Prescott Forest PRO Rally
Round #6 - 1994 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Championship
July 9, 1994


Press Notes
by Andy Schupack

Final Results


                         MEDIA ALERT

 Event: Prescott Forest PRO Rally - Round #6 of the 1994
        SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series.  Race cars from around the
        world will compete at high speeds through the Prescott
        National Forest north and east of Prescott, Arizona.

 When:  Saturday, July 9, 1994, 4:00 PM - midnight Pacific time

 Where: Rally headquarters is the Best Western Prescotonian, (602)
        445-3096, Rm. 112.

 Duration: 61.5 stage miles, 139 total miles, 5 stages

 Rank:  Coefficient 3 Divisional PRO Rally in which drivers and co-
        drivers with national competition licenses can score points
        towards the national championship.  National points will be
        awarded with a multiplier of .6 (first place finishers, normally
        awarded 20 points, will receive 12 points).  Those competing only
        in the Divisional competition will be skipped over in the overall
        computation of national points.  Presented by the Arizona Region
        of the Sports Car Club of America.  The National PRO Rally series
        is sponsored by Michelin Tire Corporation - with field
        administration by the American Rally Association - and is
        sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America.

 Expected Top Entries:  Jeff Zwart, Woody Creek, Colo., Porsche
        911 Carrera, currently in second place overall in the national
        standings, just won his class on July 4 at Pikes Peak; Tony
        Takaori, Mitsubishi Galant, Japanese driver living in Little
        Rock, Ark., won Group A here last year, right hand drive car;
        Goran Ostlund, Swedish-born, Seattle-bred driver now living in
        El Salvador, Saab 99, leads Group 2 class; Dave Turner, Hemet,
        Calif, Mitsubishi Eclipse, leads Production class; Mike
        Whitman, Farmington, NM, Datsun 510, top Group 2 contender;
        Jason Priestley, Van Nuys, Calif., star of Fox TV series
        "Beverly Hills 90210," Toyota All-Trac, did not finish a rally
        earlier this year in California due to engine problems.

 Visuals: Anyone requiring supplied photos or video should contact
          Andy Schupack at (401) 739-5677.

 Media Info: We will provide phone-ins on event information, driver
             interviews, and results.  We will fax stories and agate
             Saturday and Sunday.  We have B-roll available for TV.

 Contact: Andy Schupack - national series media liaison:

                       (401) 739-5677 (24 hours)


  Round #6 - 1994 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series - Prescott Forest PRO Rally
                            Entry List - 7/9/94 - 1:00 PM (PST)

 Start  Car  Driver/             Co-Driver/       Make/Model/Class/
 Pos.   No.  Hometown            Hometown         Division 
 -----  ---  ------------------  ---------------- -------------------

  1       4  Jeff Zwart          Martin Headland  Porsche Carrera 4/Open
             Aspen, CO           Calgary, Alberta      Nat/Div.

  2       8  Tony Takaori        Ken Cassidy      Mitsubishi Galant VR4/Gp.A
             Kyoto, Japan        Mesa, AZ              Nat/Div.

  3      74  Windy Imperial      Rudolfo Cruz        Eagle Talon/Open
             Foster City, CA     Union City, CA         Nat/Div

  4       2  Mitch McCullough    Scott Webb           Mazda 323GTX/Open
             Laguna Niguel, CA   Hermosa Beach, CA         Nat/Div

  5      11  Lon Peterson        Jennifer Peterson      Mitsubishi Eclipse
             Victorville, CA     Victorville, CA            Divisional

  6      24  Goran Ostlund       Steve Baker         Saab 99/Group 2
             San Salvador        Snohomish, WA          Nat/Div.

  7      28  Mike Whitman        Kevin Linville     Datsun 510/Group 2
             Farmington, NM      Durango, CA            Nat/Div.

