Start Order & Late News - SCCA ProRally -
Maine Forest Rally
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For immediate release 26 July 2001
Start Order & Late Breaking News:
SCCA ProRally Championship - Maine Forest
A new USA record of 120 cars are entered in the Maine Forest SCCA ProRally,
round #6 in the Championship. All three Championship manufacturers (Hyundai,
Subaru and Mitsubishi) are represented, featuring the hugely successful
Hyundai Tiburons and Elantras, over a dozen Mitsubishi Lancers, and the debut
of several new Subaru Imprezas, in FIA Group N and several SCCA specification
categories. The two-day event will be held on privately owned lumber company
roads in the area west of Rumford. The Rally starts Friday afternoon, 27
July at 3:00 PM EST in downtown Rumford.
Selected late entries, news (driver/co-driver):
· Noel Lawler, the 1999 series overall champion reunites this weekend with
long-time co-driver, (and 1999 series co-driver champion) Charles Bradley,
who took some mid-season time off to concentrate on his new business venture
in Atlanta, GA. With that successfully underway, Bradley will be back in the
Hyundai co-drivers seat for the balance of the season.
· Maine Forest marks the first time this season that the Canadian Subaru
works team will cross the border, and contest for the overall win against
their American counterparts. Featuring a two-car squad similar to the
Prodrive prepped US team, the Canadians will be entered in the Open class
(McGeer/Williams) and the Production GT class (Richard/McCurdy) Last year,
this duo experienced ultimate thrills and despair, as Richard was sidelined
at the start with transmission woes, and McGeer drove to a 2nd place finish,
only to lose it over a vehicle servicing infraction.
· Also experiencing a reunion are Garen Shrader and Michael Fennell, who
drove together for the first time at this event last year, but have had a
challenging 2001 season. Shrader, out since the March Cherokee Trail event,
will be in his SCCA Open Class Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV.
· Seamus Burke and Frank Cunningham have a very favorable 2nd car on the
road starting position, and are clearly in contention for a top overall
finish. The only team to stand on the podium at every event of the season,
the duo have steadily been building on their speed all year, and the
reliability of their TAD Motorsports prepared Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI has
been top notch. With the favorable starting position, and Mark Lovell's
completely unproven new Subaru WRX making its debut, this could be Burke's
biggest weekend of the year.
· The start order, due to the huge size of the field, has been condensed
down to the top 50 teams for this release. The complete listing, with up to
the minute updates, is available at the Maine Forest website address shown
below.
Contact: Kurt Spitzner - SCCA Pro Rally Championship Director
direct inquiry Email: kspitzner@scca.org
Time zone at-event: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 5 hours)
Press room phone: 207.364.4511 extension 169 27-28 July only
Web sites:
· SCCA ProRally: http://www.sccaprorally.org/
· SCCA Maine Forest ProRally: http://www.maineforestrally.com
Information regarding the start order list:
Car # = number on vehicle. Car # under 200 are ProRally entries. Car # over
200 are generally ClubRally (regional) entrants. Class = Open, FIA Group N -
fastest; are cars with considerable modifications; P (Production) - slowest;
are cars very near to showroom stock configuration. G5 - two wheel drive
high HP cars; G2 - two wheel drive normally aspirated cars; PGT - high
horsepower all-wheel-drive production (stock) cars.
The SCCA name and logo is a registered trademark of the Sports Car Club of
America, Inc. ProRally, ClubRally and RallyCross are service marks of the
SCCA.
