A rally team also has a service crew ranging from a few friends to paid professional mechanics who work on the car at predetermined service area locations throughout the rally route.
A rally team tackles various types of driving during an event. The special stages are where drivers are on the throttle, driving as fast as possible on closed pieces of road controlled by the rally organizers. These special stages are linked together with transit sections where drivers do the speed limit and obey all traffic laws. Many events utilize secret control locations on public roads to insure public safety, making sure competitors obey speed limits or making determinations about vehicle worthiness in case of accidents or mechanical failure.
Today, rallying in the United States is more popular than ever. Thanks to the addition of rally cars to the X Games, American rallying is posed to grow like never before.
Due to the unique challenge that rally brings to drivers and navigators, it attracts the boldest personalities and the heartiest of souls. Two time Rally America Champion Travis Pastrana is infamous as a freestyle motorcycle daredevil, with many X Games medals and records to his credit, including the world's first double back flip. His teammate is extreme clothing company founder Ken Block from DC Shoes. These two men comprise Subaru Rally Team USA.
Other equally talented men and women include names like Tanner Foust, Matt Iorio, Chrissy Beavis, Andrew Comrie-Picard, Lauchlin O’Sullivan, Christian Edstrom and hundreds of others pepper entry lists from Maine to Oregon. Teams run in events ranging from drifting Michigan snow to Oregon rain to the hot and humid August days and nights in Northern Minnesota in August.
I feel that the readers of bleacherreport.com will enjoy the event reports coming for the 2008 Rally America National Championship, as well event reports from regional events. This season will also see Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom do double duty in both the National Championship and in the Production Car World Championship.
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