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    North American Rally Championships 2015

    Higgins won the Sno*drift 2015. Is this the first rally win for a sedan four door Subaru since when?
    http://youtu.be/PaOTrH_5c2I
    http://youtu.be/WYwjEIIfbi0
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeakiwi View Post
    Higgins won the Sno*drift 2015. Is this the first rally win for a sedan four door Subaru since when?
    http://youtu.be/PaOTrH_5c2I
    http://youtu.be/WYwjEIIfbi0
    You see the entry?
    13 so called National cars
    36 cars total, most extremely modest spec...
    First stage Higgins cruises and in only 11,2 km has 1 minute on the 6th place guy..

    Third stage:
    13,3 km
    6th a full 1m8s behind
    12th more than 2 minutes behind 11.4 seconds per km slower

    This is not competition, its a massacre...

    The roads are very wide, very straight....people say "everybody would average 80mph ---130km/hr---in summer, but on road car un-studded road tires most of the field fight to average 70-75km/hr..

    Reports were "You can see he's just cruising, not really trying".

    Such is the state of the pinnacle of American rally.
    I hope SRTUSA are proud.
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    Sounds like they should send Higgins to Canada to have a bit of competition...

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    Canadian RC starts on 6th Feb.
    http://www.rallyeperceneige.com/

    Sno*drift - similar happened when Buffum drove the Quattros to large win margins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Munkvy View Post
    Sounds like they should send Higgins to Canada to have a bit of competition...
    I lurv Canajian events----albeit the sure seem to have always run almost all stages very short KM ------
    (I don't even remember the gear shift pattern in under 5km....and transiting 45km for a 2,2km stage 3 times is a bit much, eh?)

    but aside from L'stage the situation is similar..


    And in Buffum's day---that's when I began rally myselfin his Quattro days---he was---and i just glanced at 1986 season----2 to 4 minutes typically against then NZer Rod Millen, except when Millen would beat him--usually less than 2 minutes... Even on the then hardest or longest event , the old "Press on Regardless, winning time Buffum 3h48m30s and Millen 3h52m59s..
    Not so bad that I'd write this:
    They must have been chewing the fingernails to the second knuckle.. Such pressure! Such coolness under pressure!

    Barely 9 minutes to second..One mistake and everything change!
    Davey's time--->2:21:34.5 - -
    2 -9:05.5
    3 -11:13.2 -2:07.7
    4 -21:53.7 -10:40.5


    And only 11 minutes to third and right on the heels a tight battle 3rd and 4th, and only 21--nearly 22minutes to 4th..

    Its doesn't get any tighter than that, maybe a record in rally racing...I can see why there were so few speccies, the risk for heart attack for all those locals is just not worth the risk.
    John Vanlandingham
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    Rod Millen's 'LeadFoot Festival' is this weekend.(One of his 'retirement projects')
    A tar hillclimb up his driveway.
    Livestreamed this year for a cost because the rock band is probably not cheap to hire.
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU150...e-streamed.htm

    Patrick Richard has retired? according to this.
    http://www.bybillwood.com/antoine-le...ampaign=buffer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeakiwi View Post
    Rod Millen's 'LeadFoot Festival' is this weekend.(One of his 'retirement projects')
    A tar hillclimb up his driveway.
    Livestreamed this year for a cost because the rock band is probably not cheap to hire.
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU150...e-streamed.htm
    Amazing. Beautiful..
    John Vanlandingham
    Sleezattle WA, USA
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    So second victory for the WRX STi 2015, with Antoine l'Estage (taking the seat of Rowe) wining the Perce Neige. He faced more or less the same kind of opposition than Higgins in Sno*Drift ...



    http://ewrc-results.com/final.php?e=...-maniwaki-2015

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