Start Order & Late News - SCCA ProRally - Susquehannock Trail
The press release text included below is also available in a formatted Word97-Word2000 document. If you would prefer to receive our press releases in that format, or if you wish to opt out of these distributions, please send your request to: ckitchen@scca.com. For immediate release 07 June 2003 Start Order & Late Breaking News: SCCA® ProRallysm Championship Round 3 Susquehannock Trail WELLSBORO, Pennsylvania - The field is set at 64 and conditions are near perfect for the start of the 27th-consecutive Susquehannock Trail Rally, the oldest continuously active SCCA ProRally Championship event in the country. The one-day event will be held on Pennsylvania state forest roads in the "Endless Mountains" to the South and West of Wellsboro. The rally starts Saturday morning, at 10:31 AM EST sharp, following a 90-minute open-to-the-public Parc Expose of all rally cars entered. Subaru Rally Team USA driver Ramana Lagemann, seeking for his first career victory, will lead the field into the lush, but wet "Endless Mountains" Forests. Late Breaking News: · Weather: Competitors and event staff alike have been holding their collective breath this week while determining whether or not the Stoney Creek Water Crossing at the end of Special Stage One will be part of the rally as recent rains have pushed the water level to the maximum. Clear skies on Friday helped lower the creek and with rain not forecast until Saturday afternoon, the Water Crossing was declared a go by the event organizers late Friday afternoon, but steady rains returned overnight, and at 8:AM this morning, the stage was cancelled due to rapidly rising waters. · 2002 British Rally Champion Jonny Milner will begin his belated run at the Group N Championship on Saturday after competing in the Open Class in the first two rounds of the ProRally Championship. Originally scheduled to run in Group N all season, his car was not ready prior to this weekend. Milner begins his quest already 16 points behind both Mark Utecht and Shane Mitchell, who are tied for the Group N Class lead. · Eight-time John Woolf Cup winner Paul Choiniere drew the number two position in the start order for Saturday. STPR is Choiniere's and long-time co-driver Jeff Becker's first event of the 2003 season. · Leon Styles, who finished fourth at Rim of the World - his best finish ever in Rally competition, had a rod thrown through the block in Friday's practice stage, and was likely to withdraw from the event, but secured a Mitsubishi Eclipse late last night and will be able to start. Media Contact & Web Information: · Curtis Kitchen - SCCA, Inc. Public Relations Manager · Direct inquiry e-mail: ckitchen@scca.com Mobile: 785.633.7977 · Time zone at-event: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 5 hours) · SCCA ProRally: http://www.sccaprorally.org/ · Susquehannock Trail SCCA ProRally: http://www.stpr.org (full entry list listed here) 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 Gr 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 lower horsepower cars; PGT - high horsepower production (stock) cars. Susquehannock Trail - SCCA ProRally Championship Round #3 07 June 2003 Top 50 Start Order (subject to final revision) (final entry list available at www.stpr.org) Start Car # Seed Class Driver Country Co-Driver Country Car 1 5 1 Open Ramana Lagemann USA Michael Orr UK 04 Subaru Impreza WRX 2 11 0 Open Paul Choiniere USA Jeff Becker USA 03 Hyundai Tiburon 3 25 0 Open Seamus Burke USA Frances Regan USA 01 Mitsubishi EVO VI 4 4 0 Open Mark Lovell UK Roger Freeman UK 04 Subaru Impreza WRX 5 29 0 