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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!

DSG was hired to travel to Salem MO to service for the two-car Rally-Tire team.

The two car team of Burak Tuglu/Carie Wilburn and George Georgakopoulos/Faruq Mays finished without incedent. The team made smart tire choices for the icy conditions and drove with the restraint required to finish without any accidents in the icy conditions.  The Ford Focus driven by Tuglu finished 1st in 2wd class by a margin of  6 minutes!

Other team sponsors include: BTM Sport and Eagle Vanlines.

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