RALLY: Lake Superior ProRally press notes 12
24 October 1999
D&N Bank Lake Superior ProRally Press notes Page 12 71.) Gingras said that he and Westrick had an "awesome time" today. He also served advance notice that he will not run STPR next year. That's because he and his wife are expecting their second child just about then. So he'll be staying close to home during that time frame. Congratulations to the expanding Gingras family. 72.) While we're in a congratulatory mode, happy birthday to Karl Scheible and Art Burmeister. 73.) And happy anniversary to Bryan Hourt parents, Joe and Moni, who are celebrating their 30th here this weekend -- instead of going to Hawaii. 74.) The Daewoo boys are all smiles at the finish. According to navigator Darek Szerejko, they found the cause of their nagging electrical problem, a defective knock sensor, and set the fastest time of any Production car on every stage. They also made Daewoo very happy by bringing home the manufacturers' championship in the class. 75.) Patrick Richard and Claire Chizma, who finished second in PGT in their Subaru Impreza, were feeling pretty good about the fact that they caught and passed one of the top Group 5 cars on the final stage. Earlier, they put on a bit of a show at one of the spectator points when they arrived at the triangular intersection flat-out in fourth and then slid through the island in the middle of the intersection, in full view of the spectators. Richard quickly recovered, back-tracked to where they went off and continued. They feel confident that Chizma has won the PGT co-driver's championship. 76.) Richard has found some OPM (Other People's Money)and will run both the SCCA ProRally and Canadian CARS series next year. 77.) For the third ProRally in a row, Eric Burmeister's co-driver, Mark Buskirk, has put a bit of masking tape on the speedometer. On it is written "finish." It worked. They got fourth in Group 2. 78.) Over the winter, John Rek (Open Class Audi quattro) plans to spend a week in Finland at a snow-and-ice driving school. Then he plans to come home and run in Sno*Drift. 79.) After three years with Al Kintigh as his navigator, next year Doug Davenport (Group 2 Volkswagen Golf GTi) will have a new co-driver –- our own press-room scout and reformed lake-surfer -- Jeff Burmeister. Davenport and Kintigh finished second in PGT in today's ClubRally.