Canadian Antoine L’Estage took the first win of the 2008 Rally America championship this weekend in northern Michigan, after race leader Travis Pastrana struck a deer and retired late in the rally. “I’m very happy for our win, but I’m speechless,” said L’Estage at the finish....

Two-time Rally America PGT champion Matthew Johnson will step up to Open class competition with Team RalliSpec for the 2008 season, campaigning all rounds of the Rally America National Championship and vying for entry into the X Games with the Hankook RalliSpec Rally Team. Subaru rally specialist RalliSpec Ltd. (http://www.rallispec.com), based out of New Jersey...

Australian rally standout Andrew Pinker, who finished second in the Rally America National Championship Series last year in only his first full season of Rally America competition, has set his sights on the series title in 2008. Pinker will again partner with co-driver Robbie Durant on the RockStar Energy Drink Rally Team...

Quotes from selected Rally America National Championship Series drivers about the Sno-Drift Rally on Jan. 25 and 26 in Atlanta, Mich. (Drivers listed in alphabetical order)...

CPD Racing will field 2007 Rally America Rookie of the Year Kyle Sarasin in the series’ elite Open class in 2008. Following a successful two-day test in the snow earlier this month, the team was suitably impressed with Sarasin’s performance to upgrade the 19-year-old from his...

Building on a successful 2007 season that featured unprecedented close competition and the emergence of new series stars, the nation’s top rally racing drivers will kick off the 2008 Rally America National Championship Series season at the demanding Sno*Drift rally...

On Dec. 3 and 4, a cold, wet storm pounded Oregon and Washington, swelling streams into raging torrents and causing rivers to rise to unimaginable heights – as was the case of the Nehalem River, which flows through the town of Vernonia, Oregon. Rally competitors will be familiar with the small town of Vernonia, for each year the Oregon Trail Rally overtakes the surrounding streets and local school…

BMX rider Dave Mirra, one of the most successful X Games athletes ever, made a successful rally racing debut at The Rally Of The Tall Pines, the final round of the 2007 Canadian Rally Championship. Mirra, who finished 22nd overall, attacked the icy Canadian roads in a Monster Energy Subaru Impreza rally car prepared by Vermont SportsCar...

Subaru Rally Team USA driver Travis Pastrana clawed into the lead in the final stages of the Lake Superior Performance Rally on Saturday to take the win – and his second Rally America driver’s title. “It was pretty tight,” said an enthusiastic Pastrana at the finish line. “We won. We didn’t crash, and we won the championship too…”

The stage is set for a three-way shootout between Andrew Pinker, Travis Pastrana and Ken Block for the Rally America title as the series heads to northern Michigan for the final race of the 2007 season, the Lake Superior Performance Rally on Oct. 26-27. Entering the LSPR event, RockStar Energy Drink Rally Team...