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Team Rally Tire Wins Again At New England Forest Rally! Newry, ME – July 18, 2010 - The 2010 Rally-America National Championship came to a close this weekend with another decisive win for the #74 team of Ramana Lagemann and Christine Beavis.   Piloting their Rally-Tire.com sponsored Super Production class Subaru WRX STi, Lagemann and Beavis drove quickly and consistently, finishing an unprecedented 2^nd place overall, just 42 seconds behind newly crowned series champions Antoine L’Estage and Nathalie Richard.   Lagemann commented, “I am so proud of what we accomplished this season. All of the teams in Super Production are modestly funded, but we were able to run strong with truly minimal resources. In 4 events, we used just 6 sets of new tires! We didn’t have one puncture all year. In fact, we ran with used tires through the first eight stages of this event. That is truly incredible and speaks volumes about the quality of Lassa Rally Tires.”   Despite missing the opening two rounds of the series, the Dent Sport Garage supported team managed to take three class victories out of four events, including two overall podiums, placing the team 4^th overall in the Rally America Championships, and 2^nd in the Super Production class. “It’s more than we expected, but being familiar with Ramana’s skill and experience, I can’t say that I’m surprised.” says Beavis.   Lagemann, who returned to Rallying after nearly three years, showed the speed and skill that landed him a contract with Prodrive to represent Subaru Rally Team USA in 2002. Teamed with seasoned co-driver Beavis, the crew was immediately up to speed, dominating Super Production, and even winning stages outright against more powerful and sophisticated Open class machinery.   Despite not competing in Open class, Lagemann is looking forward to driving a high horsepower rally car when he enters Rally America’s Rallycross Series, set to kick off in late August. “Currently we’re evaluating our options,” explains Lagemann. “I think this will be really exciting for fans watching on event and at home on TV, so we are hopeful that the series will take off!” Round 1 of the Rally Cross series will take place at New Jersey Motorsports Park, August 27-29. Rally Tire is based in Temple Hills, Maryland. The company imports, distributes and on-line retails various racing products suitable for stage rally competition such as, Lassa Racing Tyres, Arcasting Racing Wheels, Sabelt Racing Products.Rally Tire is owned and operated by racers whose goal is to offer top quality racing products at reasonable prices. They hand pick and test all products to make sure only the best are made available for their customers.

Rally Tire can be found on the web at http://www.rally-tire.com

Note from Alex-

Dent Sport Garage  has handled all mechanical aspects of this team  including gearbox rebuild/refresh, differential rebuild, suspension rebuild, custom exhaust and on site service.  The Vipec Ecu was tuned in house on our Dyno Dynamics LB450 dyno by Matt Koestner.  The team did the whole season on one completely stock engine, directly from the dealership. Keep a look out for us at upcoming Rally-X events in New Jersey!

Bill is in Sweden now, staying for 10 days to help work on a record attempt for the fastest road legal car at the Nurburgring. The car is owned and operated by Alx Danielsson Motorsport. Bill is keeping a blog on Dent Sport’s Facebook wall as well.

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6/20

Danne picked me up from the airport and we headed down to Danielsson Motorsport where the Ultima is located. A well known local fabricator, Tokan, was already at work on the car. He worked on the front and I got to work on the rear uprights. They had just arrived from Riley in the US and once fitted, it was apparent that some parts would need to be modifed to achieve decent base camber. I will be mounting Mike Mishler’s Kognition wing tomorrow and will have to modify the chassis to get it where it should be.  While we were working on the Ultima, Danne was installing the SQS sequential shifter in his 9ff 996 Turbo.  Alx was in and out during the day. He was on his 1989 FZR Yamaha and was soon off to commentate for Eurosport Sweden during a formula car race from France.
I’m now hanging out in the Jumbo Stockholm 747 hostel in Arlanda.

Things have been busy. Nick has been working I think everyday of the week for at least two months. I’m so tired my post title is just a list and nothing really worth reading.  We’ve had a good run lately. I think that it’s  a bad time of year to confront challenges because our instinct is to simply finish things that are coming at us, like playing pong or something.

Scot and Bill went with Ramana Lagemann and Burak Tuglu of Team Rally-Tire (TRT) to STPR Rally and brought home a victory in Super Production as well as a place on the podium, placing third overall.  Ramana and codriver Chrissie managed to win two stages of the rally outright, the longest and the shortest.

photo STPR_Rally on Flickr.

Lagemann Beavis In Car STPR

The car is at the shop now if anyone wants to come see it. It’s getting better and better now that the team has been over it a few times. Matt tuned the Vipec and refined the anti-lag to Ramana’s liking, we recently fixed a few leaks and before Maine (New England Forest Rally)  we’ll be sending the Ohlins out for service and building a new exhaust for the car. The great finishes have created some interest for Lassa tires and the Arcasting wheels. We are sourcing some wheelsets for customers now and can get more if anyone’s interested.

This brings me to the next topic, our newest customer service liason Ben Rickard. Ben has worked in the industry for a while now and brings a lot of parts knowledge and professionalism to the table. He will likely be the one taking your order, scheduling your appointment and helping you get those parts on the way. He started this week and is most definitely a welcome addition to the team.

Recent Projects-

Summer means a bunch of broken stuff. We’ve been working on a clutch job that turned into a leak fix on a 5 speed subaru input shaft. When the transmission was apart we found a broken third gear! Terrible. Bill’s fixing that one. I’ve been working on some motors, one for Vlad’s track STI and another for BigHEAD Tony who had the misfourtune of running through a small lake during a thunderstorm. Nick did a clutch on an Evo IX today and a slew of other work, swaybar install, gauges, brake work, suspension installs.. he’s been the man lately. We installed a Tomei ExPreme manifold on an Evo IX yesterday to replace a junky Ebay one. The quality of the Tomei kit is really incredible. It comes with about $100 of OEM Mitsubishi Gaskets and high quality exhaust wrap for those interested in wrapping their manifolds. The stock heatshield also bolts to the Tomei Manifold.  Nick is also working on Ryan’s Civic track car, converting it from OBD-Zero to OBD-1 so Matt can then Tune it on the dyno.  Matt’s been tuning a lot of Subarus, soon a Turbo Miata with AEM once the injectors come, then a BMW running VEMS with a turbo the size of a big melon. The car might break 600whp. Matt also tuned another E30 M3 race car the other day in a collaborative effort with the car’s project manager, Mark from German Performance of Brighton.

Bill fabricated pipework today for a huge tube-fin intercooler setup, welded breathers for a Honda B series valve cover and worked on wiring the VEMS equipped BMW.

Racing News-
Nick is racing this coming weekend at Burke Mountain with the New England Hillclimb contingent. He’ll be bringing the Accord out of retirement for this event. Next race after that for DSG is going to be COM at NHMS 7/2-7/3 where I’ll try to get my lap time back from Bill who totally sniped me by 1/10th of a second. Then Okemo Hillclimb where we will try for FTD with the Pleasure Evo. After the party ends we get down to business in Maine at the New England Forest Rally in July to try to make wrenches turn with the same precision that Ramana makes the steering wheel turn.  Before all that happens Bill will be going to Sweden of all places. He was hired by Swedish race driver Alx Danielsson who was nearly an F1 driver to represent DSG in their effort to break the Nurburgring lap record with a twin turbo Ultima GTR. Bill will be traveling to Sweden to help prepare the car before it leaves to Germany. He’s leaving this Saturday!!

I’ll ammend this post with more photos tomorrow. For the very latest stuff check out our facebook page. We have a Business page and a Group page. The business page is way better.  Don’t stray from our site though. Facebook is sort of lame.