  8      78  Roger Hull          Sein Gaueger     Mitsubishi Pick-up/Group 2
             Prescott, AZ        Lytle Creek, CA        Nat/Div.

  9      46  Rui Brasil          Tony Tavares    Audi Quattro/Open
             San Jose, CA        San Jose, CA           Nat/Div.

 10      17  Anton Musev         Dave White         Subaru RX Turbo/Open
             Corona, CA          Benicia, CA            Nat/Div.

 11      15  Paula Gibeault      Terry Stonecipher      Subaru RX
             Ridgecrest, CA      Bakersfield, CA        Divisional

 12      83  Chris Weleff        Brian Paul       Toyota Celica GT4/Group A
             Riverside, CA       Anaheim, CA             Nat/Div.

 13       5  Ron Wood            Kelly Walsh            VW Scirocco
             Anaheim, CA         Anaheim, CA            Divisional

 14      10  Bill Malik          Roine Anderson         Volvo 240
             Burbank, CA         N. Hollywood, CA       Divisional

 15      93  Tony Shumaker       Liz Shumaker     Mitsubishi Eclipse/Open
             Mission Viejo, CA   Mission Viejo, CA      Nat/Div.

 16     104  Harris Done         Larry Scott            Mazda RX-7
             Santa Monica, CA    Escondido, CA          Divisional

 17     124  Dennis Chizma       John Moore             VW Rabbit
             Simi, CA            Lytle Creek, CA        Divisional

 18      94  Dave Turner         Ben Bradley      Mitsubishi Eclipse/Prod.
             Hemet, CA           Portland, OR            Nat/Div.

 19      57  Lucinda Strub       Matt Sweeney           Toyota Pick-up/Open
             Van Nuys, CA        Van Nuys, CA           Nat/Div.

 20      43  Peter Lahm          Keith Roper         Datsun 510/Open
             Phoenix, AZ         Peoria, IL             Nat/Div.

 21      23  Tony Chavez           John Elkin           Datsun 510
             Santa Fe Springs, CA  Lytle Creek, CA      Divisional

 22      166 Robert Tallini      Mark Scott             Toyota Corolla
             Downey, CA          Palmdale, CA           Divisional

 23      156 Steve Scott         Bob Scott              Toyota Corolla
             Montrose, CA        Sun Valley, CA         Divisional

 24      133 Tony DelaCuesta     Tino Alcances          Toyota Corolla
             Simi Valley, CA     Northridge, CA         Divisional

 25       35 Jason Priestley     Kevin Caffrey     Toyota All-Trac/Prod. GT
             Van Nuys, CA        N. Hollywood, CA         Nat/Div.

 26       77 Cable Rhodes        Scott Gerigan          Mazda RX-7
             Prescott, AZ        Prescott Valley, AZ    Divisional

 27       70 David Jacobus       Bill Gutzmann          Dodge Colt
             Santee, CA          Ontario, CA            Divisional

 28      183 William Nation      Donna Casias           Mazda RX-7
             Los Angeles, CA     Los Angeles, CA        Divisional

 29       71 Garnet Baril        Pamela Baril           Volkswagen Rabbit
             Provo, UT           Provo, UT              Divisional

                                    
Press Notes #1 
Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, Arizona 
Round #6 - SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series 
July 9, 1994 - 2:00 PM (Pacific)

 1. Welcome to Prescott, Arizona, and the seventh running of
    the Prescott Forest Rally, Round #6 of the SCCA/Michelin
    PRO Rally series.  This is the third year that national
    PRO Rally drivers will be able to score points at the
    Prescott Forest Rally, with veteran and recent Pikes Peak
    winner Rod Millen winning the event in 1992 in a Mazda
    323GTX, and defending champions Paul Choiniere/Jeff
    Becker taking the win last year in their Audi Quattro
    S-2.

