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Ryan Rice lifts the hood prior to working on the engine of a rally car that belongs to a customer and friend who will be racing in the upcoming New England Forest Rally.
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Ryan Rice’s association with cars has come a long way since he was a little kid whose parents had to be pry him out of his beloved cozy coupe.
Ironically, it was his growing daughter that lured him out of a real race car a couple years ago. But Rice is never too far from an automobile with speed.
He won’t be driving in the upcoming New England Forest Rally, which runs through the Bethel and Rumford areas this weekend, but he will be invaluable for a handful of drivers who will enter the race, lending his expertise in cars and how to make them go faster. It’s the same thing Rice does every day at his Lisbon performance shop, Portland Performance, where Rice said he does “anything from oil changes to full rally, track or drag racing builds.”