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Maniwaki, OC, Canada -- Quebec driver Antoine L’Estage, of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and his co-driver Nathalie Richard (of Halifax, NS) won this weekend’s Rallye Perce-Neige, the first round of the 2011 Canadian Rally Championship. Winners of the Canadian, North American and Rally America championships last year, the Rockstar Royal Group duo kicked off this Canadian season with a textbook rally and now lead the hunt for the championship title. more...

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Subaru Rally Team Canada’s Pat ‘Rocket’ Richard is in Maniwaki, Quebec this weekend for the opening round of the 2011 Canadian Rally Championship. Richard is a four-time Canadian National champion and is the only driver besides Antoine L’Estage to have ever won both the Rally America Championship and the Canadian Rally Championship in the same year. more...

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Maniwaki, QC, Canada -- The 2010 Canadian, American, and North American Rally Champions, Antoine L’Estage of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Qc and Nathalie Richard of Halifax, NS will return to competition this weekend to contest Maniwaki’s Rallye Perce-Neige, the first round of the 2011 Canadian Rally Championship. more...

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Toronto, ON, Canada -- The first round of the Canadian Rally Championship will be run this weekend out of Maniwaki, Quebec, capital city of the Upper Ottawa Valley. Three award-winning and champion crews will head a 10-car Mitsubishi Brigade among the 42 starters. Triple Crown winners Antoine L’Estage and co-driver Nathalie Richard from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will be first on the road. more...

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Atlanta, MI, USA -- Subaru Rally Team USA driver Dave Mirra achieved a rally career best 2nd Overall finish at the season opening Sno*Drift Rally via a nail biting comeback late in the rally. more...

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Atlanta, MI, USA -- Travis and Terry Hanson win the Sno*Drift Rally in Atlanta, Michigan, the opening round of the 2011 Rally America Championship. The Hansons piloted their 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX STi to victory with a huge lead of 3 minutes and 53.1 seconds over Subaru factory driver Dave Mirra, who took 2nd overall in a 2011 Impreza WRX STi with a total time of 2 hours 31 minutes and 13.6 seconds. Rounding out the overall podium was Joseph Burke, who finished only 5.2 seconds behind Mirra in a 2006 Mitsubishi Evo 9. more...

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Antoine L’Estage had unparalleled success in 2010 when he and co-driver Nathalie Richard piloted their Rockstar Mitsubishi Evo X to the top of six national podiums in the U.S. and Canada. The Quebec-based crew swept up three major North American titles and picked up a Bronze medal at X Games 16 in the process. Now fans want to know if L’Estage will return to defend his titles. more...

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Former road racer Verena Mei is set to make her competitive RallyCar debut this January 28-29 at the Sno*Drift Rally in Atlanta, Michigan. Mei will compete in the Rally America season opener co-driving for Wyatt Knox in the Team O’Neil Mazda Speed 3.

Mei plans to launch a rally career within the Series and her maiden event is only the first step in her transition from track-based motorsports to fulltime rallying. Mei’s switch from Drifting and Time Attack was prompted by her desire to try her hand at the challenges and unpredictability that the sport of rally offers competitors. more...

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Subaru Rally Team USA heads into the opening round of the 2011 Rally America Championship with a new addition to the team, driver David Higgins. Higgins brings a wealth of talent and experience to Subaru's factory effort and will undoubtedly be a force to contend with.

David spoke exclusively to RallyCar about his return to American rallying as SRT USA's new driver and shared his perspectives as an international rally star.



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Atlanta, GA, USA -- Embarking on their second season in the Rally America National Championship, Joseph Burke and co-driver Alex Kihurani look to improve on their impressive 2010 results. Although the team only contested five of the six rounds of the series, Burke still managed to capture the Rally America Rookie of the Year honors. For 2011, Burke will make the move up to the open class as he contests all six rounds of the Rally America Championship. Burke will be on the line in a Mitsubishi during the first round this week at Sno*Drift. more...