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L’Estage and Richard Ready to Move Forward
Posted on 09. May, 2013 by Dean.
The Oregon Trail Rally was supposed to usher in new hopes for Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard. Instead, the pair crashed out after an exceedingly rare mistake by L’Estage, with devastating results. In an interview with Flatovercrest.com, both L’Estage and Richard spoke candidly about the off.
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Rallying at the Ends of the Earth
Posted on 06. May, 2013 by Dean.
American rally driver, and 2011 Rally America 2WD champion Wyatt Knox set out looking for an adventure when he travelled to Tierra del Fuego to rally a Suzuki at the ends of the earth. What he found was so much more than a weekend of special stages.
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In Photos: Shannonville Stages
Posted on 26. Apr, 2013 by Dean.
When driven on race tracks, rally cars aren’t the most graceful vehicles. Tall suspension and fat tires make rally cars gnarly on gravel stages, but when fitted with low profile pavement tires and big wheels, they tend to look a bit awkward. Despite this, every year the hardcore gravel-heads show up at the Shannonville Motorsports Park.
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Launch Control Goes Inside Rallying
Posted on 04. Apr, 2013 by Dean.
Rallying in Canada is a community knit together with spirit and enthusiasm, even if the individuals involved are geographically stretched out across the country. This often means that the folks that we report on inhabit a strange realm somewhere between subject and confidant. Equally, those behind the keyboard and the lens are sometimes more than [...]
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L’Estage to drive ex WRC Mitsu
Posted on 03. Apr, 2013 by Dean.
Antone L’Estage and Nathalie Richard are among the very best in North American rally, with trophy collections to prove it. But as fast drivers like David Higgins and Ken Block move to faster and faster cars, the privateer Rockstar team has been pushed to the very limits of their equipment. A blistering drive at Sno*Drift [...]
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Richard and Fagg Control Pace, Win Perce Neige
Posted on 05. Feb, 2013 by Dean.
The 2013 Canadian Rally Championship opened on February 2, with the 43rd edition of the Rallye Perce Neige, in Maniwaki, Quebec. Renowned for brutally long stages that extend late into the night, icy and snowy roads with banks that will just as often suck a car in as bounce it back onto the road, Perce [...]
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Victory for Subaru at Tall Pines
Posted on 24. Nov, 2012 by Dean.
Pat Richard and Alan Ockwell of Subaru Rally Team Canada claimed a victory at the final round of the 2012 Canadian Rally Championship, the Rally of the Tall Pines in Bancroft, Ontario. Richard and Ockwell finally won an event after a season full of mechanical problems continually sidelined the team. Although the pair were unable [...]
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L’Estage Takes Early Lead at Pines
Posted on 24. Nov, 2012 by Dean.
Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard took an early lead at the Rally of the Tall Pines, the final round of the Canadian Rally Championship. The pair have already secured the Canadian Rally Championship, and so have nothing to lose and appeared to be pushing hard on the early stages, despite using gravel tires, a decision [...]
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PFR is Fourth Win of 2012 for L’Estage and Richard
Posted on 14. Oct, 2012 by Dean.
Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard won the 2012 Pacific Forest Rally, the fifth round of the Canadian Rally Championship, held in Merritt, B.C. “It was a good rally for us,” said L’Estage. “After we won the championship, I just wanted to have fun and drive fast. Everything was perfect, not a scratch on the car.” [...]

