Maine Forest ProRally - Start Order and Late Breaking News
29 July 2000
Start Order & Late Breaking News:
SCCA ProRally Championship - Maine Forest
Rumford Maine: A USA-record of 115 cars are entered in the Maine Forest SCCA
ProRally Championship event. All four Championship manufacturers (Hyundai,
Toyota, Subaru and Mitsubishi) are represented, featuring the hugely
successful Hyundai Tiburons and Elantras, 6 Mitsubishi Lancers, and the debut
of several new Subaru Imprezas, in both FIA Group N and SCCA specification
categories.
The two-day event will be held on privately held lumber company roads in the
area west of Rumford. The Rally starts Friday afternoon, 28 July at 3:00 PM
EST.
Selected late entries, news (driver/co-driver):
· Garen and Floyd "Doc" Shrader's Flash Market sponsored Mitsubishi Lancer
Evo IV has a new co-driver - Mike Fennell of Jamaica. No stranger to
Performance Rally, Fennell was the 1998 Overall Co-Driver Champion with
fellow Jamaican David Summerbell, also in a Lancer Evo. Garen's father -
"Doc" will be assuming the role of team manager, as the team prepares to make
the leap to a full-time national championship effort in 2001. Adding Fennell
to the team is "the final key" says Garen, who credits his father with
"really helping with the steep learning curve to run with the series leaders."
· One of the more unusual entries is that of Heikki Salmen, an FIA World
Rally driver from Finland, who is flying in his FIA Gr A Mercedes C200 just
for this event. A 25-year veteran of the sport, Salmen is making his US
performance rally debut this weekend. Also adding to the international
flavor of the event is the late addition of a Russian entry. The
Prokofjeva/Grichetchkine team, driving a VW Golf equipped with Russian rally
tires, will be running for Production class honors.
· Current Canadian performance rally points leader Tom McGeer is making his
first SCCA ProRally start of the season, in his championship leading Subaru
Impreza WRX. Along for the ride is US rally veteran Mark Williams, who also
serves as his co-driver north of the border.
· The weather, which is always a factor in performance rally, has been
exceptionally wet, with flood warnings posted for much of the northeast. The
rain slowed tonight, and the forecast is for a gradual drying off through
Saturday afternoon with partly cloudy skies - certainly effective in keeping
the dust down, at least for the first stages of the event.
· Entrants for this event came from 27 states and the District of Colombia,
3 provinces of Canada, and several overseas countries, makes this one of the
most nationally diverse fields ever.
· The start order, due to the huge size of the field, has been condensed
down to the top 50 teams for this release. The complete listing, with up to
the minute updates, is available at the Maine Forest website address shown
below.
Contact: Kurt Spitzner - SCCA Pro Rally Championship Marketing and Media
Manager
direct inquiry Email: werace4u@aol.com
Time zone at-event: Eastern Daylight Time (GMT - 5 hours)
Press room phone: 207.369.0403 26-30 July only
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 A & 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.
