Rally & Off-road

e-miglia 2012: E-mobility for everyone

The “the-electric-avenue Expo”(tea) and the “e-miglia” are connected through these common goals: to make electric mobility tangible, practicable, understandable and appealing for everyone. Both events, the exposition Friedrichshafen from May 17th–20th,2012, as well as the international e-rally from August 12th-16th,2012, will show how an electrically operated sports car gains momentum and how an e-bike speeds up.

The exhibition “the-electric-avenue” in Friedrichshafen is one year older than the international rally e-miglia. Both initiatives are part of the Rebel Media Group. CEO Christian Herles: “We're convinced that the future belongs to alternative actuation. A lot of our energy is focused on this subject matter, which we highlight while taking many aspects and consumer needs into consideration. With the e-miglia we want to present e-mobility as sporty and emotional on an international level by showing a big media-based commitment. The trade fair supplements the offer for the end consumer with comprehensive information, lectures and test drives.”

The high-octane world of Global RallyCross, which mixes the energy of motorsports with the attitude of action sports, will bring its unique style of racing to Charlotte Motor Speedway as part of a racing double-header during the Coca-Cola 600 race weekend.

(CONCORD, NC - APRIL 21, 2012 - RIS) Ricky Johnson added to his long string of victories with a nearly three-second margin of victory over Adrian Cenni, in the night's finale. Cenni suffered a flat tire, held off long enough to wait for the competition yellow, went into the pits for a new tire and returned to the track in last place, fighting back to finish a closing second place.

Bryce Menzies easily headed the first practice for Pro2 trucks in the TRAXXAS TORC season opener at the Dirt Track at Charlotte. Bryce’s best lap of 42.970 seconds bested CJ Greaves’ time by over .8 second.

(CONCORD, NC - APRIL 19, 2012 - RIS) With a short time off between races, Jimmie Johnson returned to his off-road racing past by taking crew chief Chad Knaus for a short ride in the safety truck for the TRAXXAS TORC Series. Practice at the Dirt Track at Charlotte opened for the season-opening event and prior to the official laps, Johnson drove his crew chief around, followed by various media types getting a ride with the truck's regular driver.

Traxxas TORC Series – short course off-road racing – returns to Charlotte Motor Speedway

e-miglia 2012: Already almost a classic.

Third year of the international rally for electric vehicles

• ·         Dates: August 12th - 16th, 2012
• ·         Route: From Munich to St. Moritz - approximately 800 km zero-emission rally
• ·         Participation registration: From March 1st , 2012 on

For the third year already, the e-miglia is starting on a tour through four Alpine countries with purely electrically powered vehicles. What started as a big adventure for the participants, partners and organizers in 2010, has established itself today and is a constant in the still young world of new mobility. With the e-miglia, e-mobility could and can demonstrate that the different vehicle types master big challenges without difficulty. The proof of the suitability for everyday use of those vehicles available on the market, is beyond question, since the average 43 km which a German

April 21-22, 2012 will mark the return of Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series action to the all-new Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park in Lake Elsinore, CA. Construction is being completed on the challenging .9-mile long dirt short course. All-new track amenities will include a purpose-built grandstand complete with luxury sky boxes, race control tower, eagle's nest spotter tower, VIP track-side RV parking and a front stretch hot pit so the fans can see all the action.

Lake Elsinore enjoys a long heritage of off road racing tradition dating back to the 1960's when competitors raced through the city streets and surrounding area in the legendary Lake Elsinore Grand Prix, made famous by the late actor Steve McQueen, in the 1971 cult documentary movie, "On any Sunday". The new Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park will also host the season finale of the 2012 Lucas Oil AMA Outdoor National Championship.

