Rally America

16/06/2020

Very excited to see some rallying in Ohio!

The 2020 Southern Ohio Forest Rally presented by Wagner Subaru Supplemental Regulations are posted https://www.southernohioforestrally.com/supplemental

Entry for Southern Ohio is set to open this week, with a limit of 75 total cars.

Due to a reduced national schedule in 2020, the ARA has implemented a new procedure which will give national teams a 24-hour entry window before regional entries will be allowed to register.

National entries will open on Wednesday, June 17 at Noon Eastern Time.

Regional entries will open on Thursday, June 18 at Noon Eastern Time.

The Subaru Early Entry discount program codes for SOFR are as follows:

National Entries use: SOHNAT

Regional Entries use: SOHREG

There will be no on-site registration available

All competitors and crew members must be licensed by the ARA

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12/03/2020

Travis Pastrana Returns to Subaru for 2020 Rally Season; Joined by Teammate Brandon Semenuk

Subaru Motorsports USA today announced a revamped driver lineup for the 2020 American Rally Association (ARA) season, highlighted by the full-time return of American rally icon and action sports star Travis Pastrana. A five-time national rally champion with Subaru and one of the world’s best-known action sports athletes, Pastrana will look to capture his sixth U.S. title in his first full season since 2017. He will be joined by Canadian rally driver and freeride mountain bike legend Brandon Semenuk, who moves to Subaru Motorsports USA for his first full season of U.S. rally competition.

“I’m stoked to be back in a Subaru again!” said Pastrana. “The last couple of years I’ve been itching to get back in a rally car full-time and compete for a championship, and Subaru is where it all began for me in rally. I’m also really excited to have Brandon as my teammate. He’s got a ton of talent and I know he’ll be fast once he gets a feel for the car, so I’m expecting some great competition between the two of us.”

“This season is going to be a blast,” Semenuk said. “I’ve been rallying for the last few years, but the STI is a big step up in performance. Travis knows the STI really well, so I’m going to take it one event at a time to learn as much as I can and get my pace up. The car is really exciting to drive and I’m getting more confident with it in testing. I can’t wait to put in some stage miles and see how we measure up.”

Travis Pastrana debuted in a rally car in 2005 having already made his mark in motocross and supercross competition, and immediately established himself as a force on four wheels. At the 2006 X Games, Pastrana landed the first double backflip ever attempted in freestyle motocross competition and the next day took home the Games’ inaugural Rally Car gold medal, making him an instant two-sport star and helping to raise the profile of rally for a generation of young action sports fans. Pastrana would go on to win his first U.S. rally championship that year with Subaru Rally Team USA and repeat as champion three more times through 2009.

After moving on to other projects in 2010—including racing in rallycross and NASCAR, and co-founding the Nitro Circus action sports franchise—Pastrana returned to a WRX STI rally car for the 2016-2017 seasons, winning the inaugural American Rally Association title in 2017 and setting a blistering record of 5 minutes 44 seconds at the Mt. Washington Hill Climb. In 2018 and 2019 Pastrana joined Subaru on a part-time basis for rally events and the annual Nitro Rallycross (NRX) event, while also designing the outrageous NRX track layout with its NASCAR-style banked corners and signature tri-level jump complex, including a massive 90-foot gap jump. He will be joined by longtime co-driver Robbie Durant for the 2020 ARA season.

British Columbia native Brandon Semenuk has been putting his mark on rally in the U.S. and Canada since 2010. Competing first in a production WRX and then in a Subaru Canada-supported Crosstrek rally car, Semenuk has racked up five overall Canadian Rally Championship (CRC) event wins and a pair of North American Rally Cup (NARC) titles in the last three years. His achievements in U.S. events include an impressive 4th overall at Idaho Rally in 2018 – competing in a UTV against bigger, more powerful Open 4WD Class cars – and another 4th place finish in a privateer car at 2019’s Oregon Trail Rally with co-driver John Hall.

Like Pastrana, Semenuk’s rally career hasn’t meant slowing down on two wheels. His freeride mountain bike highlights include three FMB World Tour Gold Medals, three Red Bull Rampage victories—most recently in 2019—and five Red Bull Joyride titles, making him one of the most decorated freeride MTB athletes in history. He also stars in the Raw100 video series produced by Red Bull and his production house Revel Co., performing groundbreaking MTB stunts.

