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Cars & Coffee has officially been rescheduled to Sunday, November 20th, alongside our last round of this years Time Trials. This FREE family friendly event lasts from 10am-2pm. Grab a bite to eat from James Gang BBQ and watch our Time Trials participants chase their best lap times of the season! Bring a friend and check out some unique cars from several local car clubs and don't forget to stop by the vendor booths. More details can be found on our event page or by visiting us on social media!
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Ogier wins WRC Rally Spain as Toyota seals manufacturers’ title

Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool
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emailBy RACER Staff | October 23, 2022 1:13 PM ET

Sebastien Ogier stormed to his first victory of the FIA World Rally Championship’s all-new hybrid era, triumphing on Rally Spain while helping secure the manufacturers’ title for Toyota Gazoo Racing.

The eight-time champ, who’s been contesting a part-time WRC campaign for Toyota this season while he pursues his WEC sports car racing aspirations, took control of the season’s penultimate round when he posted a trio of fastest times on Saturday’s second leg of the all-asphalt event in the Costa Daurada hills west of Barcelona.

Ogier carried a 20.7s lead into Sunday’s final leg and could afford to negotiate the final four stages without taking excessive risks in his GR Yaris Rally1.

The 38-year-old Frenchman did exactly that, clinching the victory by 16.4s from Hyundai i20 N Rally1 driver Thierry Neuville to land his first triumph of the season and the first top-level WRC win for new-for-2022 co-driver Benjamin Veillas.

Watch Rally Spain highlights below:
Kalle Rovanpera, who became the youngest-ever WRC drivers’ champion earlier this month aged 22, made it a double podium for Toyota. The result secured the Japanese marque its second-successive manufacturers’ crown.

With one round to spare, the Jyvaskyla, Finland-based squad holds an unassailable 93-point lead over Hyundai Motorsport and can no longer be caught.

“It’s Benji’s first win so I am very happy for him,” said Ogier. “It’s fantastic to get this win because it was an important weekend for the team.

“It’s not always easy to achieve such results and this season has been very dominant, so congratulations to Toyota Gazoo Racing.”

Toyota Gazoo Racing team principal Jari-Matti Latvala added: “It’s great to secure the title here. The last rally in Japan is the home round for Toyota, so now we can be much more relaxed going there. If we can win there, we can have even bigger celebrations!”
Sebastien Ogier dominated throughout in Spain. Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool

Neuville grabbed the runner-up spot from Rovanpera late on Saturday afternoon and was poised for a tight final-day scrap with the young Finn. That battle never materialized, however, as Rovanpera punctured a left-front tire when he drove over a drainage hole in Sunday’s second stage. At the final control, 18.1s split the pair.

Hyundai entries locked out the remainder of the top five positions, with Ott Tanak finishing 44.0s back from the lead in fourth overall. The Estonian driver never quite found the sweet spot in terms of his car’s setup and trailed Rovanpera’s Yaris by 9.5s at the finish.

A disappointed Dani Sordo was 32.5s further back in his i20 N Rally1 after a mixed weekend on his home roads. He’s lacked pace until setup tweaks at Saturday’s midpoint service unlocked a sudden turn of speed. Unfortunately, those tweaks came too late for a tilt at the podium, and despite winning a couple of the smooth asphalt stages, the local hero was left to rue what could have been.
Stronger form came too late for local hero Dani Sordo. .Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool

Also feeling dejected was sixth-placed Elfyn Evans. The Welshman felt he was lacking performance throughout the rally, and a puncture in his Toyota at the same place on the Riudecanyes stage as teammate Rovanpera compounded his woes.

Toyota development driver Takamoto Katsuta and M-Sport Ford’s Adrien Fourmaux were seventh and eighth. Both drivers gained a position at the expense of Fourmaux’s M-Sport teammate Craig Breen, who also had tire dramas after hitting a hole during Sunday morning’s opening loop.

Breen eventually finished ninth overall as his co-driver, fellow Irishman Paul Nagle, bowed into retirement from the sport’s top level on his 102nd WRC start. Pierre-Louis Loubet, also driving a Puma, completed the leaderboard.
Sunday issues hampered the retirement sendoff of Craig Breen’s co-driver, Paul Nagle. M-Sport photo

In WRC2, the second tier of international rallying, Teemu Suninen ended his 2022 WRC2 victory drought with an assured drive to take the class win.