Lake Elsinore Motorsports Park - Track Introduction
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series  

Justin Davis wins Class 1

Las Vegas rookie Menzies captures SCORE Overall season points
And SCORE Trophy Truck crown in 2011 SCORE Desert Series   Johnson earns Motorcycle Overall title, Brown claims second straight ATV Overall point crown; other class champs
Include five titles by RPM Off-Road’s Matney (3) and Stacy (2), L. McMillin, Matlock, H. Steele, Chamlee, Udall,
Navarro IV, J. McMillin, Bevly III; to be honored Saturday at SCORE Awards Night at Atrium Hotel in SoCal      

      LOS ANGELES—Racing all season long with a maturity level well beyond his years, Las Vegas rookie Bryce Menzies closed the books on the 38th year of Sal Fish’s SCORE Desert Series, the world’s foremost desert racing series, relishing in his first season in the marquee SCORE Trophy Truck racing division by earning the Overall and SCORE Trophy Truck point championship by one of the closest margins in the 18-year history of the sport’s most spectacular racing class.
     Menzies, just 23 years old, will receive his awards Saturday in SoCal at the Atrium Hotel, located adjacent to John Wayne airport in Irvine, during the annual SCORE Awards Night celebration honoring the 2011 SCORE Desert Series point champions, the winners of the 2011 SCORE Off-Roadsman of the Year awards and the 21 winners of the 2011 SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards. A total of 497 racers competed in the 2011 season, covering 1,762.02 dusty, dirty, grinding and grueling desert racing miles during the five-race season.

Hungary’s Kris Antal Will Compete In The Unlimited Division At The 90th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb In Colorado Springs  

Colorado Springs, November 28------------In recent summers at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, as well as throughout the history of the nation’s second-oldest motor sports race, the Unlimited Division has garnered intense interest.

It peaked last year when Japan’s Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima finally broke the ten-minute barrier, driving his 910-horsepower GoPro Suzuki SX4 Hill Climb Special up the 12.42 mile course to the 14,110-foot summit in 9:51.278, the event’s version of the breaking the four-minute mile by Roger Bannister in 1954.

Now that the course is fully paved for the first time in its history, race officials expected that there would be an increase in the number and experience of entries in various divisions and classes, accompanied by the increased popularity and awareness of the event internationally.

So, it’s no surprise then that the first two entries in the Unlimited field on July 8 are accomplished international drivers.

44th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000
Nov. 17-20, 2011 – Final round of five-race 2011 SCORE Desert Series
Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Post-race quotes

PRO CARS & TRUCKS SCORE TROPHY TRUCK
ANDY MCMILLIN, No. 31 (First in class and first overall four-wheel vehicle. Andy started and drove to Race Mile 200, Scott McMillin drove from RM 200 to RM 511 and Andy drove from RM 511 to the finish.) – We started 10th. At the Baja 500, Bryce (Menzies) started in front of me and put a spanking on me so I didn't want to let that happen in this race. I got a pretty quick pace off the starts and splashed fuel at mile 77 and by the time we got to the summit, I nerfed Larry Roeseler, got around Rob MacCachren, passed Curt LeDuc, Jesse Ashcraft. MacCachren got me back later in the summit and we were battling back and forth off his bumper until he pitted for fuel. Menzies was out front and I got by Kory Scheeler on the silt bed and I just started putting my pedal forward. I knew we were going to change drivers at Borrego and put my dad in so I wanted to get a couple of minutes on everyone just in case. Unfortunately, we had a three-and-a-half minute pit stop and we took off out of there in third and my dad had a flat tire. My dad did a great job on the San Felipe loop. We kept our pace and kept our position and Bryce was doing work out front and was running away with it. Luckily he had a little issue and we were able to make up time. I got back in the truck and Bryce pulled over for fuel and we got around them. That was the most intense race I've ever been a part of. I was 30 seconds to them and Bryce was 30 seconds to me on the beach. It was a freight-train free-for-all. It was such a blast. It was so much fun. I'm glad to win my second Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 with my dad. It means a lot.
CO-DRIVER SCOTT McMILLIN said: He (Andy McMillin) gave me the roughest part to drive; it kicked my butt. It's amazing that after almost 700 miles we are sitting here with three teams and any one of us could have won. My hat is off to them. They did a great job and made us a better competitor. Sal (Fish), you just keeping making this race tougher and harder and I was just squinching all the way around that 250 miles. For our family, this has been a tradition. This is the 35th year our family has been racing this. My brother's coming in, I've got my daughter out there and Mark's other son and my dad is looking down on us and taking care of us.

