will [...]
Supposedly (oh PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease) Subaru is actually thinking of putting this into production. “This” is a Prodrive built Impreza WRX STI, known as the 380S. As you hopefully know, Prodrive is the outfit that runs Subaru’s factory WRC effort, having last won the drivers crown with Petter Solberg (form child disco-dance champion of all of Norway) [...]
It was May of 2006, my 1995 Maxima’s check engine light came on. The car had plenty of body problems but had run great in my three or four years of owning it. The only thing that had needed replacement over that time was the idler pulley. I knew the car was ten years old [...]
Well this is interesting … Subaru, along with Prodrive, who runs their world rally team for them, have decided to debut their new Impreza WRC2008 earlier than previously announced. From what I gather (since SpeedTV doesn’t cover the WRC any more, which is lame-lame-lame), Subaru drivers Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson have been slavering to [...]