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HHandbrakesandbrakes IIssuessue 139139 JJuneune 20102010 &HHairpinsairpins yyourour insightinsight intointo thethe worldworld ofof rrallyingallying CCoverover LLoixo Miclotte win ix & Miclotte win ssixthixth YYprespres RRally!ally! FFeatureseatures inside FFeatureseatures Josefine Beinke: this week: Goodwood Festival In Training of Speed Preview Contents / Issue 139 04 News Welcome to H&H! • Horsey enters Rally Estonia Welcome to issue 139 of HANDBRAKES & • Higgins headlines Rally Isle of Man HAIRPINS, your FREE weekly insight into • Burkart signs one-off S2000 drive the world of rallying! Another jam-packed issue for you, 08 Features dear readers, this week. The Geko Ypres 09 Chris Patterson joins P. Solberg Rally this past weekend took centre stage as all eyes focused on the Belgian asphalt 10 Goodwood Festival of Speed ina thrilling battle for the overall win. 11 Catching up with Josefi ne Beinke As always, I hope you enjoy this week’s exciting edition! 12 Events 13 Rally Costa Rica REVIEW Yours in Rallying, 14 RSAC Scottish Stages Rally REVIEW 15 Pikes Peak Hill Climb REVIEW Evan Rothman 16 Geko Ypres Rally REVIEW 18 Intl Rally of Whangarei 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, Cover photography by HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS’ or if you’d like to share this with a friend talented photojournalist Eva Kovkova. 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. 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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. 6WLOR+HOPHW6DOH &DUERQ3LXPD+HOPHW#=$5 /DUJH;/DUJHDYDLODEOH :5&+HOPHW#=$5 65+HOPHW#=$5 ;/DUJH6PDOO0HGLXP;ODUJH $YDLODEOHZKLOHVWRFNVODVW ATS Motorsport Telephone +27 11 6708400 E-mail – [email protected] Website: www.ats-motorsport.co.za News the world’s latest rally news NEWS Pirelli Star Driver Peter Horsey enters performance in the X Games.” Block, a three-time medalist at X Games, has Rally Estonia for Finland preparation cultivated a tremendous following among the action sports Two Pirelli Star Drivers, local hero Ott Tanak and Kenyan Peter community with his Gymkhana videos on YouTube. Block Horsey, will start in the Mad-Croc Rally Estonia. For Horsey partnered with Ford earlier this year, running dual programmes it will be his fi rst start with new co-driver Calvin Cooledge. in the Rally America championship in a Fiesta and the World Horsey is entering Rally Estonia to prepare for Rally Finland. Rally Championship in a Focus RS WRC. Peter Horsey said: “On top of the Pirelli Star Driver He proved earlier this season that not only is the Ford programme this year, I plan to enter various events around Fiesta fun to drive, but it is also reliably fast as he piloted the Europe as well as my local championships in Kenya. I have Monster World Rally Team Fiesta to victory in the 100 Acre selected Rally Estonia as it was recommended by various Wood Rally in March - the fi rst win for a Fiesta in Rally America people, including fellow Pirelli Star Drivers Ott Tanak and competition. Kuldar Sikk. The roads are similar to the ones I will face in “X Games is one of the most fun and unique events of Rally Finland and, additionally, this will be the fi rst rally I the year for me,” said Block. “I really enjoy hanging out in Los compete in with my new navigator Calvin Cooledge. I wanted Angeles with all my friends and racing in a very intense and this fi rst rally to be one with suffi cient mileage and similar crazy atmosphere. Plus, this year, I get to actually drive the conditions to our next WRC rally, Rally Finland. My objectives Fiesta at X Games – the car that beat me in 2009.” for this rally are to gain experience of the roads and spend Also returning to X Games in a Fiesta is the man valuable seat time with Calvin. My primary aim is to fi nish whom everyone will be trying to beat, 1999 Indianapolis 500 without superally. The car I will be using is my own Mitsubishi winner Kenny Brack, who made a memorable X Games debut Lancer Evolution X, The same car that I used in the fi rst round last year by winning the rally competition. The 1998 IndyCar of the British Rally Championship in March.” Series champion retired from full-time racing in 2006 but still