278 Official Starters

Andy & Scott McMillin capture SCORE Trophy Truck, Overall 4wheel victory;Norman/Cody/Holladay win overall 2wheel at 44th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000

 Davis wins Class 1, Matlock’s team captures overall ATV victory;
Menzies finishes third in SCORE Trophy Truck to capture class & 2011 overall SCORE point title
for 705-mile loop race that started and finished in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico       ENSENADA, Mexico—For the second time in three years, the Southern California son and father race team of Andy and Scott McMillin have etched their names again on the granite history of the world’s most legendary desert race and along with the team of Kendall Norman/Quinn Cody/Logan Holladay advanced their part in motorsports history by capturing the overall 4wheel and 2wheel victories in the 44th Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race. The season finale of the five-race 2011 SCORE Desert Series ended late Saturday in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
     Andy McMillin, 24, and his father Scott McMillin, 51, of San Diego, teamed as they did in this race in 2009 to capture the overall 4wheel title in the granddaddy of all desert racing in their No. 31 McMillin Realty Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy Truck. The featured SCORE racing division has a race-high 29 starters.
     Norman, Santa Barbara, Calif., Cody, Los Olivos, Calif. and Holladay, Buellton, Calif., team on the No. 1x JCR Honda Racing Honda CRF450X withstood the challenge to cover the 705-mile course in the fastest time of all 278 starters in the race.  In the unlimited Class 1 that had 25 starters, 18-year old Justin Davis, Chino Hills, Calif., powered his Chevy-powered ESM open-wheel desert race car to his third class win of the year in his first year in the ultra-competitive class.

Ensenada, Mexico – November 14th, 2011 – Davy Jones will compete this week in the 44th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 for the second time in his career as the experienced road racer continues to expand his motorsports resume and looks to add another achievement to his long list of international wins. 

Jones will join the Patent it! Race Team as the rookie team closes out its first full season in the highest level of international professional off-road racing, SCORE.  The team competes in the SCORE Lites/Class 12 category and currently finds itself fourth in the championship coming into the 2012 season finale.   Driving the #1201 Foddrill chassis alongside Jones throughout the rugged 692.82-mile off road event will be Steve Lisa, Tony Lisa and Chuck Hemmingson.  Between them they have won hundreds of road races, but all of them have limited experience in the off-road world.  Despite being rookies in this form of motorsports, the group has completed every mile in the previous three races contested in Mexico this season and they will look to carry on with this consistency as they shoot for their first win in Baja.

FINALE Day 4 of the e-miglia 2011: Engadin – St. Moritz 

Silent walk-over by titleholder Tim Ruhoff                   

• Ruhoff wins the e-miglia for the second time, category and overall winner
• Rally for electric vehicles with various vehicle concepts: C-Zero, Electric RaceAbout, eMini, E-M3, eRuf, i-Miev, iON, Jetcar, Mega Van, Nissan Leaf, Raleigh Dover, Smart, Stromos, Tesla, Think, Tazzari, Twike

• Equal-zero emission: 800 km from Munich, over the Grossglockner and Bolzano to St. Moritz

Day 3 of the e-miglia 2011: Bolzano – St. Moritz

• Rally for electric vehicles August 1st - 5th, 2011
• The finish is within reach 
• The 31 protagonists: C-Zero, Electric RaceAbout, eMini, E-M3, eRuf, i-Miev, iON, Jetcar, Mega Van, Nissan Leaf, Raleigh Dover, Smart, Stromos, Tesla, Think, Tazzari, Twike
• Constancy rally through four alpine countries: D-AUT-I-CH
• Equal-zero emission: 800 km from Munich, over the Grossglockner and Bolzano to St. Moritz

Traxxas TORC course at The Dirt Track @ Charlotte Motor Speedway takes shape

Team Ducati Wins Again At Pikes Peak!