 2. The weather in Prescott is hot - as you might assume from
    watching the national weather map - but not as hot as you
    might think.  Being several thousand feet above sea
    level, it is in the high 80's this afternoon, when it is
    well over 100 degrees in Phoenix.  Organizer Jeff
    Hendricks is hoping for a late-afternoon thundershower to
    cool off the temperatures and wet down the roads.  Dust
    and rough conditions have played a role in this rally
    before.

 3. This year's Prescott Forest Rally is a "60 percenter,"
    that is, a divisional PRO Rally where national
    competitors can score championship points equal to 60
    percent of their normal value.  Drivers running for
    national points will receive 60 percent of a full
    national event (first place - 12 points instead of the
    normal 20; second place - 9 points instead of 15; third
    place - 7.2 points instead of 12, etc.).  The final
    overall national standings will by-pass the divisional-
    only competitors.  The rally was a 60 percenter back in
    '92, went to a full national last year, and is back to a
    60 percenter this year.

    The Prescott organizers found that last year's full
    national required more roads than they could comfortably
    provide, and that their committee was much better suited
    to running a divisional.

 4. A first for 1994 is the Michelin Tire Corporation
    sponsorship for that national series - a three year
    agreement between the tire company and the Sports Car
    Club of America.  Most of the top competitors are using
    the specially-constructed Michelin XGT Rally tires, which
    come in several compounds and tread designs to help the
    cars run fast in the wide variety of conditions
    encountered in the series.  This year's schedule presents
    the mud and rain of Washington State, the deserts of
    Southern California and Arizona, the snow and ice of New
    England, and all of those conditions combined at the
    famous Press on Regardless event (renamed the Lake
    Superior PRO Rally) in the upper peninsula of Michigan.

 5. Yet another first for this year is the debut of the new
    national class - Group 2.  These cars, small
    displacement, two-wheel drive, normally aspirated open
    class cars, give a place for both competitors and
    manufacturers to enter a broader range of vehicles which
    previously had to run in the big car class.  For this
    event, four Group 2 cars are entered, including class
    leaders Goran Ostlund/Steve Baker in a Saab 99.
    Ostlund/Baker will have stiff competition from defending
    national divisional PRO Rally champs Mike Whitman/Kevin
    Linville in a Datsun 510 and Prescott resident Roger Hull
    and co-driver Sein Gaueger in a Mitsubishi Pick-up.

 6. As registration closes this afternoon, there are 29
    entries for this year's Prescott Forest Rally, with 15
    cars running for national points.  Although all national
    cars are listed as divisional class entries as well - and
    will be listed in the divisional standings - some of the
    top drivers who have too much national experience or too
    many high national finishes are not eligible for
    divisional points.

 7. The favorite for this year's Prescott Forest Rally has to
    be the Porsche 911 Carrera 4 of Jeff Zwart and Martin
    Headland.  Zwart, who was second here last year, spent
    last Monday (July 4) with his car at the famous Pikes
    Peak Hill Climb in Colorado, where he won the Pikes Peak
    Open class.  Although his victory at Pikes Peak was in
    this same car, he used a completely different engine and
    suspension setup there, so the crew was busy midweek
    converting the car back to a rally racer for the Prescott
    Forest Rally.

                           
Press Notes #2 
Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, Arizona 
Round #6 - SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series 
July 9, 1994 - 4:00 PM (Pacific)

 8. Last year's Group A winner and third place finisher
    overall was Tony Takaori, a Japanese rallyist from Kyoto
    who is spending three years in the U.S. living in Little
    Rock, AK.  Takaori, whose Mitsubishi Galant is right-hand
    drive, is using Mesa, AZ's Ken Cassidy as a co-driver.
    Cassidy, who co-drove for Tony on several occaisions last
    year, including two top-five finishes, says that he is
    one of the fastest rally drivers in the circuit, and
    could challenge Zwart this weekend.

 9. If you are wondering why more of the top national drivers
    aren't here this weekend (the series-leading
    Choiniere/Becker Audi, the Merrill/Wickens Ford Escort
    Cosworth, the Joy/Maxwell Open class Mitsubishi Eclipse,
    etc.), there are two reasons.