Maine Forest SCCA ProRally Championship Round #6
26 July, 2001
Top 50 Start Order -subject to revision
(balance of entry list available to view at www.maineforestrally.com)
start Car# Seed Class Driver Co-driver year Car
1 87 F Open Frank Sprongl Dan Sprongl 93 Audi Quattro S2
2 115 0 Open Seamus Burke Frank Cunningham 00 Mitsubishi Evo 6
3 17 F Open Tom McGeer Mark Williams 02 Subaru WRX
4 1 F Open Paul Choiniere Jeff Becker 00 Hyundai Tiburon
5 14 0 Open Mark Lovell Steve Turvey 02 Subaru WRX
6 3 0 Open Noel Lawler Charles Bradley 01 Hyundai Tiburon
7 4 0 Open Garen Schrader Michael Fennell 98 Mitsubishi Evo lV
8 2 0 N Karl Scheible Brian Maxwell 02 Subaru WRX
9 962 1 Open Keith Townsend Ian McEwen 97 Mitsubishi Evo lV
10 5 1 Open Doug Shepherd Pete Gladsz 94 Mitsubishi Eclipse
11 33 1 Open Rhys Millen Josh Jacquot 00 Mitsubishi Evo 6.5
12 116 1 Open Tom Lawless Brian Sharky 97 Mitsubishi Evo lV
13 80 1 Open Jon Kemp Rod Hendricksen 84 Audi Quattro
14 50 1 Open Steve Gingras Bill Westrick 00 Subaru Impreza 2.5
15 107 1 Open Tim Paterson Scott Ferguson 97 Mitsubishi Evo lV
16 44 1 N Henry Krolikowski Cindy Krolikowski 00 Subaru WRX STI
17 74 1 N Ramana Lagemann Russ Hughes 99 Subaru WRX STI
18 8 1 PGT Patrick Richard Ian McCurdy 02 Subaru WRX
19 39 1 G5 Carl Jardevall Amity Trowbridge 83 Volvo 740 Turbo
20 71 1 G5 Brian Hourt Drew Ritchie 01 Acura Integra GSR
21 28 1 G2 Bill Malik Christian Edstrom 80 Volvo 240
22 48 2 Open Lon Peterson Bill Gutzmann 00 Subaru Impreza 2.5
23 904 2 Open John Drislane Declan Hegarty 98 Mitsubishi Evo lV
24 850 2 N Jean Sebastein Besner Jacques Besner 99 Mitsubishi Evo V
25 123 2 N Vicente Frontinan Luis Teixeira 97 Mitsubishi Evo lV
26 90 2 PGT Lauchlin O'Sullivan John Dillon 94 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX
27 83 2 PGT Mark Utecht Brenda Lewis 92 Mitsubishi Eclipse
28 188 2 G5 Andrew Havas Melanie Kelley 79 Mazda Rx7
29 63 2 G5 Tad Ohtake Martin Dapot 98 Ford Escort ZX2
30 82 2 G5 Mike Hurst Rob Bohn 93 Ford Mustang
31 903 2 G2 Chris Havas Ben Bradley 94 VW Golf lll
32 986 3 Open Demetrios Andreou tba 90 Audi Coupe Quattro
33 891 3 Open Randy Zimmer Russell Strate Jr 96 Subaru Impreza
34 64 3 Open Sylvester Stepniewski Adam Pelc 87 Audi 4000 Quattro
35 72 3 Open Jonathan Ryther Janice Damitio 00 Subaru Impreza 2.5
36 58 3 Open Alec Ellsworth Steve Kaczkowski 97 Mitsubishi Evo lV
37 853 3 Open Pete Pollard Jennifer Cote 91 Toyota Celica GT4
38 957 4 Open Malachy Crawford Mark McAllister 00 Hyundai Elantra
39 928 3 Open Dean Fry Rick Davis 90 Subaru Legacy
40 565 3 N Russell Hodges Jimmy Brandt 95 Subaru Impreza WRX
41 38 3 N Lesley Suddard Floyd Shrader 90 Ford Sierra Cosworth
42 914 3 N Noel Nash Bernard Farrell 97 Mitsubishi Evo lV
43 76 3 PGT Gail Truess tba 88 Mazda 323 GTX
44 992 3 PGT Bruce Perry Philip Barnes 90 Eagle Talon TSI
45 27 3 PGT Greg Healey John Macleod 97 Subaru Impreza
46 971 3 PGT Brendan Cunningham Paul Mc Clean 90 Eagle TSI
47 55 3 G5 Brian Vinson Richard Beels 97 Toyota Supra
48 166 3 G5 John Daubenmier Stanley Rosen 88 Chevy S10
49 887 3 G5 Mark Bowers Duffy Bowers 87 Mitsubishi Starion
50 862 3 G2 Dan Brosnan tba 91 Nissan Sentra