Rally – OffRoadRacer.com https://offroadracer.com Your Source For Off Road Racing News Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:32:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5 https://offroadracer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-off_road_racer_favicon-1-32x32.jpg Rally – OffRoadRacer.com https://offroadracer.com 32 32 RALLY ESTONIA, HIGHER SPEEDS DO NOT CHALLENGE THE SOFT SCOPIONS https://offroadracer.com/rally-estonia-higher-speeds-do-not-challenge-the-soft-scopions/ https://offroadracer.com/rally-estonia-higher-speeds-do-not-challenge-the-soft-scopions/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:10:06 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=418855 Tartu, 23 July 2023 – It is easy to say Estonia. The Baltic country’s rally, generally considered to be among the fastest but not among the toughest of the season, has reserved a few surprises this year, mainly related to the incremental speed of the cars. The increased pace made the rally’s familiar challenges more difficult to manage: road surfaces marked by increasingly deep tracks passage...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/rally-estonia-higher-speeds-do-not-challenge-the-soft-scopions/feed/ 2 SARDINIA RALLY, HARD TYRES IN THE SPOTLIGHT https://offroadracer.com/sardinia-rally-hard-tyres-in-the-spotlight/ https://offroadracer.com/sardinia-rally-hard-tyres-in-the-spotlight/#comments Wed, 31 May 2023 03:22:27 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=378897 Milan, 30 May 2023 – The WRC arrives in Sardinia for the second consecutive stage on gravel and celebrates the 20th anniversary of the race, won in its first edition in 2004 by Petter Solberg on a Subaru. For the occasion Sebastien Ogier will be back at the wheel of his Toyota and will try to challenge his team-mate Kalle Rovanpera for the championship lead in a rally which, as usual...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/sardinia-rally-hard-tyres-in-the-spotlight/feed/ 4 RALLY PORTUGAL, THE PREFERRED TYRE STRATEGY WAS THE ALTERNATION BETWEEN HARD AND SOFT https://offroadracer.com/rally-portugal-the-preferred-tyre-strategy-was-the-alternation-between-hard-and-soft/ https://offroadracer.com/rally-portugal-the-preferred-tyre-strategy-was-the-alternation-between-hard-and-soft/#comments Sun, 14 May 2023 15:56:25 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=366346 Porto 14 May 2023 – The Rally Portugal confirms to be one of the toughest races of the Championship for some stages such as those of Lousā and Gois on Friday, which in the second pass were enormously bumpy and strewn with numerous stones. An exhausting situation, however expected, which required very careful handling of the tyres and cars by the drivers, as they themselves often remarked.

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/rally-portugal-the-preferred-tyre-strategy-was-the-alternation-between-hard-and-soft/feed/ 4 RALLY PORTUGAL, WATCH OUT FOR THE SECOND LOOP ON FRIDAY AND TO THE RUTS IN THE GROUND ALWAYS LURKING https://offroadracer.com/rally-portugal-watch-out-for-the-second-loop-on-friday-and-to-the-ruts-in-the-ground-always-lurking/ https://offroadracer.com/rally-portugal-watch-out-for-the-second-loop-on-friday-and-to-the-ruts-in-the-ground-always-lurking/#comments Thu, 11 May 2023 21:04:27 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=364220 Porto, 11 May 2023- A wide variety of road surfaces, from sand to tarmac, with rapid changes within the same special stage, but above all deep ruts that in some special stages can create serious problems for the wheel system and the whole car, as happened last year. This is what emerges from the post-reconnaissance analysis by Pirelli engineers, that confirm the Rally of Portugal as a kind of...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/rally-portugal-watch-out-for-the-second-loop-on-friday-and-to-the-ruts-in-the-ground-always-lurking/feed/ 3 PORTUGAL RALLY, TYRE CHOICE AND MANAGEMENT DECISIVE FOR FINAL VICTORY https://offroadracer.com/portugal-rally-tyre-choice-and-management-decisive-for-final-victory/ https://offroadracer.com/portugal-rally-tyre-choice-and-management-decisive-for-final-victory/#comments Mon, 08 May 2023 17:04:34 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=361336 Milan, 8 May 2022 – The hostile and changeable Portuguese gravel roads host the second gravel rally of a world championship that, at the fifth race of the season, is still in search of its definitive leader. The test in Portugal will be dominated by alternating slippery surfaces on the first passages and sharp ones on the second, requiring careful management of the tyres. TYRES IN PORTUGAL In...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/portugal-rally-tyre-choice-and-management-decisive-for-final-victory/feed/ 7 CROATIA RALLY, DIRT ON THE ROADS COMPLICATES DRIVERS’ WEEKEND https://offroadracer.com/croatia-rally-dirt-on-the-roads-complicates-drivers-weekend/ https://offroadracer.com/croatia-rally-dirt-on-the-roads-complicates-drivers-weekend/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2023 01:51:59 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=352186 Zagreb 23 April 2023 – At the Rally Croatia, Toyota won with Elfyn Evans a tough, almost gravel-like race in which the tyres had to do a super job to ensure grip, resistance, and durability at the same time. The most common choice of tyres was a mix of P Zero hard (prime) and soft (option), although differently combined between the various teams, with the soft prevailing now and then the hard.

