Courtesy of Andy Schupack, SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series:


               Round #4 - 1995 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series
                  Wild West PRO Rally - Olympia, Washington
                       Final Results - National Rally
 
Finish  Car  Driver/             Co-Driver/        Make/Model/Class/
 Pos.   No.  Hometown            Hometown          Time (Min:sec)
-----   ---- ------------------  ----------------- -------------------
 
  1       1  Paul Choiniere      Jeff Becker      Hyundai Elantra/Open
             Shelburne, VT       Great Neck, NY         2:37:57
 
  2       4  Henry Joy           Chris Griffin    Mitsuibshi Eclipse/Open
             Atlanta, MI         Burbank, CA            2:38:22
 
  3       3  Carl Merrill        John Bellefleur  Ford Escort Cosworth/Open
             Ogunquit, ME        Toronto, ONT           2:41:55
 
  4      10  Sam Bryan           Rob Walden        Saab 900/Group 2
             Kent, WA            Seattle, WA            2:50:03
 
  5      18  Dave White          Ben Greisler       VW GTI/Group 2
             Benicia, CA         Philadelphia, PA       2:50:06
 
    6      31  Ralph Kosmides      Joe Noyes          Ford Escort/Open
             Newport Beach, CA   Seattle, WA            2:55:15
 
    7    118   Rick Beson          Ben Bradley        Mazda Protege/Open
             Portland, OR        Portland, OR           2:55:23
 
  8     66   Tad Ohtake          Bob Martin         Ford Escort GT/Prod.
             Dearborn, MI        Goodrich, MI           2:57:15
 
  9     71   Janice Damitio      Barry Berg         Toyota Celica GTS/PGT
             Montesano, WA       Apple Valley, MN       2:58:27
 
 10     27   Bill Malik          Roine Andresson    Volvo 240/Group 2
            Burbank, CA         Santa Clarita, CA      3:04:58
 
 11     39   Dave Peterson       Greg Chaloupka     VW GTI/Group 2
             Aspen, CO           Aspen, CO              3:07:19
 
    12     21  Chad Dykes          Pat Hanson       Toyota Pick-up/Group 2
               Escondido, CA       Escondido, CA          3:54:24
 
  13     26  Jason Priestley     Kevin Caffrey    Toyota Celica Alltrac/PGT
             Lake Hollywood, CA  Van Nuys, CA           3:55:01
 
Did_Not_Finish
 
         38  John Forespring     Chris Forespring   Saab 99
             Olympia, WA         Olympia, WA
 
          6  Peter Moodie        Michael Fennell  Mazda 323GTR/Open
             Kingston, Jamaica   Kingston, Jamaica
 
          5  Selcuk Karamanoglu Constantine Mantop.Eagle Talon/PGT
             Bath, ME           Staten Island, NY
 
          7  Goran Ostlund       Steve Baker       Saab 99/Group 2
             El Salvador         Snohomish, WA
 
         22  Rui Brasil          John Elkin        Audi Quattro/Open
             San Jose, CA        Lytle Creek, CA
 
        120  Chris Weleff        Brian Paul        Toyota Alltrac/Group A
             Riverside, CA       Anaheim, CA
 
         41  Dale Beard          Richard Simmons   Mazda 323GTX/PGT
             Elma, WA            Bonney Lake, WA
 
           57  Lucinda Strub       Matt Sweeney       Toyota Pick-up/Group 2
               Van Nuys, CA        Van Nuys, CA
 
           20  Steve Walker        David Lowe         Mazda 323GTX/Open
               Issaquah, WA        Bainbridge Island, WA
 
 
 
    CHOINIERE HANGS ON FOR THIRD MICHELIN PRO RALLY VICTORY AT WILD WEST
 
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- April 23 -- Defending SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally champion
Paul Choiniere, from Shelburne, Vermont, and co-driver Jeff Becker are used
to comfortable five minute wins in their 350 horsepower, all-wheel-drive
Hyundai Elantra racer, but had to hold on for a 30-second victory at the
Wild West PRO Rally here this weekend.
 
