Wrc!

[jessickascarling]

who's watching? we recorded most of what we missed while we were grocery shopping. I'm so excited! octoberfest, hooters and wrc... this is the life! too bad subaru isn't actually competing, but at least this is a start!

[arlia11]

I JUST got Speed channel. I am going to have to do this soon.

And since I have speed channel... WHO WANTS TO HAVE WRC MEETS at my apartment :D

[xxthat girlxx]

I don't have a DVR anymore so I'm bummed that I can't record stuff. Meet sounds like fun Margo.

[jessickascarling]

is it on the speed channel too?! we saw it on discovery hd theater.

[Axis]

I JUST got Speed channel.

I don't think it's on Speed, that whole channel's reserved for f-ing NASCAR. BOOOOOOOOOOO!!! :rolleyes:

[arlia11]

Oh darnit. It used to be on Speed so I just assumed.

Oh well :(

[jessickascarling]

ya, dan told me a while back it was on speed but they removed it for nascar and that's why we couldn't watch it televised anymore. but now we can! YAY!

[Jonathan]

Yeah, Dan told me a while back it was on Speed TV but they removed it for NASCAR and that's why we couldn't watch it televised anymore. Now we can! YAY!
Can you record it from Discovery HD ?

[jessickascarling]

why yes, yes you can! we have it on auto record.

[Colt45-N-2ZigZag]

i have all of them on my tivo still. i think i watch each race 2 or 3 times lol

[sleepy04]

:banana: I am watching Mexico Rally Stages right now!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kidpinkers]

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers


This guy is awesome. Pretty much my hero right now.

Thought I would share.

[xxthat girlxx]

http://jalopnik.com/5497042/how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers


This guy is awesome. Pretty much my hero right now.

Thought I would share.

Yeah, that's pretty bad ass. :cool:

[sleepy04]

Yea, except it's not entirely true... i saw this story a couple of months ago on HT. Cool story though.

The "Rally America" class isn't part of the WRC. However the cars in the class raced on the same stages as the WRC. The pro classes are WRC, P-WRC, and the WRC Cup, then there is the Rally America class.

He came in 3rd in a group of 9, four of which didn't finish and one of which didn't count, so 3rd out of 4. Bill Caswell's final time was 5:15:18. To put this in perspective, Loeb's time was 3:42:41.7 and the slowest of the professionals was 4:38:31.7.

Rally America / Rally Mexico standings:
1st - Ricardo Triviño (MEX) - Peugeot 206 - 4:08:15.4
2nd - Francisco Name (MEX) - Mitsubishi DE - 4:56:04.6
3rd - David Jassan (MEX) - Mitsubishi Evo IX - 5:15:50.8
4th - William Caswell (USA) - BMW - 5:15:18.4
5th - Guillermo Fonseca (MEX) - Peugeot 206 - 5:53:48.1
6th - Jorge Gonzalez (MEX) - Peugeot 206 - DNF
7th - Guillermo Campos (MEX) - Clio Sport - DNF
8th - Guillermo Sanchez (MEX) - Clio Sport - DNF
9th - Pablo Gutierrez (MEX) - Mitsubishi Evo IX - DNF

To say this guy competed against WRC Pros is akin to a bracket racer racing at NHRA National Event and saying he was going up against John Force. Same track - not near the same class.

Here are the sources:Rally America results:
http://www.rallymexico.com/contentEs...ally%20America


WRC results are here:
http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk...0&rally_id=MEX
(but you wont find Rally America results here since it's not a WRC class)