{"id":192,"date":"2010-04-26T10:36:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:37:58","slug":"travis-pastrana-dominates-olympus-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/travis-pastrana-dominates-olympus-rally-192.html","title":{"rendered":"Travis Pastrana Dominates Olympus Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Pastrana wrapped up his 2nd Rally America victory of the year at the Olympus Rally in Washington State.  The Subaru Rally Team USA driver set the fastest time on 8 of the 13 stages to easily secure the victory over the Rockstar Energy Mitsubishi EVO X of Antoine L&#8217;Estage.  Pastrana said, \u201cThis rally was hard from the start. It was definitely the most intense field that we\u2019ve had, unfortunately a lot of guys went out on the first day. It was a really technical course, more so than we expected!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_193\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/travis-pastrana-subaru-world-rally-team.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/travis-pastrana-subaru-world-rally-team.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Pastrana&#039;s Subaru Rally Team STi\" title=\"travis-pastrana-subaru-world-rally-team\" width=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/travis-pastrana-subaru-world-rally-team.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/travis-pastrana-subaru-world-rally-team-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Pastrana wins the Rally America Olympus Rally in his Subaru Rally Team STi<\/p><\/div><!--more--><br \/>\nAntoine L&#8217;Estage remains the Rally America points leader with 2nd place finishes in all three events this year, finishing behind Pastrana at 2 events and Ken Block at the 100 Acre Woods.  L&#8217;Estage was keeping pace with Pastrana until his window fogged over after driving through a water crossing.  L&#8217;Estage finished the event 1 minute 42 seconds behind Pastrana and over 2 minutes ahead of the 3rd place finisher Dave Mirra.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_194\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antoine-lestage-rockstar-energy-drink.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antoine-lestage-rockstar-energy-drink.jpg\" alt=\"Antoine L&#039;Estage Rockstar Energy Mitsubishi EVO X\" title=\"antoine-l&#039;estage-rockstar-energy-drink\" width=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antoine-lestage-rockstar-energy-drink.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antoine-lestage-rockstar-energy-drink-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine L'Estage maintains his spot atop the Rally America driver points standings<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nMirra finished 3rd for his first-ever national podium finish in his Subaru Rally Team USA STi.  Mirra fought a battle with bacterial meningitis following the 100 Acre Woods Rally, so his finish felt extra special.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_195\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dave-mirra-subaru-world-rally-team.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dave-mirra-subaru-world-rally-team.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Mirra Subara World Rally Team STi\" title=\"dave-mirra-subaru-world-rally-team\" width=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dave-mirra-subaru-world-rally-team.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/dave-mirra-subaru-world-rally-team-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Mirra achieved his first-ever national podium finish in his Subaru World Rally Team STi<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nKen Block&#8217;s weekend ended early when he suffered gear box failure between stages 4 and 5.  The Monster Energy driver was able to achieve a stage best time on stage 2 in his Ford Fiesta.  This is the 2nd time this season Block has been forced to retire from a Rally America event.  The Monster Energy Ford team had just returned from Turkey, where Block had competed in WRC&#8217;s Rally Turkey event.<br \/>\n<object width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MLBTIMcoQ6A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MLBTIMcoQ6A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine L&#8217;Estage and co-driver Nathalie Richard on Taholah West 2 Special Stage<\/p>\n<p>The next Rally America event, The Oregon Trail Rally takes place May 14-16 in Hood River, OR.  For more info and complete coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/rally-america.com\/\">Rally America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travis Pastrana wrapped up his 2nd Rally America victory of the year at the Olympus Rally in Washington State. The Subaru Rally Team USA driver set the fastest time on 8 of the 13 stages to easily secure the victory over the Rockstar Energy Mitsubishi EVO X of Antoine L&#8217;Estage. Pastrana said, \u201cThis rally was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gotcone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}