SCCA ProRally - Day One results and News - Prescott
Forest
SCCA ProRally Championship - Round #9 - Prescott Forest
Leg One Results, Key Notes
Brutal High Desert Stages Shake-up the Field
Prescott, Arizona - For the second year in a row, perfect weather seemed to
indicate that this year's Prescott Forest SCCA ProRally would be an ideal
place for teams to make good on their late season strategies. But as
happened in years past, the Prescott trails made mincemeat out of more than
just a handful of top teams, and for the lucky few that made it back to
service, a very long night of repairs and parts scrounging awaited.
Key Notes:
¨ Front running championship players that found themselves out of the
running early read like a who's who list of American Rallying: Paul
Choiniere, Rhys Millen, Karl Scheible, Ramana Lagemann, and Jonathan Ryther
were all out of the rally by SS2, either victims of mechanical failure or
off-road excursions.
¨ Amongst the running, were a heavily battle damaged Seamus Burke, nearly
30 minutes off rally leader Mark Lovell. This is a tremendous blow to Burkes
last-ditch championship push, and may end his chances for the top podium
spot. Lovell needs only to finish in the top four positions to secure his
year-end Drivers' Championship - and with many of the top contenders already
out of the running, the Englishman could be in a coast-home mode tomorrow.
¨ Perhaps most significant in the 'still running' group is a resurgent Noel
Lawler and Charles Bradley, fresh off their first finish of the year at Wild
West. Currently running a comfortable 2nd place, their Hyundai is running
well, and with the roughest stages of the rally now behind them, are ready to
go head to head with the Subaru WRX of Mark Lovell.
¨ The tightest battle of leg one was back in Production Class, where the
three 'usual suspects' that have been following each other around the woods
all season are back at it again. In the lead - but by a mere 3 seconds - are
Californians Tony Chavez/Doug Robinson, in their VW Golf GTi. Right on their
bumper are Midwesterners Michael Halley/Ole Holter in the New Beetle. Craig
Peeper/Ian Bevan, who were leading the series until Wild West, are a not too
distant 6 minutes back - but as rough as Prescott is, that kind of margin
isn't as bad as it may seem.
¨ Patrick Richard and Ben Bradley were having a very good go in their
Subaru Impreza, winning the final stage of the night and finishing a solid
third place. However those good stage times extracted a high cost - melting
down two pistons. The team withdrew at service.
¨ Leg two of the Prescott Forest SCCA ProRally begins at 9:00 AM, following
a special spectator stage to be run at the Yavapai County Fairgrounds just
north of Prescott.
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Prescott Forest SCCA ProRally Championship Round #9
05-06 October, 2001
Top 25 Leg One Finish Order (unofficial)
times are in hours:minutes:seconds
start Finish Car# Time Seed Class Driver Co-driver year
Car
2 1 14 1:10:14 0 Open Mark Lovell Mike Kidd 02 Subaru Impreza WRX
4 2 3 1:11:55 0 Open Noel Lawler Charles Bradley 00 Hyundai
Tiburon
9 3 8 1:13:20 1 Open Patrick Richard Ben Bradley 98 Subaru
Impreza 2.5RS
10 4 50 1:13:37 1 Open Steve Gingras Bill Westrick 00 Subaru
Impreza
14 5 53 1:14:53 2 Open Kyoichi Takaori Ken Cassidy 94 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo III
18 6 188 1:15:08 2 Gr 5 Andrew Havas John Allen 79 Mazda RX-7
8 7 107 1:15:17 1 Open Tim Paterson Scott Ferguson 97
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV
13 8 235 1:16:15 1 Gr 2 David White James Brandt 87 VW Golf GTi
21 9 110 1:16:25 3 Open Mark Nelson Alex Gelsomino 00 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo VI
12 10 22 1:16:52 1 Gr N Ralph Kosmides Joe Noyes 99 Subaru
Impreza WRX-STi
17 11 90 1:17:10 2 GT Lauchlin O'Sullivan John Dillon 94 Mitsubishi
Eclipse GSX
28 12 331 1:17:19 4 Open David Turner Mike McComas 94 Jeep
Cherokee
20 13 7 1:17:40 2 Open George Plsek Ronan Burke 92 Audi S2
29 14 403 1:19:40 5 Open Wyeth Gublemann Therin Pace 02 Subaru
Impreza WRX
27 15 374 1:21:21 4 Open Leon Styles Larry Scott 91 Mitsubishi Galant
VR-4
25 16 95 1:21:26 2 P Tony Chavez Doug Robinson 86 VW Golf GTi
26 17 61 1:21:29 3 P Michael Halley Ole Holter 99 VW New Beetle
33 18 72 1:26:10 5 Gr 2 Jon Hamilton Ken Sabo 81 VW Rabbit
31 19 94 1:27:30 5 P Craig Peeper Ian Bevan 00 Ford Focus ZX3
19 20 63 1:28:19 2 Gr 5 Tad Ohtake Bob Martin 98 Ford Escort ZX2
34 21 367 1:34:59 6 Gr 2 Richard Byford Frances Olson 72 BMW 2002
1 22 115 1:34:15 0 Open Seamus Burke Frank Cunningham 00
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI
35 23 325 1:34:28 6 GT Bruce Brown Bob Moe 93 Subaru Impreza
32 24 370 1:44:04 5 Gr 5 William Yates Julie Yates 85 Toyota MR2
24 25 51 1:44:35 3 Gr 2 Jay Streets Al Kintigh 85 Toyota Corolla
*complete results will be posted on the Prescott Forest website:
http://www.prescottforestrally.com
Leg One Retirements - unofficial
Car # Drivers Name Co-Drivers Name Class Year Make stage
Retirement cause (unofficial)
28 Bill Malik Christian Edstrom G2 93 Volvo SS1 Transmission
33 Rhys Millen Josh Jacquot Open 00 Mitsubishi SS1 Driveshaft
49 Jonathan Ryther Janice Damitio Open 00 Subaru SS1 Fuel tank rupture
349* Tom Juliani Dan Oebker Open 83 Audi SS1 Undisclosed mechanical
1 Paul Choiniere Jeff Becker Open 00 Hyundai SS2 Off-road - stuck
2 Karl Scheible Brian Maxwell Open 02 Subaru SS2 Off-road - stuck
23 Michael Whitman Paula Gibeault Open 93 Ford SS2 Transmission
48 Lon Peterson Bill Gutzmann Open 00 Subaru SS2
74 Ramana Lagemann Russ Hughes Open 00 Subaru SS2 Accident
124* Peter Workum Clair Chizma Open 02 Subaru SS2 Off-road -
stuck
275 Nat T-Stow Jamie Thomas PGT 02 Subaru SS2 Accident
8 Patrick Richard Ben Bradley Open 98 Subaru Withdrawn Engine
failure (pistons)
* indicates teams that have the option of re-starting Leg 2 as ClubRally
entrants only.
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