Stage Notes Radio

The 2009 Oregon Trail Rally is complete. Here is the conclusion of the Stage Notes Radio coverage of OTR09.

Correction: Dave Mirra was docked one place due to the lack of rear power window switches and wiring.  The Keeney’s took the win and Dave placed 2nd. The accouncment was made after we published the show so the info in the show on SP results is in error.

OTR09 is coming to a close. Just three stages are left for the teams to improve their positions.  Here is the SNR update for Day 3 service.

Day 2 of Oregon Trail 2009 is in the books.  The leaderboard starts to spread out a bit as Travis Pastrana pulls ahead from the competiton for the overall lead.  Meanwhile in the Super Production class, attrition is the main story as several competitors fall victims to today’s stages.  Finally, we talk to some of the winners of today’s Shunpiker Stages Regional Rally.

The cars are back from the stages for their second service and the competition is tight. Travis Pastrana holds on to the lead but not without ACP applying the pressure. In SP, Wiktorczyk is trading top times with Mirra meanwhile Dillon Van Way is pulling ever ahead in two wheel drive.

With one stage down the leaderboard has been shuffled quite a bit.  Travis Pastrana put 6 seconds on Tanner Foust to move into the lead, while Travis’s teammate Ken Block set the fastest time to move into third place.  We catch up with the top drivers and co-drivers to get the scoop behind the first forest stage of the event.

Friday stages at OTR09 have ended with Tanner Foust in the lead over Travis Pastrana. We caught up with many of the current  leaders and the winners of the regional rally. Here our recap of the top stories and the days events from the drivers and codrivers in their own words.

It’s a warm and sunny Friday afternoon as the 2009 Oregon Trail Rallyis set to get underway at Portland International Raceway.  We catch up with some of the top teams at Parc Expose and get the scoop on what they expect this weekend.  

Tune in to find out how they anticipate the new roads and dry weather will affect their chances for victory this weekend.

This is the first in a series of podcast covering the 2009 Oregon Trail Rally. The Stage Notes Radio team is hitting the road to cover the event on the spot.  In this preview show we set the stage for Oregon Trail and speak with Doug Heredos, one of the organizers of the rally.

We start off this episode by catching up with Eric Burmeister to get an inside look at the new events and new format for MaxAttack! this year.  Eric explains what goes on behind the scenes and tells us why 2009 is the summer of MaxAttack! 

Our featured guest this episode is Andrew Comrie-Picard, better known as “ACP”.  Andrew is currently tied with Tanner Foust for the points lead in the Rally America Championship.  We talk to Andrew about his plans for the rest of the season in both the U.S. and Canada, what it’s like to drive a Mitsubishi amongst a sea of Subarus, and talk through his spectacular end over end roll at last year’s X-Games. 

Finally we bring our listeners up to date with the latest rally results and preview upcoming events.

In this interview our featured guest is two-time Rally America PGT National Champion Matt Johnson .  We caught up with Matt while he and his co-driver Jeremy “Worm” Wimpey were driving through the Appalachians on their way to Sno*Drift 2009.