    --With only six of the 11 events on the schedule counting
      for the championship (your six best scores count -
      other results are dropped), and this rally only
      yielding a potential of 12 points, it is one that some
      competitors can afford to skip.

    --SCCA purposely added an East Coast 60 percenter in
      Rumford, Maine on July 23 when Prescott became final on
      the schedule and mandated that you could only earn
      points by running one or the other - not both.  The
      theory was that to not make people go cross-country for
      a 60 percent rally, so most of the East Coasters will
      go to Maine later this month.

 10. The Jason Priestley/Kevin Caffrey Toyota Celica All-Trac,
     the only entry in the usually-popular Production GT
     class, debuted at Rim of the World in May in Palmdale,
     Calif., with less than spectacular results.  Priestley,
     the star of Beverly Hills 90210, has been running
     divisional rallies and California Rally Series events for
     the past 18 months in a Honda CRX, but stepped up to the
     240 hp All-Trac in May.  The car, which was barely
     completed in time for the event, suffered turbo and
     engine performance ills before Priestley withdrew half-
     way through the event.  The crew has worked on the car
     since then, and Jason hopes for a better run this
     weekend.  At last year's Prescott event, Priestley DNFed
     the first night in the Honda, but came back to run well
     on Saturday to finish the divisional event.

 11. Here are the top ten drivers overall in the standings
     after 5 events, and what their status is this weekend:

     --Paul Choiniere, Audi Quattro S-2, the series defending
       champion, leads '94 series with 58 points and three
       wins, and has skipped Prescott to attend the Maine
       event - much closer to his Vermont home.

     --Jeff Zwart, Porsche 911 Carrera 4, in second place
       with 51 points, is here to try to move into first
       place past Choiniere.

     --Henry Joy, Mitsubishi Eclipse, in third place with 41
       points, will skip both 60 percenters and rejoin the
       series in August in Minnesota.

     --Carl Merrill, Ford Escort Cosworth, in fourth place
       with 39 points, will go to his home rally in Maine.

     --Goran Ostlund, Saab 99, in fifth place overall with
       28.8 points, and leading the Group 2 class by 15
       points, is here to try to extend both positions.

     --Selcuk Karamanoglu, Mitsubishi Eclipse, a former
       Turkish Rally champion, is in 6th place with 26.2
       points and leads Production GT by 40 points.  Like
       Merrill, he is a resident of Maine and will run there.

     --Bruno Kreibich, Audi Quattro, PRO Rally's oldest
       active driver at 68 years old, in 7th place with 17
       points, is not here as he is semi-retired (might run
       Maine in July and the full national event in Maine in
       December).

     --Vinnie Frontinan, Toyota Celica GT4, who also ran
       Pikes Peak last week as well, is building a new Toyota
       All Trac which will probably debut in Minnesota in
       August, so he is not here.  He is in 8th place with
       16.8 points.

     --Greg Lund, Mazda 323GTX, a top rally driver from
       Seattle, did not make the trip to Prescott.  He has 16
       points and is in 9th place.

     --Mike Whitman, Datsun 510, is here to try to do some
       catching up in Group 2, where he is 22 points behind
       Ostlund.  Whitman is 10th overall with 14 points.

 12. A final note on scoring - there are no entry points
     awarded at 60 percent rallies.

                            
Press Notes #3 
Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, Arizona 
Round #6 - SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series 
July 9, 1994 - 11:00 PM (Pacific)

 13. 29 cars indeed started the Prescott Forest Rally, but
     the rain everyone had hoped for to cool things down and
     settle the dust never came.  To make matters even more
     difficult, the first stage is a mini-hill climb, so car
     temperatures rose to begin the rally.  Fortunately,
     stage #2 is mostly downhill, so most of the competitors
     had cool-running engines by the end of #2.

