Imagine you pull up to the finish line of a rally stage but there’s no stage-end timing board. And your navigator doesn’t have the time either.
How quick was I? Where did I place?
Anyone who sat on the Top Gear sofa knows that feeling. That urge to lean forward and find out – was I fastest?
Imagine that but, rather than a cheap saloon car on an airfield, it was a rally car out on an undulating gravel course, littered with jumps, blind crests, donuts and more – and it’s your own car on the line.
That, in a nutshell, is Hoonigan’s new series, Rally Speedrun Championship.
Crews take on an 11-turn, 1.3 mile special stage that’s been built from scratch to test drivers and machines by Wyatt Knox.
“Hoonigan came to me, true to form, with a wild idea: build a rally course from scratch that would push world-class drivers and machines to their limits,” said Knox. “That’s exactly what we did. With the Hoonigan crew’s creative energy, we carved a flowing, high-risk course through the rolling hills—jumps, deep sand, sharp elevation, and even a donut as a tribute to the Gymkhana films.
Traditional rally machinery is complimented in the Speedrun series with track racers gone off-road, trucks, CrossKarts and more
“It’s built to reward the smart, punish the reckless, and expose every weakness. In rally, they say ‘to finish first, first you must finish’—this track lives and breathes that ethos.”
There’s a wide variety of machinery taking on the Speedrun championship and vying for fastest time on the board.
ARA National Championship presented by Kubota competitors Pat Gruszka and Alastair Scully will line up in the former’s Mistubishi Mirage Proto and Hyundai i20 N R5 respectively, while Pikes Peak champion Jeff Zwart will aim for top spot in Porsche GT3 Cup car and Formula Drift regular Faruk Kugay pilots a 1980 Toyota Corolla.
Blake Wilkey will compete in his Baja Bug Trophy Truck, plus there’s promise of a WRC replica and CrossKarts joining the fray in a second season of competition.
The new series will be shown on Hoonigan’s YouTube channel – episode one is available to watch below.
