Sprongl wins Maine Forest Rally!

[Ramana Lagemann <elmool@tiac.net>]

> they had no problems after that.  Choinere managed to grab 6th.  Sakis
> in the twin turbo 90Q (divisional only of course) finished in 5th
> overall, but was apparently plagued with turbo problems around their "T"
> hose arrangement.
> 
> Anyway, all-in-all it looked like a very good rally.  I think it will be
> interesting to see the ESPN footage of Choinere's roll ;-).  Maybe some
> listers that attended the rally can enlighten us further.  Anybody
> actually see the rollover or the results of the rollover?  BTW ESPN is
> due to air this rally August 17.  Sorry I don't have the times, but you
> can either go to ESPN's site or go to Ben Bradley rally page at

I was there, and you all should get my report on the Q list. Regarding
Sakis, he came in something like 13th or 15th overall- I think he is a
better mechanic than he is a driver... he seemed quite abit more
conservative than most of the others in the top 25...
I was working the two in-town stages at night- the canadians who are
used to tarmac stages really hung it out, but my favorites (after
Sprongl, of course) were the Langen twins. The Irish duo realllly hung
it out in their late 80's/early '90's Ford Escort... infact they damn
near made the ESPN guy filming the last turn of the stage pee his pants!
But I digress.
Regarding Choiniere, he rolled his Tiburon into a hole _so_ big that he
only damged the front end and the left front fender. His teamate
actually goofed a turn and slid up a 4 foot high rock, taking out the
skidplate and some other vital organs....


Taken from Andy Schupack's race notes:
> 46.  Jon Kemp and Gail McGuire fell out of the top five in their Audi 4000
>      Quattro after they were forced to change a flat tire on stage #10,
>      dropping them from fifth to eighth place.

For the record: while my friend and I had our impromptu attempt at a
Nascar style pit stop, only one other car passed while the we changed
the wheel on the 4000... I guess we weren't fast enough...

-Ramana