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Birmingham, Michigan Latest News: July 27th, 2010 Hanson gets BRAIDS for X-Games No, it's not a new rally hair style but TeamIlluminataMotorsport (TIM) is excited to be represented at the 2010 X-Games by non other than Travis Hanson in his Subaru WRX.
"Travis is a Michigan native and a terrific competitor. We are glad to be able to help him participate in the X-Games his year" said TIM owner Paul Eddleston. Travis and will be using BRAID's Winrace Acropolis gravel rally wheels to conquer the dirt and jumps of the upcoming event held every year in down town Los Angeles. BRAID wheels are imported to the USA by Team Illuminata and have gained great acceptance in the rally arena since their introduction just two years ago. They build wheels for all forms of motorsport including rally, track, three piece, forged, Fuchs replicas and classic. See www.BRAIDusa.com for more information.
Hanson has competed all year long with no sponsor and has become known as, “That white Subaru,” by the fans. On news of his upcoming X Games competition his grassroots movement has gained speed and many fans have been donating money and purchasing M22, a Michigan lifestyle company, provided t-shirts at Hanson’s web-site (http://hansonrally.weebly.com/donations--sales.html). Hanson will be competing against some of the great names in rally and racing including, Travis Pastrana, Ken Block, and Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Brack, who won gold at the X Games last year. Hanson’s efforts have captured the imagination of his fans across the country and this has become an American dream in the making. Hanson got his start in rally racing in 2005 after spectating for the first time at the Sno*Drift rally near his home in Michigan. He has gone through leaps and bounds in the sport, competing at the X Games once before and becoming a rally instructor. His current trip to the X Games has given his fans inspiration that if someone puts some heart and hard work into their dreams that they can come true. That’s why they are escorting their hero all the way to the historic LA Coliseum in Los Angeles, California where the battle for gold and glory will take place. Follow T. Hanson Motorsports on Facebook @T. Hanson Motorsports; Twitter @thanson523; or blog http://t-hanson-motorsports.blogspot.com/, and web-site http://hansonrally.weebly.com/. Look for the car kicking butt on ESPN Saturday, July 31 2 - 6 p.m. and 7 - 11 p.m. June 28th, 2010 Hyper-Good Time @Hyperfest
This was a great and relaxed weekend and so much fun to spend with the rally people who are normally too busy to really get to know. A great PR exercise and fantastic test and tune opportunity. Thanks to Anders for making it happen and everyone who brought their cars out to play. Click here for more pictures.
June17th, 2010 TIM to unveil new RV at Hyperfest No, it's not what you think. it's our new "RALLY VAN". A Dodge Sprinter with BRAID rally wheels. Come and see it at HyperFest this weekend at Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia. We will be taking down our WRX rally car and Talon rally car which will be competing in the rally section Sunday. We will also be giving rides in the cars on stage on Saturday so that's a "must not miss" opportunity to get inside a rally car at speed.
Visit our stand for free give aways and to see the collection of BRAID rally and street wheels on display.
April 12th, 2010 Close But No Cigar In the fourth round of Detroit's RallyCross program held this past weekend Team Illuminata drive Paul Eddleston was just pipped to the post by Mitsubishi EVO driver Kevin Wilbourn finishing just 5 seconds down after 12 runs through the twisty, sandy course. Mitsubishi Talon driver Scott Harvey finished in an unaccustomed third place after picking the slow lane in the slalom in the afternoon and being unable to break the habit until his fifth run. This was an unusually low penalty event for Eddleston as he only managed to nail three cones all day for a total penalty of six seconds. It didn't go unnoticed that this was just slightly more than his losing margin emphasizing yet again the importance of keep it clean in these events. "I tried to to take it easy this event and just keep it clean and I did for the most part until the final run where I just lost it coming into the finish" said Eddleston after the event. Apart from one outstanding clean lap his times were consistently slower than most of the M4 competitors but they were all collecting cone penalties on the majority of their runs which eventually put paid to their chances. Once again the Detroit Region put on an excellent fun event event with plenty of seat time for the drivers. Next event is Eastern States Rallycross Championship on May 22nd. Mar 28th, 2010 MIROC Sponsors Announced Michigan Race of Champions is a new form of motorsport which is a combination of US style Autocross WRC Super Special, Race of Champions and X-Games Rally. Conducted on a 100% paved course, cars start of at half a lap apart and pursue each other over the course of a lap or two of the tight and twisty track. First car back to its start position wins. Often an event will consist of timed heats with the fastest 8 drivers going head to head in a knockout competition to determine the overall winner. Points are awarded throughout the season to determine the season champion. More info: www.teamilluminata.com/miroc.htm The first event is fast approaching (May 9th) so we would like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors without whom non of this would be possible.
Feb 24th, 2010 TIM Announces Unique New Race Series
unique head to head knock-out format two
cars on track at a time, not door to door production based vehicles limited safety equipment requirements
Visit the website for more information
Feb 10th, 2010
TIM
Driver Martinov
The crews next even is planned to be Rally Tennessee on May 24th. Videos below:
Feb 3rd, 2010
TIM
/ Alba Rallysport
Jan 25th, 2010
TIM
/ Alba Rallysport Birmingham, MI based Team Illuminata Motorsport (TIM) is continuing their partnership with Alba Rallysport for 2010, the third consecutive season. The weekend of January 29th-30th will see the team tackle Sno*Drift, the first round of the Rally America Championship. The husband and wife crew will be piloting car #525 a 2004 Subaru WRX equipped with BRAID Competition Wheels in the highly competitive Super Production (SP) class. “We’re really excited to take part in our home event and see how we stack up against the top SP drivers in the country.” said David Allan, team driver who remains cautious, “This is our first true winter rally so we’ll be taking it gently. I co-drove 000 car at the 2008 event so have some insight as to just how tricky the stages can be.” The team has enjoyed a fantastic 2009 season with class wins in America and Canada however are very much focused on finishing the event and building experience. “This is a new rally for us but we are confident that we have a strong car, an experienced service crew and the best safety and performance parts supplied by Team Illuminata Motorsport (TIM).” said co-driver Tammy. Although entered in SP class the team’s WRX is still in PGT spec. “I’m not concerned about having a smaller 32mm turbo restrictor.”
