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**prearpaccew** · 03-08-2008, 04:34 AM

Actually both Rally America and NASA Rally Sport do that. NRS splits the country into two sides. Rally America, in addition to the national championship where Travis Pastrana, Ken Block etc. compete, also has a Regional Rally Championship. RA divides the country into Northwest, Southwest, Central and Eastern. The SCCA as a comparison is divided into 8 regions. The 100 Acre Wood rally which is run very close to the actual center of the US has been the Regional Rally Championship event where the top 3 in each class from each region are invited.

I'm proud to say that slow old me finished 2nd in the Central Division in Group 5 this year. Mark Utecht in his Mustang finished 1st. That is also where we finished in the regional rally championship. But we both admit that is because we were the only Group 5 regional entries. No one else made the tow. Maybe the roar of our mighty V8 engines scared them off.

Ahaa, normal here is to start with rwd normally Group F then maybe Gr n then Gr N then if there is talent they normaly drive WRC in Finnish championship and at the same time PWRC or selected WRC events but normally they dont go to drive international events before they have the chance to do good result (top 3).
But I think most important work does the clubs, from where i am home we have 2 clubs, http://www.espoonurheiluautoilijat.fi/ this one is more focused on track racing but has rally in the program too, their best known driver is Kimi Räikkönen.
The other club is Tapiolan Urheiluautoilijat, http://www.tapua.fi/ this one focus more on rally, best known driver from this club is Marcus Grönholm.
The clubs arrange often internal events and sometimes bigger events too, also by joining the clubs it's easy to get the first touch to the sport by co-driving for instance before get an own car.

03-08-2008, 04:34 AM	#26
prearpaccew Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 466 Senior Member	Actually both Rally America and NASA Rally Sport do that. NRS splits the country into two sides. Rally America, in addition to the national championship where Travis Pastrana, Ken Block etc. compete, also has a Regional Rally Championship. RA divides the country into Northwest, Southwest, Central and Eastern. The SCCA as a comparison is divided into 8 regions. The 100 Acre Wood rally which is run very close to the actual center of the US has been the Regional Rally Championship event where the top 3 in each class from each region are invited. I'm proud to say that slow old me finished 2nd in the Central Division in Group 5 this year. Mark Utecht in his Mustang finished 1st. That is also where we finished in the regional rally championship. But we both admit that is because we were the only Group 5 regional entries. No one else made the tow. Maybe the roar of our mighty V8 engines scared them off. Ahaa, normal here is to start with rwd normally Group F then maybe Gr n then Gr N then if there is talent they normaly drive WRC in Finnish championship and at the same time PWRC or selected WRC events but normally they dont go to drive international events before they have the chance to do good result (top 3). But I think most important work does the clubs, from where i am home we have 2 clubs, http://www.espoonurheiluautoilijat.fi/ this one is more focused on track racing but has rally in the program too, their best known driver is Kimi Räikkönen. The other club is Tapiolan Urheiluautoilijat, http://www.tapua.fi/ this one focus more on rally, best known driver from this club is Marcus Grönholm. The clubs arrange often internal events and sometimes bigger events too, also by joining the clubs it's easy to get the first touch to the sport by co-driving for instance before get an own car.
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