Colorado Springs (June 27)-------------Carlin Dunne won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Sunday on the Ducati Multistrada 1200, setting an all time event motorcycle record with a clocking of 11:11.32 in winning the touch 1205 CC division, giving the Italian brand its second consecutive victory in the historic race and earning Dunne the title of Motorcycle King of the Mountain.

His effort broke the old motorcycle mark of 11:33.70 set in 2010 by Gary Trachy in winning the 750 class.

First Female driver since 1984 wins at Pikes Peak on record-set​ting day; Randy Schranz sets new mark with 37th event finish and a win!

Nobuhiro (“Monster’) Tajima of Japan has broken the all-time record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this afternoon with a blistering 9:51.278 (world record) over the 12.42 mile course that ends at the 14,110-foot summit of the mountain above Colorado Springs. His effort eclipsed his old mark of 10:01.4 set in 2007 in the Unlimited Division. The 60-year-old Tajima drove his 910hp Monster Sport SX4 Hill Climb Special to victory and became the first competitor to eclipse 10:00 since the race began in 1916. He averaged almost 76 miles per hour during his record run.

Pikes Peak Int. Hill Climb Race Day Drivers Order (Autos)

Colorado Springs
 
Colorado Springs, -Drivers and racers from ten nations, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, New Zealand, Sweden, Mexico, Australia, Great Britain and the USA, will challenge the terrain and the altitude  during the world’s most famous hill climb- the 89th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, on Sunday, June 26.
 
It all began in 1916 and this one could be special.

Speedy Women Might Become Queen Of The Mountain At Pikes Peak International Hill Climb In Colorado Springs On June 26
 
Colorado Springs, --The nickname may have begun with Louis Unser on Pikes Peak, then passed on to his famous nephew Bobby, who won 13 titles on the hill.
 

“King of the Mountain,”  is a tag that has been bestowed on many male competitors who have won at the storied Pikes Peak International Hill Climb since 1916, most recently five-time Unlimited Division champion Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima of Japan.
 

It’s Official, The Details Are Out - Dacia unleashes 850-hp GT-R-powered Duster "No Limit" Pikes Peak challenger to be Driven by Jean-Philippe Dayraut!
 
Colorado Springs, - -Dacia has decided to take on the world's most famous and most challenging hill climb, the 89th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, on June 26 in Colorado Springs.

Layne Schranz Is Coming Back To Pikes Peak Inspired By His Effort To Help Tornado Victims In Alabama And With His Sights Set On Victory
 
Colorado Springs -GEICO driver Layne Schranz has had a long year to think about the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
 
There is probably no worse fate for a racecar driver than to lose a race by the smallest of margins, but that is exactly the outcome that bedeviled Schranz and his #7 GEICO Chevrolet Monte Carlo a year ago. 
 
Schranz navigated the Gecko up the 12.42-mile course, which features 156 twisting turns, in what he thought to be a winning effort in the Super Stock Division.  But when the #7 GEICO Chevrolet arrived at the 14,110-foot Summit, he learned that he fell short by just .075-seconds, an almost incalculable difference, and finished 2nd.  
 

Mayor Steve Bach Will Buckle Up In Porsche Pace Car For The 89th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb On June 26 In Colorado Springs
 
Colorado Springs, May 31---------Steve Bach, the newly-elected Mayor of Colorado Springs, will kick off the 89th running of the storied Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in the passenger’s seat of the official Pace Car, a Porsche Boxster Spyder, on Sunday, June 26.
 