Maine Forest SCCA ProRally Championship Round #5 28
July, 2000
Start Order (subject to revision)
start Car# Seed Class Driver Co-driver year Car
1 1 FIA Open Noel Lawler Charlie Bradley 00 Hyundai Tiburon
2 2 FIA Open Paul Choiniere Jeff Becker 00 Hyundai Tiburon
3 8 FIA Open Frank Sprongl Dan Sprongl 93 Ford Escort Cosworth
4 4 1 Open Garen Shrader Michael Fennell 95 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV
5 3 1 Open Jon Kemp Gail McGuire 84 Audi 4000 quattro
6 179 1 Open Tom McGeer Mark Williams 96 Subaru Impreza WRX
7 52 1 Open Doug Shepherd Peter Gladysz 92 Mitsubishi Eclipse
8 975 1 Open Heikki Salmen Constantine Mantopoulos 96 Mercedes C220
9 61 1 FIA-N Karl Scheible Russ Hughes 98 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V
10 6 1 FIA-N Henry Krolikowski Cindy Krolikowski 95 Subaru WRXSTI
11 12 1 PGT Steve Gingras Bill Westrick 91 Eagle Talon
12 5 1 Gr 5 Ralph Kosmides Ken Cassidy 96 Toyota Supra turbo
13 142 1 Gr 5 Jon Nichols Mick Koch 95 VW Golf GTi
14 40 2 Open Bruno Kreibich Rod Hendricksen 83 Audi Coupe quattro
15 116 2 Open Thomas Lawless Brendan Lawless 91 Mitsubishi Eclipse
16 123 2 FIA-N Vicente Frontinan Nicholas Pessoa 98 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V
17 962 2 Open Keith Townsend Ian McEwen 97 Mitshubishi Lancer Evo IV
18 304 2 Open Lon Peterson Bill Gutzman 00 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
19 20 2 Open George Plsek Renn Phillips 90 Audi Quattro 90
20 115 2 FIA-N Seamus Burke Frank Cunningham 97 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IV
21 985 2 Open Steve Barnes Melanie Kelly 87 Audi 5000 Quattro
22 168 2 PGT Celsus Donnelly Paul Donnelly 90 Eagle Talon tsi
23 9 2 PGT Lauchlin O'Sullivan Tba 94 Mitsubishi Eclipse
24 162 2 PGT Patrick Richard Ben Bradley 98 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
25 71 2 Gr 5 Bryan Hourt Tom Tighe 97 Honda Civic
26 83 2 Gr 5 Mark Utecht Brenda Corneliusen 86 Dodge Omni GLH turbo
27 82 2 Gr 5 Mike Hurst Rob Bohn 94 Dodge Shadow
28 945 2 Gr 5 Rick Davis Marc Goldfarb 95 BMW 318 ti
29 180 2 Gr 2 Chris Havas Eric Tremblay 95 VW Golf
30 108 2 Gr 2 Gerald Sweet Stuart Spark 74 Saab 99 EMS
31 99 3 Open Sakis Hadjiminas Brian Maxwell 95 Subaru Impreza Turbo
32 986 3 Open Demitri Andreou Ron Norton 90 Audi quattro
33 175 3 Open Alex Erisoty Ben Greisler 89 Audi 90 quattro
34 64 3 Open Sylvester Stepniewski Adam Pelc 87 Audi 4000 quattro
35 29 3 Open Dean Fry Greg Usavage 90 Subaru Legacy
36 27 3 PGT Greg Healey John Macleod 97 Subaru Impreza
37 188 3 Gr 5 Andrew Havas Tba 79 Mazda RX -7
38 166 3 Gr 5 John Daubenmier Stanley Rosen 88 Chevrolet S10
39 38 3 Gr 5 Lesley Suddard Tba 87 Dodge Charger
40 73 3 Gr 2 Nicholas Robinson Carl Lindquist 97 Honda Civic
41 351 3 Gr 2 Jay Streets Bill Feyling 85 Toyota Corolla
42 972 3 P Elizabeth Campbell Karen Houghton 91 VW Golf Gti
43 76 4 Prod Ted Mendham Lise Mendham 91 Nissan Sentra SE-R
44 11 4 Open Ivan Orisek Olga Orisek 84 Audi 4000 quattro
45 126 4 Open Arthur Wojcik Charles Cox 90 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
46 398 4 Open Kurosh Jahromi Tony Lumino 89 Ford Escort Cosworth
47 185 4 Open Jon Bogert Daphne Bogert 88 Toyota Celica all trac
48 565 4 FIA-N Russell Hodges Jimmy Brandt 95 Subaru Impreza WRX-STI
49 950 4 PGT Shane Mitchell Damien Hynds 92 Eagle Talon
50 992 4 PGT Bruce Perry Philip Barnes 90 Eagle Talon