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RALLY: Lake Superior ProRally press notes 11

24 October 1999

D&N Bank Lake Superior ProRally
Press notes
Page 11


64.) Sure. Sure. Now that the rally is over the wind dies down and the
sun comes out. As the final few teams come back into town, we have a
gorgeous sunset rather like those that you'd see in Arizona Highways
magazine, with silvers and bright, flaming reds. It's only temporary,
though, really just a momentary break in the clouds, but it is a nice
way to end the rally.
65.) Henry Joy, who finished second overall, had a ball and didn't
seem at all disappointed to be runner-up. "Any time that I finish
second to John Buffum," he said, "I feel that I have won the rally."
He and Chris Griffin finished less than two minutes behind Buffum in
the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo II.
66.) According to Karl Scheible, he and Gail McGuire "had an absolute
ball" in the Evo V, enroute to fifth overall. "We worked very hard to
win the hillclimb (Brockway Mountain). I was able to beat John
(Buffum) both times, but Paul (Choiniere) took a few seconds off me."
67.) Scheible and McGuire have taken a little good-natured kidding
about the fact that their ride this weekend, the Evo V, does not have
a bud vase. Bud vases are standard on the Volkswagen New Beetle, the
car in which they won the 1999 Production driver and co-driver
championships.
68.) Mike Hurst and Rob Bohn were the Group 5 winners in their Mazda
Rx-7. Hurst felt that they had a distinct advantage over the other
two-wheel-drive cars in yesterday's sloppy conditions. The cushion
they built up from that advantage allowed them to play it safe today.
69.) What Hurst didn't mention initially was that the advantage came
from the Bridgestone R-39s that they ran yesterday. Later on, he
volunteered (and Cindy Krolikowski confirmed) that it was the
Krolikowskis, his team's chief rivals, who had sold them the tires
that they used to beat them. On top of that bit of help, the
Krolikowskis also helped to organize a service crew for Hurst and
Bohn.
70.) Steve Gingras and Bill Westrick finished sixth overall and in
Open in their Eagle Talon. Gingras said that they had a fun day and
were able to make up some of the time lost yesterday. At the finish,
they were unable to back the car into its assigned slot, due to a
broken part somewhere in he brake system. So the car had to sit just
about where they stopped it in impound.