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Click HERE to snag a copy of Mike Halley's CV/resume and then initiate contact! Event facilitation, driver instruction/training, autosport consulting, rally/race team management, rally/race driver management, or rally/race competition event support, you name it and I'll get it done!

Check out the latest collection of "Steward-Cam" pics from both the 2008 Rally America Olympus Rally in eastern Washington state and SNO*DRIFT Rally in northern Michigan, both of which found yours truly serving as Operations Steward

Rallye de Paris 2007 is in the books (as is the 2008 edition as it turns out) so click the pic below to learn more about the event and peruse the results, or to see some pics from the Millers participation in Rally America's Shooting Star Rally, click HERE ...

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Despite an amazing attitude and an unequaled zest for life, family and rallysport, Jake Himes (pictured below in a Charlie Cotterman supplied pic that features Jake's twin sons) succumbed to cancer in 2007. My thoughts and prayers, as well as those of the entire RealAutoSport family, are with Jake's family, friends and fans. Godspeed Jake - you truly will be missed.

Below find a Ronnie Arnold pic capturing Matt Johnson's reaction to my 'Jake Himes Do' in Portland in April 2007. Jake was in the midst of chemo and radiation therapy and I wanted to support him spiritually as best I could so I went for 'to the scalp' for the first time since Air Force basic training over 36 years ago.

Then, Click HERE to view pics snapped by the Operations Steward (yours truly) at the 2007 Rally America Doo Wop Regional Rallys in southwest Washington the same weekend that "ACP" claimed third overall (and TOP privateer) in Missouri! Rally America sanctioned three events scattered around the country that weekend and I got to attend two of them 2200 miles apart!

Click HERE to view pics snapped while assisting MusketeerRacing star Andrew Comrie-Picard test the SlowBoyRacing Mitsubishi EVO 9RS at the Sayerville Bison Ranch near Potossi, MO. prior to Rally America's Rally in the 100 Acre Wood National in February.

And finally, you can Click HERE to view pics snapped by the Event Steward (yours truly) at the 2007 Rally America SNO*DRIFT Rally.

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You never know what you'll find parked in front of RealAutoSport's "World Headquarters"

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With RealAutoSport, LLC watching over things “Cowboy” Kenny Bartram and Dennis Hotson's first rally season turned out about as perfect as possible!!! How about this for a trophy haul - 2006 Rally America Production Class Driver (aka Donison Cup) and Codriver National Champs; 2006 Rally America Two-Wheel-Drive Overall Driver (aka Woodner Cup) and Codriver National Champs; PLUS, Bartram snagged the prestigious 2006 Rally America Rookie of the Year title!

Click the pics below to review ALL the team's 2006 Rally America season action!

Action and behind the scene pics from this year's Rally in the 100 Acre Wood are to be found here ...

Logging eight finishes from eight starts in national-level events the Stillwater, Oklahoma-based duo - supported by RealAutoSport, LLC - logged what is no doubt the most unprecedented rookie season in US stage rally history!

FMX superstar “Cowboy” Kenny Bartram launching rally career in Missouri woods with RealAutoSport.

Stillwater and Sand Springs, OK – “Cowboy” Kenny Bartram (http://www.cowboykenny.com/), the most winning rider in freestyle motocross (FMX), is following his friend and fellow motocross star Travis Pastrana’s lead by venturing into the extreme autosport world of performance rally competition at the Rally-America Rally in the 100 Acre Wood (http://www.100aw.org/) in Salem, Missouri on 24 - 25 February. Bartram will be driving the championship-winning RealAutoSport, LLC Volkswagen New Beetle owned by fellow Oklahoman Mike Halley while looking forward to competing later in the season with a Vermont Sports Car prepared Subaru WRX.

Commenting on his plans for the rally Bartram said, "I just want to finish the rally and learn as much as possible about the sport.” Co-driving for Bartram will be his cousin and pit bike maven, Dennis Hotson, who recently recorded an 86.6 foot jump on one of the small bikes. During the event Halley and Crew Chief Trey Teegarden will tend to the world’s first New Beetle rally car which features KC HiLiTES High Intensity Discharge rally lamps and Silverstone Tyres.

The Rally-America Championship (http://www.rally-america.com/) is the nation’s premier performance rally series with uniquely varied venues coast-to-coast. Teams compete flat-out for hundreds of miles over closed-to-the-public forestry roads separated into a series of tests called special stages. A codriver keeps the driver apprised of turns, jumps, hazards and other obstacles using the route book and a hundredth-reading odometer. All the 2005 events were televised on the Outdoor Life Network (http://www.olntv.com/).

The RealAutoSport, LLC Rallye Team is supported by KC HiLiTES (http://www.kchilites.com/), Tulsa ’s Rally Distributing (http://www.rallydist.com/) and Mary Jane Halley, CPA. The RealAutoSport, LLC website, http://www.realautosport.com/, is sponsored by VirtualMovingTargetRacing.com and maintained by webmaster Sean Figgins.

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With Oregonian Tina Warner aboard the StudBug hustled through the Rally in the 100 Acre Wood on 25 & 26 February 2005. Despite the 'black eye' and running with a broken strut all Saturday it took a road penalty to keep the "ProStock" StudBug off the podium in the competitive "Funny Car" Group 5 ClubRally National Championship competition. Outgunned? What's new?

Our 2004 wasn't very active with just two trips to Camp Maxey (check out the Irish article by first-time codriver Conor Twomey - HERE) and one to Colorado's Cog ProRally near Steamboat Springs but 2005 got off to a great start when Oregonian and Alcan Winter Rally champ Kala Rounds climbed into the Production-legal StudBug-turned-Sno*Tortoise to help us capture two Group 5 runner-up finishes at Rally-America's inaugural stage rally weekend, the SNO*DRIFT Rally headquartered in Atlanta, Michigan. Click HERE to see more of our January weekend.

The 2003 SCCA ProRally season will long be remembered more for what the rally community lost than what any one team gained or won. The American rally community came together, came of age and pressed on with the pursuit of our automotive passions despite the tragedy at the Oregon Trail ProRally. The members of the RealAutoSport, LLC Rallye Team mourn the loss of Subaru Rally Team USA's Mark Lovell and Roger Freeman. We extend our deepest sympathies to Mark and Roger's families, friends and fans.

2003 certainly was a banner one for the RealAutoSport, LLC Rallye Team. I was nearly speechless when bestowed with the greatest honor of my racing life - the Jack Pim Memorial Award of Excellence - during NEOkla Region's annual awards banquet. Jack was such a special friend and racing brother that it's hard to put into words just how special this award is to me.