Tanak, who will drive his own Group N Subaru drives competitively in special events. Impreza, says that competition in Group N will be close as “I participated in X Games last year as a one-off many top international drivers are participating in Mad-Croc favour to a friend but I really enjoyed it and when Olsbergs, Rally Estonia. Ford and the X Games wanted me to return to defend my title, Ott Tanak said: “We will take this rally very seriously, I was more than happy to commit,” said Brack. “It felt really because there are so many fast guys in the starting list. Of good to be back in the host seat in the United States last year course we will go for the win in Group N but it’s not going to and X Games is a phenomenal event. As I look to defend my be easy.” title this year, I know I will be a target. Last year was great, Mad-Croc Rally Estonia is held on south Estonian but this year there will be a different track and I am looking roads on 16 - 18th July. It is the third round of Estonian forward to the new challenges.” Rally Championship and the only Estonian race that is on the ROCKSTAR Energy Drink drivers Tanner Foust and FIA calender. Brian Deegan will also return in a Fiesta. Foust took his race- - Credit: www.rallyestonia.ee prepared Fiesta fi ve-door hatchback to a bronze medal in last year’s X Games, narrowly losing in the semi-fi nal to Brack. He Ford Fiesta to defend Gold Medal at has continued racing a Fiesta in European rallycross with the Olsbergs MSE team. Foust is an accomplished driver, having the X Games with star driver line-up won in a wide range of motorsport disciplines, including X The Fiesta, Ford of Europe’s best-selling model, will return to Games. the prestigious X Games event in the United States next month “X Games is always a highlight of the year for me,” to defend the gold medal won during its games debut last year. said Foust, the 2007 X Games Rally champion. “It is great Four specially-prepared Fiesta cars will fl y the fl ag for heading into the competition knowing that in the Rockstar Ford at the X Games Rally Competition (29 July - 1 August) in Energy Ford Fiesta I am going to be in the best equipment Los Angeles. The driver line-up will be led by American action in the fi eld. The Fiesta rally car is literally one of the fastest sports icon Ken Block, and also includes 2009 X Games gold race cars with doors on the planet and I think it is the car to medalist Kenny Brack, third-placed Tanner Foust and 10-time beat. The Fiesta is absolutely perfect for the rally discipline medalist Brian Deegan. and it has performed well for me in the European Rallycross The Fiesta competition cars will be prepared and competition.” run by Swedish team Olsbergs Motor Sport Evolution, which Moto superstar Brian Deegan, Foust’s ROCKSTAR operates Ford customer competition programmes in both the team-mate, fi nished last year’s X Games in a strong fourth. A United States and Europe. 10-time games medallist, including three gold medals for Moto The cars will be based on the hugely-successful Fiesta X Best Trick (2002, 2003, 2005), Deegan is in his third year in passenger car, of which Ford has sold more than 830,000 the rally competition. around the world, 730,000 of which in Europe, since it entered “I’m really excited about driving the Ford Fiesta again the market in October 2008. The Fiesta was the best- this year at X Games,” said Deegan. “After coming so close last selling car across Europe in the fi rst quarter of 2010. Fiesta year in my fi rst run with Ford, I look forward to taking home production for North America recently started in Mexico, with some medals this year with the Fiesta.” the car now being delivered to dealers and customers across This year the X Games rally segment will comprise the United States. two competitions, the Super Special that Brack won in 2009, “The Fiesta’s gold medal-winning debut in the rally and a European-style rallycross where four cars will race competition at X Games last year captured the spirit of the simultaneously against each other. The Ford foursome of car,” said Gerard Quinn, Ford of Europe’s motorsport chief. Block, Brack, Deegan and Foust will drive their Fiestas in both “The best-selling Fiesta road car will also form the basis of competitions.