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/croatia-rally-dirt-on-the-roads-complicates-drivers-weekend/feed/ 3 Baja 300 Powerdays https://offroadracer.com/baja-300-powerdays/ https://offroadracer.com/baja-300-powerdays/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:01:53 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=296126 This groundbreaking event took place in Germany and brought the worlds of off-road and rally racing together. “Powerdays” is the brainchild of rally savant Armin Schwartz and features four classes of off-road vehicles racing on the same course, at the same time. The half-hour program showcases rally drivers Ken Block, Petter Solberg, and Gigi Galli, along with off-road racers Jesse James...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/baja-300-powerdays/feed/ 3 Group B https://offroadracer.com/group-b/ https://offroadracer.com/group-b/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:34:06 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=291873 The Group B era of rally was arguably the craziest era in all of motorsports. It was a supreme illustration of the ultimate horsepower-to-weight ratio with the most spectacularly violent cars the world had ever seen, boasting four-wheel-drive and in some cases over 500 brake horsepower. Sources at the time claimed that a Group B car could accelerate from 0-60mph (96km/h) on a gravel road in just 2.

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/group-b/feed/ 6 Rebelle Rally Field Update: STAGE 1 https://offroadracer.com/rebelle-rally-field-update-stage-1-2/ https://offroadracer.com/rebelle-rally-field-update-stage-1-2/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:43:15 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=216134 October 8, 2022 “Today will be a long a complex day. Pace is the name of the day,” said Rebelle Founder Emily Miller during the start of the morning meeting on today’s Stage 1. With sweeping views of Mt. Jefferson, Stage 1 loop covered 242 kilometers and included 18 checkpoints (CPs) and an On Time Enduro. The course consisted of crossing over numerous high passes including Northumberland Pass...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/rebelle-rally-field-update-stage-1-2/feed/ 2 The NORRA 500 rally and the pine forest https://offroadracer.com/the-norra-500-rally-and-the-pine-forest/ https://offroadracer.com/the-norra-500-rally-and-the-pine-forest/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:38:36 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=214486 We all know the common areas of Baja during races like Ojos Negros, San Matias, San Felipe, Colonet or San Quintin to mention a few, all of them share the same desert landscape, and as beautiful they are, this spots in Baja are usually more restricted and hard to get usage permit. This is the case with “Parque Nacional Constitución de 1857” commonly known as “Sierra de Juarez”...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/the-norra-500-rally-and-the-pine-forest/feed/ 4 Rally Greece, Hyundai triumphs in the most difficult race of the year for tires and cars https://offroadracer.com/rally-greece-hyundai-triumphs-in-the-most-difficult-race-of-the-year-for-tires-and-cars/ https://offroadracer.com/rally-greece-hyundai-triumphs-in-the-most-difficult-race-of-the-year-for-tires-and-cars/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:23:02 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=206365 Testoni: “Never seen such a challenging rally in two years. The confirmation are the marks on the tyres, which withstood terribly challenging surfaces” By winning in Greece, Estonia’s Robert Virves wins the FIA Junior WRC Lamia, Sept. 11, 2022 – The Rally of Greece, the penultimate gravel round of the World Rally Championship and final stage of the Junior WRC, closes confirming its reputation as a...

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]]> https://offroadracer.com/rally-greece-hyundai-triumphs-in-the-most-difficult-race-of-the-year-for-tires-and-cars/feed/ 4 Rally Belgium, Tänak wins even on asphalt with hard tires https://offroadracer.com/rally-belgium-tanak-wins-even-on-asphalt-with-hard-tires/ https://offroadracer.com/rally-belgium-tanak-wins-even-on-asphalt-with-hard-tires/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2022 07:17:25 +0000 https://offroadracer.com/?p=206362 Hyundai driver wins an unusually dry race with stable weather on two out of three days After Friday’s mixed tyre strategy, hard compound tyres were the drivers’ only choice in Saturday and Sunday stages Testoni: “The P Zero Hard asphalt tyres allowed drivers and cars to express their full potential even in low grip conditions.” Ypres, August 21, 2022 – The Ypres Rally Belgium, the third-to-last...

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