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HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS Issue HHandbrakesandbrakes airpins HHairpins g he world of rallyin & yyourour insightinsight intointo thet world of rallying CCoverover SStobarttobart iinn ‘‘home’home’ ooff rrallyingallying PPLUS:LUS: NNewew WWRCRC CCompetition!ompetition! IIssuessue 114343 • 229/079/07 - 004/084/08 hhttp://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.comttp://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.com FFeatureseatures NNewsews Josefine Beinke EEventsvents Austria crowns in Finland, P7 SARC,SARCA P14 new champ Martin Brady Sara wins Sweet reports, P8 APRC,AP P16 Lamb Rally MINI back in WRC,W P18 EvEvansa aims for WRC in 2011, P11 winwi in IROQ Contents / Issue 143 04 News Welcome to H&H! 06 Features Welcome to issue 143 of HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, your FREE weekly insight into 07 New rally a new chance the world of rallying! 08 A tale of two seats Another jam-packed issue for you, 10 All to fi ght another day dear readers, this week. We also have a 11 Back on the start lists new COMPETITION for you, dear readers, with the Stobart M-Sport Ford Rally Team! 12 Events For details, click to Page 18. 13 Idaho Rally International REVIEW As always, I hope you enjoy this 14 Volkswagen Rally REVIEW week’s exciting edition! 16 Int’l Rally of Queensland PREVIEW 17 Lurgan Park Rally PREVIEW Yours in Rallying, 17 Donegal Forestry Rally REVIEW Evan Rothman 18 WRC Rally Finland PREVIEW Contact E-mail us [email protected] Call us +27 83 452 6892 Surf us http://wp.me/pkXc To receive your FREE weekly HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS eMagazine, or if you’d like to share this with a friend please send your e-mail address to [email protected]. HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS is not a SPAM e-mail: email addresses are added to the mailing list voluntarily. Editorial Information Editor Evan Rothman Photojournalist Eva Kovkova Contributors Josefi ne Beinke, RallyBuzz, Martin Brady, WorldRallyPics, McKlein Images All content copyrighted property of HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, 2007- 10. This publication is fully protected by copyright and nothing may be reprinted in whole or in part without written permission from the editor. While reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure the accuracy of information from sources and given to readers, the editor cannot accept responsibility for any inconvenience or damage that may arise therefrom. THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF RALLYING Featuring European rally championships, British rally championships, Rally America events, international rally results and videos, as well as S2000 and WRC news. www.rallybuzz.com 6WLOR+HOPHW6DOH &DUERQ3LXPD+HOPHW#=$5 /DUJH;/DUJHDYDLODEOH :5&+HOPHW#=$5 65+HOPHW#=$5 ;/DUJH 6PDOO0HGLXP;ODUJH $YDLODEOHZKLOHVWRFNVODVW ATS Motorsport Telephone +27 11 6708400 E-mail – [email protected] Website: www.ats-motorsport.co.za NNewsews tthehe world’sworld’s latestlatest rallyrally nnewsews NEWS INTERACTIVE News: Stories posted DAILY UPDATES: H&H’s rally news on H&H’s website and Facebook Page For your convenience, here are the news items in this easy-to- click menu page: With the ever-increasing number of events and news items being published on a daily basis, HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS has published relevant news items to its website and Facebook WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP Page, and we also feature breath-taking videos from YouTube! Three questions to Dani Sordo: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1qh On Facebook: Greatest ever fi reworks show to crown Jubilee Neste Oil Rally Finland: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1qw MINI set to join WRC from 2011: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1qK Neiksans brothers in rallying Mecca: Finland: http:// wp.me/ppkXc-1rv EUROPEAN AND INTERCONTINENTAL RALLY CHALLENGE SERIES Luca Rossetti Passed Through Bosphorus: http://wp.me/ ppkXc-1q4 Schneebergland Rallye 2010: Baumschlager wins to secure Austrian title: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1qu BRITISH AND IRISH RALLYING On Twitter: H&H’s Interviews: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1od Pryce takes podium at Sweet Lamb: http://wp.me/ppkXc- 1pW Sweet success for Sara: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1q0 Orchard Motorsport Lurgan Park Rally 2010 – Preview: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1qs UAC Circuit of Ireland Retrospective Trial: http://wp.me/ ppkXc-1qC Co-driver Craig Parry splits from Leszek Kuzaj: http:// wp.me/ppkXc-1r9 Eugene Donnelly places last minute Lurgan Park entry: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1rt AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND RALLYING Simon Evans push for rally glory: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1rb Rifat and Scott ready for Queensland: http://wp.me/ Download the iRally app for your ppkXc-1re iPhone here for FREE! Queensland set for scintillating rally action: http:// wp.me/ppkXc-1ri AFRICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN RALLYING AND OFF-ROAD RACING All to fi ght another day : http://wp.me/ppkXc-1qn Basil Read/Bizhun Ford Rally Team back on track after Volkswagen Rally: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1pQ A brief outing for Hutchison and Coetzee on VW Rally: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1pL Full house for Team Total on VW Rally in Eastern Cape: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1pJ Johnny Gemmell wins VW Rally thriller for Castrol Team Toyota: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1pI Volkswagen Rally proves a big challenge for national rally fi eld: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1pB The iRally App is produced by Crown House Media, the BP Volkswagen rally team claims two podium fi nishes at well-known UK TV and radio agency which created, owns VW Rally: http://wp.me/ppkXc-1py and operates the popular World Rally Radio internet radio station. It is supported by Ford and is available to download FREE of charge via iTunes at http:// itunes.apple.com/gb/app/irally-2010-wrc-irc/ id347126364?mt=8 from the App Store on the iPhone by typing iRally into the Search window. FFeatureseatures yyourour insightinsight intointo thethe wworldorld ooff rrallyingallying FEATURES NEW RALLY A NEW CHANCE Story: Josefi ne Corinn Beinke We have had a tarmac test recently, Pictures: M-Sport and we featured this in HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, to boost our confi dence on After a busy few weeks of regional tarmac for the future FSTi rounds. There and national rallying, Josefi ne we fi nished in a very strong position, Corinn Beinke, HANDBRAKES & which we felt restored our confi dence HAIRPINS “Ladies in Rallying” in the car after we experienced two campaigner, teams up with Christian retirements in it this season already. Reidemann and his Ford Fiesta RS “With backing from ADAC for their second outing in the FSTi at Stiftung Sport, we are looking forward to the WRC Rally Finland this weekend. this rally. We have never been to Finland With the bad luck of the before, but we know that it is a very fast Vodafone Rally Portugal behind them, and challenging rally. Our main goal is the young German duo of Reidemann to gain a lot of experience and, as it was and Beinke, who were forced to retire in Portugal as well, to fi nish the rally,” from the lead of the FSTi in their very concluded Josefi ne. fi rst outing, look to repeat their pace but A total of fourteen FSTi crews to also score maximum points. have entered this weekend’s rally. Seven “We are looking to get back of those entrants are Finnish drivers, and into the fi ght for the title of the FSTi at they will probably be very hard to beat the fastest rally on 2010’s calendar, the for the European crews. Neste Oil Rally Finland,” said Josefi ne.” FEATURES A TALE OF TWO SEATS Story: Martin Brady were brilliant and helpful. John Buffum, RedBull arch, plenty of places to spin or Pictures: Rally America the famous and much lauded US rally make a mistake under much spectator driver, was the man in charge of the scrutiny. Regardless, we cleared both Rallying is about the unexpected, recce convoy and he knew just how to runs clean again fi fth fastest, but Ken the challenging of man and machine keep it competitor-friendly. A one pass Block in the Ford Fiesta was blitzing a against the elements. Little did I recce of the supplied notes is all we were trail at the top of the fi eld now in a lead realise that in competing on the New allowed, but it was enough just to get of over 5sec. England Forest Rally in the American dialled in and familiar and make a few After service the real forest state of Maine that I would tackle small but necessary changes. From recce stages began, fast fl owing, rhythmical the rally with two different men in it was straight to shakedown where and challenging. However, our challenge two similar machines. the fi rst run in the car unfortunately ended almost two miles into the stage. My travel to the event itself underwhelmed me. Seamus’ car is The water temperature shot up to 120 was fraught: I left Ireland almost seven running to open spec with larger degrees and we limped to the end of the hours delayed due to bad weather restrictor and more Group A and WRC stage knowing that the end was nigh and in JFK airport in spec parts returned to service. Hopes were that a New York upsetting These Open Class than I would head gasket was the cause and solution, fl ight schedules. I be used to but the team found that the head was was travelling to cars have such sitting in badly warped and there was no way we join Irishman and Group N could continue even in the second leg of now Georgia native power that they spec Evos, the rally as a re-entry. Seamus Burke to and it was It was a disappointment to compete in his Open are a pleasure clear that travel so far and recce with no practical Class Mitsubishi to co-drive in; is something sleep after delayed fl ights and then for Lancer Evolution IX was wrong Seamus Burke and I to have the rally on what was to be the akin to a WRC car.
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