 14. The rally had a major disruption on stage #2 as the
     Subaru RX Turbo of driver Anton Musev and co-driver Dave
     White went off the road and rolled down a steep cliff.
     Competitors behind the pair who saw what happened
     stopped to help, and Musev and White were taken to the
     hospital, where both were treated for various injuries -
     none of them reported to be life-threatening.  We will
     pass more details along as we have them, but both Musev
     and White are reported to be in good condition.

     The rally schedule, however, was not in good condition,
     as the incident caused extensive delays and the
     organizer was forced to eliminate stage #2 times
     completely from the competition as more than 1/2 the
     field did not get a time.  With a thrown stage #2, there
     were no intermediary times in which to re-seed the re-
     start after the service following stage #4, so we still
     don't have any stage times.  We will pass them along
     when we get them.

 15. Because of the hard work of organizing committee member
     and scoring staff person Cindy Hendricks, we have the
     following conditions to report:

     --Zwart/Headland Porsche - really misses the extra 250
       horsepower Zwart had earlier this week at Pikes Peak.
       Lost their power steering, but just needed more fluid.

     --Takaori/Cassidy Mitsubishi - put rear end in a ditch,
       no have bad vibration; trying to fix in service.
       Also, like many competitors, lost brakes on early
       uphill stage and had no odometer early in the event.

     --Gibeault/Stonecipher Subaru had a flat tire after
       stage #1, and reports an engine miss.

     --The Group 2 battle rages on, with Ostlund/Baker Saab
       99 reporting loss of brakes on stage #1, while the
       Whitman/Linville Datsun 510 blew a right front strut
       and had an exhaust leak, and the Hull/Gaueger
       Mitsubishi Pick-up bent its skid plate.

     --Peterson/Peterson Plymouth Arrow is having rear axle
       problems.

     --Brasil/Tavares Audi Quattro had a flat tire on stage
       #1.

     Despite all these ills, the Musev Subaru is the only
     official DNF so far, and this will be an interesting
     battle to the finish.  When we get stages times, you'll
     get them.

 16. The rally only has one stage left, but it is a doosie -
     20 miles long.

                           
Press Notes #4 
Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, Arizona 
Round #6 - SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series 
July 10, 1994 - 2:00 AM (Pacific)

 17. The seventh running of the Prescott Forest Rally is now
     history, and the Valvoline Porsche 911 Carrera 4 team of
     driver Jeff Zwart of Woody Creek, Colo., and co-driver
     Martin Headland, from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has won
     its third SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally of the season, and
     regained the overall points lead in the series.  Zwart's
     time on the shortened Prescott National Forest course -
     shortened because of the elimination of stage #2 - was
     almost two minutes faster than that of second-place
     finishers Tony Takaori and Ken Cassidy in the right-hand
     driver Group A Mitsubishi Galant.

     A combination of very warm temperatures - even into the
     early morning hours - and very dusty conditions made
     Zwart's position of first on the road a great advantage,
     even when the rally went to three minute intervals late
     in the event.  Although the power steering fluid problem
     mentioned earlier did not affect the Porsche's
     performance, Zwart said the car seemed down on power,
     and they will go through it thoroughly before the next
     event.

     Zwart now leads the series with 63 points, while
     defending champion Paul Choiniere has 58.  Zwart has
     also won events so far this year at the Wild West PRO
     Rally and the Doo Wop Rally, both in Olympia, Wash.
     Choiniere has won the Sand Hills event in South
     Carolina, the Rim of the World event in California, and
     the STPR rally in Pennsylvania.

 18. Takaori was unable to shake the rear-end vibration -
     probably something to do with the driveshaft - for the
     remainder of the rally and couldn't close the gap
     between himself and Zwart.  For the first couple of
     stages, the times between the top two cars were close.

