Editor’s Note: 2010 American 2WD champion Chris Duplessis, the current points leader in 2WD after winning at both Sno*Drift and 100 Acre Wood, will not be at the third round of the championship this weekend at the Oregon Trail Rally. more...

CrazyLeo Urlichich and his co-driver Carl Williamson are currently third overall in the 2012 Oregon Trail Rally, third event in the 2012 American championship.

Urlichich and Williamson pushed their 2007 Subaru "Beast" to within 48.5 seconds of rally leader David Higgins on Friday night during the four spectator stages at the Portland International Raceway. more...

Defending Canadian rally champions Antoine L'Estage and co-driver Nathalie Richard are close after the first four stages of the Oregon Trail Rally at PIR. They trail 2011 American champions David Higgins and co-driver Craig Drew by 9.1 seconds going into the forest and farm stages east of Portland tomorrow and Sunday.

L'Estage is working to adapt himself to a new sequential transmission in his 2011 Rockstar Mitsubishi Evo X. He said he likes the change from the H pattern dogboxes he's used for the past decade, but it's very different. more...

The 'point-and-squirt' phase of the 2012 Oregon Trail Rally is over with defending American rally champions David Higgins and Craig Drew holding a 9.1 second lead over 2010 champion Antoine L'Estage at the end of day one.

Higgins won all four of the traditional Friday night spectator stages on and around Portland International Raceway. The fans love them but the drivers can be pretty conservative. You can't win the rally on those PIR stages but you can certainly lose it with an off that would damage the car. more...

Editor’s Note: 2010 American 2WD champion Chris Duplessis, the current points leader in 2WD after winning at both Sno*Drift and 100 Acre Wood, will not be at the third round of the championship this weekend at the Oregon Trail Rally. more...

The class leaders of the Super Production and Two-Wheel-Drive categories will not be contesting the Oregon Trail Rally this weekend. Both 2011 Super Production champion Travis Hanson and 2010 2WD champion Chris Duplessis were unable to make the event. more...

The 2012 Oregon Trail Rally (OTR) gets off to a wet start Friday evening as 61 entrants prepare to contest the event's opening stages at the Portland International Raceway (PIR). Oregon Trail is the first West Coast stop on this season's National Calendar following a two month break since the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood at the end of February. more...

The WRC Academy season opener is over in Portugal with Northern Ireland's Alastair Fisher on the top step of the podium. It was a clean drive in the Vodafone Rally de Portugal as the WRC Academy launches into season two. The Academy portion of Rally Portugal ended on Saturday's SS13.

Fisher was more than 40 seconds in front of Australian Brendan Reeves in second. Sweden’s Pontus Tidemand was third. He has a headstart for the Rookie Award in the WRC Academy competition. more...

Ken Block and co-driver Alex Gelsomino of the Monster World Rally Team scooped their sixth-ever Rally in the 100 Acre Wood win this weekend in Salem, Missouri.

Block took the lead of the event from the outset and never looked back. He won all but two of 100 Acre Wood's 17 Special Stages including both passes of the 0.52-mile Potosi Super Special Stage and finished the rally with a margin of 29.3 seconds. more...

Lauchlin O'Sullivan and co-driver Scott Putnam won their day long battle with 2011 Super Production champions Travis Hanson and his father/co-driver Terry Hanson at the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood in Missouri.

The fight saw O'Sullivan start the last two stages .4 seconds behind the Hansons. But at the end they were 43.9 seconds ahead in fourth place overall.

Something must have clicked for O'Sullivan and Putnam over the last two loops of the two day rally. The team fought minor issues all weekend with their car including engine ignition and tire problems. more...