Open Tim O'Neil USA Alex Gelsomino USA 02 Ford Focus SVT 6 1 0 Open David Higgins UK Daniel Barritt UK 03 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 7 15 0 GN Jonny Milner UK Duncan McMath UK 02 Subaru Impreza 8 80 2 Open Jon Kemp USA Rod Hendricksen USA 84 Audi 4000 quattro 9 6 1 Open Lauchlin O'Sullivan USA Christian Edstrom USA 03 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 10 45 2 GN Shane Mitchell USA Paul Donnelly USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 11 83 2 GN Mark Utecht USA Jeff Secor USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 12 41 2 Open John Drislane USA Sean Moriarty USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 13 52 2 G5 Doug Shepherd USA Pete Gladysz USA 03 Dodge SRT-4 14 88 2 Open Doug Havir USA Scott Putnam USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 15 374 2 Open Leon Styles USA John Dillon USA 91 Mitsubishi Eclipse 16 116 2 Open Thomas Lawless USA Graig Shinnors IRE 03 Mitsubishi Evolution 17 977 4 Open Martin Donnelly USA Charles Bradley USA 97 Mitsubishi Evo 4 18 31 3 GN Brendan Cunningham USA Bernard Farrell USA 97 Subaru Impreza 19 46 3 G2 Matthew Johnson USA Carl Fisher USA 88 VW GTI 20 851 3 PGT Julien Pilon CAN Marie-Eve Pilon CAN 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 21 857 2 GN Peter Thomson CAN Brian Maxwell CAN 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 22 94 3 GN Craig Peeper USA Ian Bevan UK 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 23 925 3 Open Sakis Hadjiminas USA Jose Vicente USA 95 Subaru Impreza 24 755 3 PGT Eoin McGeough USA Pauric Connolly USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 25 136 3 GN Jason Rivas USA Marc Goldfarb USA 02 Subaru Impreza WRX 26 207 3 G5 Dave Hintz USA Rick Hintz USA 90 Mazda RX-7 Turbo 27 868 5 G2 Gerard Coffey USA Liam Callahan USA 86 Volkswagen Golf 28 937 3 Open Patrick Farrell USA Bob Kelly USA 01 Subaru Impreza 29 62 2 G5 Chris Havas USA Dave Kean USA 01 VW Golf GTi 30 173 3 Open Patrick Lilly USA Jason Gillespie USA 99 Mitsubishi Mirage 31 957 3 Open Malachy Crawford USA Mark McAllister USA 97 Mitsubishi Mirage 32 71 2 G2 Brian Hourt USA Eric Heitkamp USA 00 Acura Integra GS-R 33 42 3 G2 Eric Burmeister USA Cindy Krolikowski USA 02 Mazda Protégé 34 130 4 Open Liam Egan USA Poinsios McKenna USA 00 Mitsubishi Evo VI 35 91 3 GN Jonathan Bottoms USA Eric Dahlgren USA 02 Subaru WRX 36 768 3 Open Celsus Donnelly USA Barry McCann USA 97 Mitsubishi Evo IV 37 81 3 PGT Valdemaras Maciukevicius USA Arunas Salkauskas USA 00 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS 38 941 5 G2/H Dan Cook USA Bill Rhodes USA 68 Datsun 510 39 970 4 G2 John Rahill USA Vlad Hladky USA 85 VW Gti 40 565 3 GN Russell Hodges USA Mike Rossey USA 95 Subaru Impreza WRX STi 41 93 3 G5 Robert Olson USA Conrad Ketelsen USA 93 Porsche 911 42 143 4 G2 Chris Whiteman USA Eric Adams USA 03 Dodge Neon SXT 43 68 5 PGT Eric Macaire USA Urmas Kask USA 02 Audi TT 44 750 5 PGT Jim Larsen USA Doug Moore USA 88 BMW 325 ix 45 96 4 G2 Brian Scott USA Ed Wahl USA 02 Ford Focus SVT 46 76 3 Open Gail Truess USA Pam McGarvey USA 88 Mazda 323GTX 47 60 5 PGT Bruce Davis USA Lee Sorenson USA 94 Mitsubishi Eclipse 48 887 3 G5 Mark Bowers USA James Bowers USA 87 Mitsubishi Starion 49 69 5 G2 Charles Sherrill USA Bryan O'Neal USA 89 Honda CRX Si 50 86 3 Prod. Mike Halley USA Bill Montgomery USA 99 VW New Beetle 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. The SCCA ProRally Championship is presented by Mitsubishi and Subaru, and is televised in North America on SpeedChannel. Time and date listing information available at www.speedtv.com