 19. Third overall (unofficially pending the status of some
     road points) was the Eagle Talon of Windy Imperial/Rudy
     Cruz.  This is the first time the car has run since the
     '93 Press-on-Regardless event, and Windy was quite
     pleased with its performance.  Except for the loss of
     his rear windshield on stage, the team had a perfect
     rally.

 20. Fourth overall, and probably clinching the Southern
     Pacific divisional PRO Rally season series, was the Open
     class Mazda 323GTX of Mitch McCullough/Scott Webb.
     McCullough/Webb, who ralled their car off the road at
     this event last year, had few problems at this year's
     rally other than an overheating situation which forced
     them to keep their heater on during the event.  A
     competition gear box recently installed in the car has
     made it much more competitive, according to McCullough.

 21. In the tough Group 2 competition, the Mike Whitman/Kevin
     Linville Datsun 510 team accomplished its goal for the
     event - to win Group 2 and make up some points on
     leaders Goran Ostlund and Sam Bryan.  Whitman passed
     Bryan and moved into second place in Group 2, as well as
     finishing fifth overall here at Prescott.

 22. We are happy to report that Anton Musev is out of the
     hospital and resting comfortably at the headquarters
     hotel after suffering a mild concussion from his earlier
     tumble.

 23. We will have final results with stage times later this
     morning, but we must report that TV Star Jason Priestley
     with co-driver Kevin McCaffery did not finish the rally
     due to mechanical problems.  

     More later.


Press Notes #5 
Prescott Forest Rally Prescott, Arizona 
Round #6 - SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series 
July 11, 1994 - 9:00 AM (Eastern)

 24. In the divisional PRO Rally event - and since this was
     a divisional event overall and everyone who entered was
     technically a divisional competitor - Zwart and Takaori
     are not eligible for divisional points because of their
     national seed (FIA and 1 respectively), so Windy
     Imperial wins the divisional, with Mitch
     McCullough/Scott Webb in a Mazda 323GTX second and Mike
     Whitman/Kevin Linville in a Datsun 510 third.
     McCullough clinches the Southern Pacific divisional PRO
     Rally championship with the win.

 25. A notable performance in the divisional event is the top
     ten finish (9th to be precise) of Rim of the World
     organizer Paula Gibeault, who beat many PRO Rally
     veterans including Ron Wood, Tony Shumaker and Dave
     Turner in her Subaru RX.  In fact, places 8 - 12 in the
     divisional standings were decided by less than 35
     seconds.

 26. Top five national finishers quotes:

     --Zwart/Headland - "The seals blew on the power steering
       pump and we lost all our fluid - we were lucky it
       didn't start a fire.  Although Tony Takaori was very
       close to us on stage one, being first on the road was
       important to our win.  Even though we went fast, the
       engine didn't really sound right all night, and we're
       in for a complete overhaul before the next event."

     --Takaori/Cassidy - "We landed badly after a big jump on
       stage #2, and we had a bad vibration after that -
       probably something in the driveshaft.  If we had known
       the stage was going to be thrown out, we wouldn't have
       tried so hard...  We will be going after the Group A
       championship for the second half of the year."

     --Imperial/Cruz - "This is the first time we have run
       the Eagle Talon since its POR debut last year, and I
       was very comfortable in the car.  Except for the
       shattered rear windshield we incurred on stage #1, it
       was a smooth ride."

     --McCullough/Webb - "The close ratio competition gear
       box we added to the Mazda 323GTX really makes a
       difference in a rally like this where there are so
       many elevation changes.  We had to keep the heater on
       to keep the car from overheating."

     --Whitman/Linville - "We accomplished what we came here
       for - to make up points on the Group 2 class and move
       into second place, although Ostlund was second, so we
       only gained three points on him.  As the organizer was
       able to select the best roads from last year, this
       year's event was a lot smoother."

 27. As Whitman eluded to above, the fact that the organizer
     didn't have to come up with 100 miles of stage roads
     (minimum needed for a full national event), the rally
     was a lot smoother than '93, where rough roads put out
     the majority of the field.

