Posted Monday, February 10, 2025 at 10:47pm
Walking across the car park towards his Subaru first thing on Saturday morning, Brandon Semenuk caught some ice. Ordinary people might well have headed south and bounced. The Canadian gathered it up and barely noticed.
That was the triple American champion’s only moment in a flawless season-opening Sno*Drift Rally. He and co-driver Keaton Williams bossed round one of the ARA National Championship presented by Kubota from the start of the first stage to the end of the last one.
Driving the sole factory Subaru WRX, Semenuk arrived in Atlanta, Michigan as favorite on an event he’s won for the past two years. He delivered on that billing. Comfortably ahead by the end of Friday, Semenuk continued to build the lead past the four-minute mark through Saturday’s increasingly snowy stages.
