SCCA ProRally - Day One News & Notes - Maine Forest
26 July 2002
Day 1 Results - SCCA® ProRallysm Round 7 - Maine Forest
Series Leader David Higgins Challenged, Lovell Leads
RUMFORD, Maine With entrants and observers comparing several of today's
thrilling and blindingly fast stages to the Thousand Lakes WRC event in
Finland, Day One of the 2002 Maine Forest Rally ended on a high note for
manufacturers and many independent entrants.
Key Notes and Quotes:
¨ Streaking through the prodigious dust first was Subaru's Mark Lovell,
fresh from his victory at Pikes Peak, was visibility thrilled with his finish
- remarking that his Subaru 'has never run better' - despite what Prodrive
has called a "precautionary" 17-minute transmission swap at the mid-point
service.
¨ Has his luck run out? Championship leader David Higgins had a difficult
first night, suffering a puncture on SS2, returning to service with his right
front wheel worn down to just the hub, sparks flying, loosing two and a half
minutes in the process. A victim of Higgins' misfortune was Paul Choiniere,
losing some 40 seconds as he tried to slice through the thick dust left in
the wake of the wounded Subaru.
¨ Jonny Milner, experiencing his first US rally is very impressed with both
the roads, and the stage notes that describe them. The Briton executed a
significant 'leap' over a crest on SS4, which resulted in an even more
significant landing that flattened his exhaust, is otherwise very happy with
his 6th place drive in his Prodrive supplied WRX, curiously running with a
mere 32mm restrictor in this 40mm restrictor class.
¨ The ever growing and fiercely competitive Group N category has Tim O'Neil
leading by 2 tenths over Brendan Cunningham. Not a single Group N car has
retired, and the entire 12-car class has just a 2-minute spread between them.
¨ The expected Group 2 battle, despite being only 20 minutes into this
rally, is shaping up to be quite a row, with Washington's Scott Fuller
leading over Lauchlin O'Sullivan, who was slowed by a puncture in SS3, by
just 3 tenths of a minute, with James Robinson just 2 tenths behind him.
Maine Forest - SCCA ProRally Championship Round #7
26 July, 2002
Day One Results - Top 50 - (Unofficial)
times are in hundredths
Start Finish Car# Seed Class Driver Country Co-Driver Country
Car Time
6 1 1 0 Open Mark Lovell UK Steve Turvey UK 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 19:82
1 2 17 0 Open Tom McGeer CAN Mark Williams USA 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 20:24
2 3 5 0 Open Mark Higgins UK Michael Gibson UK 03 Hyundai
Tiburon 20:26
4 4 6 0 Open Paul Choiniere USA Jeff Becker USA 03 Hyundai
Tiburon 20:54
9 5 3 1 Open Rhys Millen USA Garry Cowan NZ 02 Mitsubishi Lancer
Evo VII 20:66
7 6 15 0 Open Jonny Milner UK Duncan McMath UK 02 Subaru
Impreza WRX 20:81
5 7 25 0 Open Seamus Burke USA Rory Kennedy IRL 02 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo VII 20:94
10 8 2 1 Open Ramana Lagemann USA Mike Kidd UK 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 21:11
14 9 107 1 Open Tim Paterson USA John Allen USA 97 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo IV 21:88
12 10 52 1 Open Doug Shepherd USA Pete Gladysz USA 94 Mitsubishi
Eclipse 21:90
13 11 39 1 Open Carl Jardevall USA Amity Trowbridge USA 97
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV 21:92
3 12 16 0 Open David Higgins UK Daniel Barritt UK 02 Subaru
Impreza WRX 22:17
29 13 88 3 Open Doug Havir USA Scott Putnam USA 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 22:39
21 14 29 2 GN Tim O'Neil USA Martin Headland CAN 02 Subaru Impreza WRX
22:47
16 15 80 1 Open Jon Kemp USA Rod Hendricksen USA 89 Audi Quattro
4000 22:52
23 16 971 2 GN Brendan Cunningham USA Paul McClean USA 97 Subaru
Impreza 22:65
