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28 October 2006
Travis Pastrana Wins Rally
America National Championship
Subaru
Rally USA driver Travis Pastrana has won the 2006 Rally
America National Championship, the youngest driver ever to
do so. Pastrana, who turned 23 years old in October, took a
Gold medal in rally at the X Games earlier this year and now
takes his first driver's championship in just his second
year of rally competition.
Pastrana held a strong
lead in the championship hunt coming into the penultimate
round in the Lake Superior Performance Rally held Oct.
20-21, and needed only a 6th place or better to grab the
championship. However, when 2nd place in the championship
standings crashed out of the rally on the second stage,
Pastrana clinched the championship with a 50-point lead in
the standings - and there is still one more race to go, the
Wild West Rally in Olympia, Wash., Dec. 1-3. Pastrana, with
his co-driver Christian Edstrom, had been the front-runner
for much of the Lake Superior Performance Rally, but victory
in the race went to Subaru Rally Team USA driver Ken Block
and co-driver Alex Gelsomino.
"This is amazing, it's
been a great year for us, everything had just worked so
well, the car, the team and my co-driver Christian Edstrom
have all just clicked together perfectly," Pastrana said.
"We can't celebrate yet, as we are in the middle of a rally
fighting for another win, but the pressure is really off now
and we can have some fun."
A motorcycling racing star
turned rally car racer, Pastrana had been the dominant force
this year in the Rally America series, earning three rally
victories, four 2nd place finishes and a Gold medal at the
inaugural X Games Rally event where he narrowly beat out WRC
legend Colin McRae.
Subaru Rally Team USA
campaigns two Open Class 2006 Impreza WRX STI rally cars in
the Rally America National Championship. Pastrana and
co-driver Edstrom drive the #199 car; Block and co-driver
Gelsomino in the #43 car. Both team cars are prepared by
Subaru technical partner Vermont SportsCar and are based on
stock Subaru Impreza WRX STI vehicles.
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