2020 SUBARU MOTORSPORTS USA RALLY CALENDAR

100 Acre Wood Rally
March 20-21

DirtFish Olympus Rally
April 25-26

DirtFish Oregon Trail Rally
May 29-31

Southern Ohio Forest Rally
June 19-20

New England Forest Rally
July 31-August 1

Muscatell Ojibwe Forests Rally
August 28-29

Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally
September 18-19

Lake Superior Performance Rally
October 16-17

About Subaru Motorsports USA
Subaru Motorsports USA is managed by Vermont SportsCar and proudly supported by Subaru of America, Inc., Yokohama Tire, Method Race Wheels, DirtFish, KÜHL and RECARO Automotive.

05/03/2020

Our friends Ken Block, Alessandro Gelsomino along with the HooniganTeam, will be competing in their only US stage event for 2020 at Southern Ohio Forest Rally

New year means new livery for my Ford Es**rt RS Cossie V2. I dropped my new livery for the 2020 Cossie World Tour live in front of 1/4 million views (in pers...

15/08/2019

Best of luck to our good friend Jim Beaver at this weekend!

05/06/2019

25/04/2019

by Chris Leone // Website // Twitter Images via DirtFish (1); Subaru Motorsports USA (2) Get 15% off

20/04/2019

03/04/2019

This was our 1990 Audi Coupe Quattro that we ran in the Rally America Series, Open Light class from 2014-2018. Due to the extreme nose weight and tiny power-...

26/03/2019

Rochelle made the Racer Dave Rally Racing team some really cool t-shirts for this year. In two colors even!! Thank you and can't wait for our next event!

25/03/2019

Photo by: Tara Hurlin

25/03/2019

We are nearing 50 entries for SOFR 2019....and there seems to be some kind of invasion going on....

Just a reminder..you have 7 days to take advantage of Early Registration...

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24/03/2019

19/03/2019

Today in history: in a tight battle with teammate David Higgins 75, Travis Pastrana earns his first victory on the stages in six years at Rally in the 100 Acre Wood!

The Rally in the 100 Acre Wood is the second race of the Rally America National Championship and is known as one of the most scenic. Named after the storybook home of Winnie the Pooh, the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood is a picturesque race with enough twists and turns to test every driver’s ability. ...

18/03/2019

Today in history: Arkadiusz Gruszka makes it back-to-back wins to start the 2017 season, while PMR Motorsports' Pat Moro returns to action with a runner-up finish, at Rally in the 100 Acre Wood!

17/03/2019

Today in history: Fetela Rally Team rewrote history, overcoming a crash from two years prior to win the 2018 edition of Rally in the 100 Acre Wood!

17/03/2019

Mc Kenna Motorsport #97 with the UPSET victory at ! Subaru Motorsports USA completes the podium in second and third. Congratulations to all the finishers!

16/03/2019

One day down, one to go at this year's ! Seeing David Higgins 75 and Craig Drew 75 atop the standings is no surprise, but Mc Kenna Motorsport #97 are still hot on their heels!

15/03/2019

The bad news: scores are still incomplete for some of the top crews competing at today in live timing. The good: through four stages, we have a pretty intense battle for the overall podium shaping up! Can anyone catch David Higgins 75 and Craig Drew 75?

15/03/2019

kicks off today! Here are the first five cars scheduled to hit the road today. Who are you picking for the win?

06/03/2019

Counting down the days already to DirtFish Olympus Rally!

04/03/2019

Who's excited to see Savage Dave Rally return to the stages later this month at 2019 100 Acre Wood Rally (Official Event)? We sure are!

This car sounds pretty wild, almost like a jet turbine blasting its way through the forest. This is Wallingford's M-sport Ford Fiesta R5.
Only got to talk briefly to him but this car and his team were also testing this weekend. This car got run through the ringer in a good way. Back to back to back to back runs non stop the car did not skip a beat. We will see them in Missouri also for the 100 Acre Rally in March.

04/03/2019

Head to all week long for coverage of Rally México!

by Chris Leone Images via Red Bull Content Pool The third round of the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship season sees the series make its only North American exc

03/03/2019

Challenging conditions made for an interesting Sandblast Rally on Saturday! Here's our recap:

A wet and messy Saturday in South Carolina saw Martin Donnelly and Brian Doherty post the fastest overall time at Sandblast Rally, completing all nine stages in a total time of 1:27:12. They were followed by Nick Bragg and Dominic DePaoli, whose time of 1:36:55 in their Audi Quattro was good enough....

03/03/2019

Yesterday, we dropped the latest issue of ! Hit the link to read more:

Don't miss the third issue of "This Month in Rally"! We've got 28 more pages of rally content detailing some of the biggest stories of the past month and looking ahead to a massive March for North American rally. Our latest issue includes:

03/03/2019

What's up, Tower City Race Team?