27 17 914 3 Open Noel Nash USA Proinsias McKenna USA 97 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo IV 22:72
42 18 851 3 PGT Julien Pilon CAN Marie-Eve Pilon CAN 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 22:82
39 19 45 3 GN Shane Mitchell USA Paul Donnelly USA 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 22:90
17 20 22 1 GN Ralph Kosmides USA Jimmy Brandt USA 99 Subaru Impreza
WRX 22:95
43 21 755 3 PGT Eoin McGeough USA Jason Gillespie USA 92 Eagle Talon
23:02
63 22 977 5 Open Martin Donnelly USA Bernard Farrell USA 99 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo V 23:11
19 23 30 2 Open George Plsek USA Joshua Bressem USA 00 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo VI 23:18
20 24 925 2 Open Sakis Hadjiminas USA Jose Vicente USA 95 Subaru
Impreza 23:21
21 25 71 1 G5 Bryan Hourt USA Thomas Tighe USA 00 Acura Integra
23:49
49 26 266 3 G2 Scott Fuller USA Jeff Call USA 96 VW Golf 23:58
67 27 926 5 Open Aidan McCormack USA Enda McCormack USA 99 Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo V 23:64
34 28 937 3 Open Patrick Farrell USA Bob Kelly IRL 00 Subaru Impreza
23:69
32 29 185 3 Open Jon Bogert USA Daphne Bogert USA 88 Toyota Celica
All-Trac 23:72
45 30 90 3 G2 Lauchlin O'Sullivan USA Matt Chester USA 02 Mitsubishi
Lancer RMR 23:76
26 31 62 2 G5 Chris Havas USA Dave Kean USA 00 VW Golf 23:77
45 32 53 3 G5 Don Jankowski USA Ken Nowakk USA 01 Dodge Neon SRT
23:83
37 33 94 3 GN Craig Peeper USA Andrew Dugdale UK 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 23:92
31 34 64 3 Open Sylvester Stepniewski USA Adam Pelc USA 87 Audi
Quattro 4000 23:94
58 35 572 4 G2 James Robinson USA Jim Newton USA 96 Honda Civic 23:95
22 36 83 2 GN Mark Utecht USA Jeff Secor USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX
23:97
25 36 765 2 GN Jon Pizzagalli USA Marc Goldfarb USA 97 Subaru Impreza
WRX-Sti 23:97
28 38 891 3 Open Randy Zimmer USA Russell Strate USA 93 Subaru
Impreza 24:10
54 39 136 4 GN Jason Rivas USA Ole Holter USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX
24:23
47 40 947 3 G2 William Bacon USA Peter Watt USA 97 Acura Integra
24:24
59 41 811 4 G2 Matthew Johnson USA Carl Fisher USA 88 VW Golf Gti 24:33
36 42 103 3 GN Wyeth Gubelmann USA Therin Pace USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX
24:34
76 43 941 5 G2 Dan Cook USA Bill Rhodes USA 68 Datsun 510 24:44
55 44 588 4 GN Jerry Churchill USA Jim Roxbury USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX
24:55
46 44 42 3 G2 Eric Burmeister USA Cindy Krolikowski USA 01 Mazda
Protégé MP3 24:55
40 46 992 3 PGT Bruce Perry USA Adrian Wintle CAN 90 Eagle Talon 24:59
35 47 957 3 GN Malachy Crawford USA Mark McAllister USA 02 Subaru
Impreza WRX 24:65
51 48 79 3 Prod Jeff Field USA Dave Weiman USA 00 Toyota Celica
24:66
41 49 27 3 PGT Greg Healey USA John MacLeod USA 97 Subaru Impreza
24:68
57 50 77 4 PGT Bob Henderson USA John McArthur USA 02 Subaru Impreza
WRX 24:77
Day One Leading Retirements - (Unofficial)
Car # Drivers Name Co-Drivers Name Class Year Make Stage
Retirement cause (unofficial)
41 John Drislane Ronan Burke Open 99 Mitsubishi DNS ECU failure
121 Pablo SanFransisco Mark Bowers G2 85 VW SS1 Oil Pan
110 Mark Nelson Charles Bradley Open 99 Mitsubishi SS3 Ball joint -
suspension
84 JB Niday Diane Sargent G2 92 VW SS3 Radiator hose
761 Jon Nichols David Shindle Open 98 Subaru SS4 Rear differential
Contact: Kurt Spitzner - SCCA Pro Rally Championship Director
direct inquiry Email: sccaprorally@aol.com
Time zone at-event: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 5 hours)
Web sites:
· SCCA ProRally: http://www.sccaprorally.org/
· SCCA Maine Forest ProRally: http://www.maineforestrally.com
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