I guess as a rallyist, it was inevitable. I’ve been racing the Evo since it was bought new back in 2006 — coming up on almost 6 years — and never had so much as a dent in the body work from leaving the road. Unfortunately that’s all changed, and I crashed the car.
I entered [...]

I finally did my first gravel event in the Evo — the Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs in New Richmon, Quebec. The event is very fast, technical, and is packed with spectators. Like Perce-Neige, our main goal was to finish the event with the car in one piece so that I can learn as much as possible.
We had [...]

By far the best (and perhaps only redeeming) part about the move out east for me has been access to new race events. Up until now it’s been about getting to do new tracks and finally getting to rally, but I now get to add a new favorite to this — hillclimbs.
Yes, [...]

After years and years of wanting to do proper rally events, and over a year after deciding to finally convert my Evo to North American “Open” class specs, I finally completed my first event in the car. The event is called Rallye Perce-Neige; an incredibly difficult event run [...]

If you read this blog regularly, you know just how frustrated I have been with the handling of my car. Coming out of a very well set-up, rear wheel drive BMW M3 (running on Hoosiers and a race suspension, of course), I have been completely frustrated with the nasty understeer and inconsistency of the Evo. [...]

Wow.
My first ever rally event, as Bill Arnold’s co-driver in the 2003 Targa Newfoundland, made me realize that there was this whole other form of motor sports that made road racing just seem so TAME. Then, the first time I drove a car in anger on a loose surface (at the Team O’Neil Rally School [...]

The cage is in the Evo, safety gear is installed, and the car is getting close to final racing trim. With only a few months to go before the car has to get on a transporter for the cross-continent trip to Newfoundland, it’s now time to do as much testing as possible to sort everything [...]