commented David, “Suspension setup and tire selection are going to play a more critical role on the snow and ice covered Michigan stages. With variable weather predicted, we’re mounting all the tires we have onto BRAID Competition Wheels.” As always, Paul Eddleston, owner of Team Illuminata Motorsport will be overseeing the crew’s progress from the service area and on stage, “I can’t wait to get up to Atlanta, MI and see how our BRAID wheels perform in the snow. It’s going to be a fantastic event. It’s always well run with a great group of organizers; we are so pleased to be associated with it and supporting a rally team from our home state of Michigan.” About Team Illuminata Motorsport (TIM) Team Illuminata Motorsport (TIM) was established in 2005 to provide competition parts for rally, rallycross and other forms of motorsport. They import BRAID wheels from Europe and are also a dealer for Team Dynamics wheels, Primitive skid plates and Rally Armor mud flaps. There web site is at http://www.TeamIlluminata.com Photo by Jud Bartlett of Squarespot Studios
November 26th, 2009
TIM
Rally Wagon IWell, we've finally bit the bullet and comitted to swapping a new engine into the Legacy rally wagon. We've been close before, thinking we needed more power only to be proved wrong by lending the car to a better driver who typically spanked the field with the current N/A powered car. This saved a lot of money as driving schools are cheaper than engines but now the 2.5l lump is getting tired and blowing quite a bit of smoke out of the tail pipe and this lovely 3.3l H6 presented itself for a very reasonable price. 3.3 liter H6 with ~60K miles out of a 94 SVX OBD1.
Follow the build on Dirty Impreza or MISubie
July 13th, 2009
TIM
gets down and dirty
Surprisingly, the M4 win was blown away by the times set by Nathan Usher in is Prepared all wheel drive WRX wagon who now threatens to move up to M4 later in the season. God help us when he does. June 24th, 2009 SuperRally-X
The timed heats went off without much trouble, proving the timing system we had come up with and producing eight qualifiers for the final knockout rounds. Eddleston, running on R compound autocross tires, essentially very soft slicks, managed to make the finals much to the surprise of the other, non-R compound shop competitors. "In Europe, where they do this sort of thing a lot" explained Eddleston "they set up the car for the predominant tarmac and take it easy on the dirt. I was actually surprised how much grip I had on the dirt section. The car was surprisingly driveable and I probably could have gone faster if I'd had more confidence in them." Eddleston survived the first round but was knocked out in the semi final by Jon Armstrong in his Honda Civic who went on to finish second to Justin Kollien in his STi. Full results can be found at the event web site along with photos and videos. A great start to the series the next event is on August 9th. February 28th, 2009 Two in a Row for TIM Now, no longer able to refer to himself as a "tarmac specialist" TIM driver and owner Paul Eddleston slithered his way to his second snowy victory this year in Detroit SCCA's RallyCross at Capac, Michigan. Held at the same venue and in similar conditions where he made the said declaration after a dismal performance, things turned out for the better this time. The course started out covered in snow with two tight 180 degree turns at each end of the field connected by sinewy, back and forth slaloms between them. The track soon revealed itself to have hidden ice patches under the snow and that the two 180s were the key to fast times, by taking them slow. By the afternoon, in the rising temperatures the course had developed a top layer of slimy mud on frozen dirt making it even trickier than the morning. One spin put Eddleston out of the overall top spot but he still retained the lead in M4 and 3rd overall behind Doug Harvey and Steve Baumbach.
A great shout out to the Cassidy's for once again letting us abuse their lawn and to the organization for another great event. Some great video of the wagon in action courtesy of Chris Lanctot (red Tacoma Pickup) more footage here
February 8th, 2009 TIM wins at Sno*Drift! Not
what you think but the team did score a victory at the Rally America
event in
the Sno-X held at the special
stage venue.
It was kind of appropriate that we won the sno-x but only coincidental that we sponsored the Super Special stage in conjunction with our new wheel supplier BRAID. The stage was a great hit with spectators who lined the rim of the bowl-like gravel pit to see the stage cars fly through the snow between the piles of frozen gravel. .
Can't wait for next year's event . January 24th, 2009 TIM off to Sno*Drift No TIMAlba rally car in action this event as the crew is off having a baby (lame excuse) so the rallycross wagon, in it's new BRAID livery will have to carry the torch for us. So please stop by and say "Hi". in fact, there's a free TIM beanie for the first person to drop in and say "WOW, these BRAID wheels are really cool. Now where's my free hat". Archives |
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In
surprisingly the first outing on dirt this year for TIM
driver Paul Eddleston he came out on top this past weekend in the
Modified all wheel drive class despite the presence of ace RallyCross
exponent Scott Harvey. The event, the fifth of the Detroit Region's
RallyCross championship, was held at the Crystal Motor Speedway on
a grass surface that quickly turned to dirt. The trick seemed to be
to stick to a tight line and use as much of the remaining grassy areas
as possible as that's where the grip was. As usual, missing cones
was key and unusually for him Eddleston only hit one all day.
