Fan-favorite Matthew Nykanen is lining up a shot at this yr’s coveted Open 2WD title within the ARA Nationwide Championship offered by Kubota.
The BMW driver delivered a Nationwide stage debut win eventually month’s Sno*Drift Rally and now has reigning champion Ryan Sales space and fellow class large hitters Seamus Burke and Michael Hooper in his sights.
“We’re going to attempt to take down the large canine,” the 25-year-old instructed DirtFish. “We’re going to run the entire Nationwide sequence and see what we are able to do. We simply received the open two-wheel-drive Regional Championship, so the logical development is to go to the Nationwide.
“I want we’d had Hooper, Burke and Sales space come and run their rear-wheel-drive automobiles on this occasion – that may’ve given us some harder competitors in school. However, you understand, I get grasping and I have a look at the general outcomes and with the ability to put down top-10 stage instances in a rear-wheel-drive automobile in circumstances like this, that’s what will get me going.”
Nykanen will deal with all ARA rounds aside from Oregon Path, the place he’ll be supporting his spouse Anikka, who’s competing in her first occasion as a driver.
He defined: “She often co-drives for her brother [Travis Mattonen], however she’s driving his Subaru Impreza on the Headwaters Rally, so I’ve received to be there to help her.”
