Joeekrub

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Scott,

My name is Joseph Burke and I am the driver of the "Road Side Rubble" that you are referring to. I am not a fan of internet bickering, so I will leave this short and sweet. I qualified 4th fastest on Saturday, only a few tenths of a second behind FOUST, GRONHOLM, and HIGGINS. If I didn't meet the eventual XGAMES Gold medalist in the second round, I probably could have been a decent threat to the top 3. But instead we finished 5th overall. Right behind Tannner. Not too shabby.

I am not sure where you saw the privateer subaru's looking more competitive than us?? because on both days we were the highest place privateer team.

Saturdays event, we finished one spot out of the A-Main. Even after repairs, the steering wheel was 30Degrees off due to my contact with the wall. Whether It was my own fault I hit the wall, or if I got a little "help", without that, we could have been a big problem for Rhys in the Hyundai in the LCQ.

The team and myself did our best with the budget we had. These results are actually pretty impressive for a small team and a stage rally car that was mildly converted to a RallyCross car that is competing against the best in the business
-Current European RallyCross Championship Leader Tanner
-2x WRC Champ Marcus
-SRTUSA's David Higgins
-Last years runner up in the ERC
-3rd place finisher in the ERC

On a side note, I cannot control what is said about our car during the broadcast. Our car is most definitely not 365hp. As you could see by Sundays event, Adam and the team did a great job making the car have enough HP to take the holeshot against Pastrana, and at least keep in touch with the other cars in the straights. Keeping in mind that these other cars are the same cars that have won, and are STILL winning numerous European championships, which could also be considered the World Championship of the RallyCross world.


Sorry for those lover's who wanted their Evo represented higher, believe me, I did too. Hopefully we will have the budget to do you guys proud next year. But for right now, please do not completely write off our efforts. Being 20 years old and competing against these guys on our budget is way more difficult than it seemed. This Evo did NOT get embarrassed like the title states, it was actually pretty competitive.

Robevo RS

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Joseph no one denies your talent , neither your achievement in this event. Fact i think we ALL very proud of you to doing this.
Fact i am even more proud i personally meet with you and you took my wife for a ride and you offer me one. Which i denied since i am a chicken when comes down to that.

I believe at least from my side we are talking about the lack of support from Mitsubishi , for guys like you etc.

I hope we didn't come out different way here .
I do hope we have a chance again to meet with you again aty the practice , but this time i will bring mine hope fully too If everything works out .
Cheers Rob

Joeekrub

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Rob,

I agree with the Mitsubishi support side. My post was to prove to everyone that the Evo did NOT get embarrassed like the title states, and has not quite become considered the Prius of the industry quite yet(previous post). Having a privately entered evo that is only a few tenths off the worlds best is quite a feat for a 4 door sedan. Keep the faith.

Thats all from me, I just wanted to insert some times/facts into the discussion

Hiboost

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I do have to say besides the contact with the wall, that "road side rubble" Mitsubishi was moving pretty fast considering the factory backed cars it was up against! I was at the gym and they had it playing on the flat screens towards the end of my workout and I rushed home to catch the action. I just wish Mitsubishi was more involved with promtoting their brand. Even if it was more rewards based where if you hit the podium there would be sigificant payouts, it would be a better scenario.

Robevo RS

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In my country very common the EVo wins over even WRC cars or S2000.
Heck the champ last year was a EVo IX too /privateer. There is many rallys where EVos winning overall.

EVo is the best rally platform for privateers hands down. But no one listen to me , they even say rally is dead in here.. LOL
Even VENDORS in this forum say that....

You are one big proof to make them wrong. I am working on it too, but my budget is waaaay below the requirements. I dont care really, i do what i can.

migs647

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The problem is Mitsubishi Motors doesn't have the money for it. I'm surprised they are still in business, glad but surprised.

Believe me, growing up racing mx, there was NEVER enough contingency from the factories. Some of them have almost cut it completely (Suzuki). It would be nice for Mitsubishi to step up just for a few select races in the world a year and offer SOME sort of support. It doesn't have to be much, just something. Unfortunately, their heads are in a completely different direction than this type of advertising at this point

migs647

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Rob, when we say Rally is dead in the US, we mean it is not a popular motorsport here. That is all that is meant.

Robevo RS

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by the way we try to promote rally as much as we can, so here is one write up in my website about rally and grupe B

http://harracingusa.com/?page_id=186

and for a small sentence it is works, all my friend who read it thinks differently today about racing

GoTopless

I'm jealous of you guys who do Rally. I don't have the budget for it, but even if I did, the only one that's anywhere close is the 100 Acre Woods rally in Missouri. Oh well, our Evo's have been known to kick butt on pavement too

About Mitsubishi support...I saw this car at last year's SCCA AutoX Nats.
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...evo-ix-rs.html

I know it's a very far cry from factory backing, but hey it's still sponsorship money. If rally in the US has the same or more spectators (I'm sure it doesn't have fewer spectators than autox...lol) then maybe you rally guys could work out a deal with your local Mitsu dealer too.

Robevo RS

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they are not willing to help beyond discounts. Which is a good deal but far from being sponsored. I do get killer deals from Healy Mitsibishi, but that is all.
They do fix and work on my car free, but that is sooo minimal what i need from the, is almost nothing.
The parts i got discounts as i said , good ones, but end of the day i still pay.
So the sponsorship starts when you actually get money to do a race, anything before that is a better deal. Now in this economy you can get better deals anyway specially if you buy a lot or you are a returning customer.

The sponsorship is money what you can invest in the racing . Which i dont get personally.

Rob

boomn29

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Wow, you get a lot more 'Sponsorship' than I do. Congrats.

Butt Dyno

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You want sponsorship, write a proposal. You'd be surprised

Robevo RS

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People don't even understand me even in this forum, and they even miss understand me even more. I know its my fault entierly, so with this back ground if I write something they might even think I want to sponsor them LOL

dsmbruno

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Dont worry Rob, u do inspire some of us, at least me...

Robevo RS

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Thank you ! That is part of the plan