 28. The Rui Brasil/Tony Tavares Audi Quattro was headed for
     a top 10 finish before rolling on the last stage.
     Although the car ended up on its wheels, the team lost
     almost 30 minutes to the field, and became the last
     finishing entry.

 29. The series now moves to its "East Coast Summer 60
     percent" in Maine - The Maine Forest Summer Rally - on
     July 23, and then to the full national event in Bemidji,
     Minn. August 26 - 28.

   
For Immediate Release       Contact:  Andy Schupack
                                      (401) 739-5677


 ZWART WINS TWO NATIONAL TITLES IN SIX DAYS AS PORSCHE SWEEPS

        SCCA/MICHELIN PRO RALLY IN HOT ARIZONA DESERT


 PRESCOTT, AZ -- July 10 -- Taking his second national

 motorsports title in less than a week, Jeff Zwart, of Woody

 Creek, Colorado, with co-driver Martin Headland, has won the

 Prescott Forest Rally, round #6 of the SCCA/Michelin PRO

 Rally series, in his Valvoline Porsche 911 Carrera 4.


 Zwart, who won his class at the famous Pikes Peak Hill Climb

 in the same car on July 4, overcame power steering problems

 to score a 1:53 victory over the Group A Mitsubishi Galant

 of Tony Takaori and Ken Cassidy.  It was his third 1994 PRO

 Rally win.


 "At Pikes Peak, we had a turbo engine from Porsche

 Motorsports with almost twice the horsepower of our rally

 motor, so getting used to 300 horsepower instead of 500 was

 an adjustment," said Zwart, who picked up enough points to

 glide back into first place in the standings ahead of

 defending champion Paul Choiniere, who did not enter this

 event.


 Other class winners included Mike Whitman/Kevin Linville

 in a Datsun 510 (Group 2), and Dave Turner/Ben Bradley in a

 Mitsubishi Eclipse (Production).


 The only major incident of the event involved the Subaru RX

 Turbo of Anton Musev and Dave White, which rolled on stage #2

 and bounced down a rather steep cliff.  Musev suffered a

 slight concussion and was taken to the hospital for

 observation, but was later released.  This forced the

 organizers to cancel stage #2, so the rally was scored on

 only four stages, but two of the stages (three and four) were

 11 miles and 20 miles long respectively, hard work in the

 dusty, 90 degree desert heat.


 In all, 20 of the 29 starters (12 of the 16 national

 competitors) completed the high-speed, 61-mile course through

 the Prescott National Forest.


 "Beverly Hills 90210" TV star Jason Preistley, with co-driver

 Kevin McCaffrey, ran competitively on the first stage,

 finishing 14 among the 29 competitors, but engine problems

 put their Toyota All-Trac out of the event after two stages.


 In a PRO Rally, each team consists of a driver and a

 co-driver (or navigator), and the exact course is kept

 secret until just before the event - unlike World Rally where

 practice is allowed.  The cars then start at one-minute

 intervals and race at top speed against the clock over

 competition stages - in this case the closed forest

 roads in the Prescott National Forest.


 Speeds of more than 120 miles-per-hour can be reached on

 long straight-aways, with the team achieving the fastest

 combined times over the competition stages winning

 the event.  Drivers stay on the existing roads, and never

 blaze their own trails.


   SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally events run around the country, in

   conditions from the blazing Arizona desert in August to the frozen

   tundra of Maine in December, and pit Audis, Mitsubishis, Porsches,

   Fords, Toyotas, Subarus and other marques against each other.


   The 1994 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series consists of eleven events,

   and is sponsored by Michelin Tire Corporation, with field

   administration by the American Rally Association, and series sanction

   by the Sports Car Club of America.


   The next event on the SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally circuit will be the

   Maine Forest Summer Rally, to be held in Rumford, Maine, on

   July 23.                        
                              


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