The official Pace Car is provided again this summer by Porsche of Colorado Springs for the nation’s second-oldest motor sports event behind only the Indianapolis 500.
 

Colorado Springs, April 25----------With electric automobiles popping up like dandelions across the landscape of American driving, it’s no surprise that they will be part of the field at the 89th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 26.

The latest entrant in the Electric Division is professional racer Chad Hord (Felch, Michigan), who will be driving a stock 2011 Nissan Leaf at Pikes Peak, with its high response 110 hp,  80kW AC synchronous electric motor capable of delivering speeds as much as 90 miles per hour.

Chad Hord Will Pilot New All-Electric Nissan Leaf At The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb On June 26

e-miglia 2011: Second edition of the International Rally for ELECTRIC Vehicles

• The dates: August 1st - 5th, 2011
• Aiming higher: Grossglockner High Alpine Road new in the e-miglia route
• Aiming further: Finale in St. Moritz
• A total 800 km in four days through four countries: Germany-Austria-Italy and Switzerland
• Registration open for everyone, provided you have a valid driver’s license and an e-mobile
• Maximum of 30 participants in the constancy rally

Buenos Aires brought the New Year in with a bang today with the beginning of the 2011 Dakar Rally. Considered one of the top five adventures in the world of motor sports, it is on the Bucket List of every off road racer and race fan. Synonymous with grit, determination, and guts, the Dakar, over the next fifteen days, will demand every thread of character from the four-hundred-plus who crossed through the grand stage arches this afternoon. Celebrating its third year in South America, the rally continues to draw larger crowds and expanded international attention.

Cordoba, Argentina (January 2, 2011) – Today marked the official start of the 2011 Dakar Rally. From this point forward, it is serious business for the competitors vying for the coveted Dakar title. Stage 1, the first of 13 timed stages in this year’s rally race, included a 566-km road section and a 222-km special that began in Victoria and ended in Cordoba.

Charlotte, NC (December 21, 2010) – 2011 marks the 33rd running of the international test of endurance and determination known as the Dakar Rally, which for the third consecutive year will take place in the South American countries of Argentina and Chile after security threats in Mauritania in 2008 caused the ASO, the race organizers, to move the race from Africa.  With more than 9,500 km (5,903 miles) to be completed from January 1st to 16th, 2011, the Dakar Rally is easily the “world’s most grueling race.”  

Toyota 4-Runner, Scores Second Place Finish.

 Ivan “Ironman” Stewart and Toyota Team take Second-Place in Stock Mini Class in SCORE Baja 1000’

The Toyota 4Runner Team and Ivan “Ironman” Stewart brought home a second place finish at the 43rd Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.  22-time class winner and desert racing’s veteran known as the “Ironman” was the third and final driver behind the wheel.

TANNER FOUST DRIVES FORD FIESTA TO VICTORY IN INAUGURAL RALLYCAR US RALLYCROSS EVENT

The venue may have changed, but the combination of the Tanner Foust and the Ford Fiesta proved once again to be unbeatable claiming victory at the inaugural RallyCar US Rallycross event.  Last month the combination of Foust and Fiesta dominated X Games 16 winning double gold medals in the ROCKSTAR Fiesta. This weekend Foust and Fiesta were once again was the class of the competition winning the Rallycross AWD Main event by a commanding 4.24 seconds over their closest competitor.

ANNUAL END OF SUMMER ‘MOW DOWN’

NEW NASCAR®-INSPIRED LAWN MOWER RACING SERIES

 FEATURES INAUGURAL U.S. OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

Bolzano/Rovereto, August 6th, 2010. The e-miglia 2010, the first pure international electric rally in the world, is over. After four days, five Alpine passes and 560 kilometers, 24 of the 25 e-vehicles, which started on Tuesday in Munich, rolled over the the finish-line in Rovereto, Italy in the evening. It’s already certain: after the successful premiere, there will also be an e-miglia in 2011. The first partners have already confirmed their support again.