It was a case of third time lucky for the Finnish star, who’d come close to glory in Portugal and Finland, but was denied on both occasions with victory seemingly in his grasp. There was no stopping Suninen this time around, however, as he led almost from start to finish, in his Hyundai i20 N Rally2.

The Finn started Sunday’s four-stage finale 26.6s clear of second-placed Yohan Rossel. He was in no mood to compromise, either, and further extended that advantage to head home the French Citroen C3 driver by 32.5s.
No near miss this time for Teemu Suninen, who dominated all the way in WRC2. Jaanus Ree / Red Bull Content Pool

In the battle for the WRC2 championship, Skoda Fabia Evo drivers Emil Lindholm and Kajetan Kajetanowicz finished fourth and sixth, respectively, ensuring that the fight will go down to the wire at next month’s Rally Japan. With dropped scores taken into account, both are effectively tied heading to the finale.

That finale sees Japan return to the WRC for the first time since 2010. Moving to an all-asphalt format for the first time, the Toyota City-based event takes place Nov. 10-13.

WRC Rally Spain, final positions after Day Three, SS19
1 Sebastien Ogier/Benjamin Veillas (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) 2h44m43.9s
2 Thierry Neuville/Martijn Wydaeghe (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) +16.4s
3 Kalle Rovanpera/Jonne Halttunen (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) +34.5s
4 Ott Tanak/Martin Jarveoja (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) +44.0s
5 Dani Sordo/Candido Carrera (Hyundai i20 N Rally1) +1m16.5s
6 Elfyn Evans/Scott Martin (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) +1m51.1s
7 Takamoto Katsuta/Aaron Johnston (Toyota GR Yaris Rally1) +2m19.1s
8 Adrien Fourmaux/Alexandre Coria (M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1) +2m38.4s
9 Craig Breen/Paul Nagle (M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1) +2m43.0s
10 Pierre-Louis Loubet/Vincent Landais (M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1) +3m25.1s

WRC Drivers’ Championship after 12 rounds
1 Rovanpera 255 points
2 Tanak 187
3 Neuville 166
4 Evans 124
5 Katsuta 106

WRC Manufacturers’ Championship after 12 rounds
1 Toyota Gazoo Racing 503 points
2 Hyundai Motorsport 410
3 M-Sport Ford 238
4 TGR Next Generation 122

 

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Luke McMillin, Rob MacCachren Capture 2022 BFGoodrich SCORE Baja 1000 Overall

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Luke McMillin and Rob MacCachren teamed to rise above the rest in a field of 276 starters to win the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck title in the season-ending BFGoodrich Tires 55th SCORE Baja 1000, presented by 4 Wheel Parts. The international event was the season-finale of the four-race 2022 SCORE World Desert Championship.

Starting second physically on the road in the elapsed time race and splitting the driving in McMillin’s Big Blue M racing machine all-wheel-drive 4 Wheel Parts/BFGoodrich Tires No. 83 Chevy 1500, the duo worked their way to the front of the pack and finished the 828.25-mile race around the Northern Part of Mexico’s Baja peninsula in a penalty-free time of 16:37:46 with an average speed of 49.81 mph.

One of several ”super teams” competing in this race primarily because of the length of the course, Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee MacCachren stabled his aging two-wheel-drive thoroughbred when invited to join the Big Blue M race team again for this historic race and be McMillin’s second driver in the McMillin’s No. 83 McMilling Racing AWD Chevy 1500 built by Mason Motorsports.

Using McMillin’s No. 83 SCORE Trophy Truck, McMillin entered the race as the SCORE Trophy Truck overall point leader for 2022 and second in the SCORE Overall points. A third-generation desert racer, McMillin and MacCachren started second behind another ”super team” of Bryce Menzies and Luke McMillin’s cousin Andy McMillin. Last year, the McMillin family allowed MacCachren to be driver of record while driving in Luke’s truck and the pair won that race as well and MacCachren earned the SCORE Trophy Truck season point-championship.

This year, MacCachren started and stayed the course, with Luke McMillin taking over the wheel at race mile 394, they then battled Luke’s older brother Dan McMillin and Josh Daniel, passing Josh when he had a flat tire, never looking back the rest of the way to the checkered flag. Dan McMillin and Daniel finished second to give the McMillin Racing family their first one-two overall finish in a SCORE race.

With his victory, Luke McMillin also earned a U.S. $25,000 contingency bonus from long-time SCORE sponsor and race title sponsor BFGoodrich Tires, offered to the winner of this year’s race. The victory also marked the 33rd overall victory in this race for vehicles equipped with BFGoodrich Tires.