Choiniere, who had not won the Olympia since 1991 despite winning the
championship with relative ease over the past four years, has had his hands
full in 1995 with margins of victory in his three wins of only 39 seconds,
44 seconds, and now 30 seconds.
 
"We had a four-minute lead over the Mitsubishi Eclipse of Henry Joy/Chris
Griffin, and we almost let it get away," said Choiniere, whose car had a
cracked manifold, but still was still going fast late in the event.
 
Paul had a 49-second lead over Henry when Joy turned up the wick,
putting 24 seconds on Paul on the final racing stage and almost stealing
the win.  But Choiniere hung on for the win - his third of the season -
with Joy, from Atlanta, MI, finishing second.
 
The Carl Merrill/John Bellefleur Ford Escort Cosworth, from Ogunquit,
Maine, which lost five minutes early in the rally because of a flat tire,
was third overall.
 
Other class winners included the Sam Bryan/Rob Walden Saab 900, from Kent,
WA (Group 2 class); the Tad Ohtake/Bob Martin Ford Escort GT, from
Dearborn, Mich. (Production class), and the Janice Damitio/Barry Berg
Toyota Celica GTS, from Montesano, Wash. (Production GT class).
 
Actor Jason Priestley, from Lake Hollywood, Calif., finished 13th overall
and second in the Production GT class after his Toyota Celica All-trac went
off the road and into a ditch early on Saturday afternoon.  He lost more
than 28 minutes to the field - time which could have put him in the top
ten.
 
Only 26 of the original 50 starters finished the 350-mile event, which was
run on Simpson Timber Company roads south and west of Olympia.  Many of the
cars fell victim to the rocks and ditches of the forest roads, while the
high-speed competition brought mechanical woes to the others.
 
Significant DNFs (cars that Did Not Finish) included:
 
--Peter Moodie/Michael Fennell, Kingston, Jamaica, Mazda 323GTR,
  won the event here last month (broken transmission Friday night).
 
--Selcuk Karamanoglu/Constantine Mantopoulos, Bath Maine, Eagle Talon,
  was running fourth overall (into a ditch and bent a control arm).
 
--Rui Brasil/John Elkin, San Jose, Calif., Audi Quattro, was running third
  overall (flew off the road at 100 mph, rolled, and crashed).
 
Besides the overall battle between Choiniere and Joy, the best racing of
the day took place between Group 2 winner Sam Bryan and the VW GTI of Dave
White/Ben Greisler, from Benicia, Calif.  The pair were in a virtually tie
with three stages to go when White blasted into a 20-second lead on the
long  17-mile Cranberry Still stage.  But Bryan, who was running a stock
motor plucked from a junkyard Saab after blowing his race engine two weeks
ago in Ohio, picked himself off the floor to score a three-second win.
 
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 - different from World Rally, where practice is allowed.  The cars
start at one-minute intervals and race against the clock over 6 - 24
stages which range in length from four to 25 miles.  Most of the rallies
include night stages, making it necessary for competitors to adjust their
driving style.  Speeds of more than 120 miles-per-hour could be reached on
long straight-aways, with the team achieving the fastest combined times
winning the event.
 
The 1995 SCCA/Michelin PRO Rally Series 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 1995 Wild West
PRO Rally was presented by the Northwest Region of the Sports Car Club
of America.  The next event is the Rim of the World PRO Rally in Palmdale,
California, May 6 - 7, 1995.
 
 
                    1995 SCCA/MICHELIN PRO RALLY SERIES
                       (4/23/95 - after four events)
 
                                  OVERALL
 
         DRIVER             POINTS        CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         PAUL CHOINIERE      56.0         JEFF BECKER         56.0
         HENRY JOY           33.8         CHRIS GRIFFIN       33.8
         CARL MERRILL        33.0         JOHN BELLEFLEUR     33.0
         PETER MOODIE        28.0         MICHAEL FENNELL     28.0
         DOUG SHEPHERD       17.0         BEN GREISLER        17.8
         BRUNO KREIBICH      15.2         PETE GLADYSZ        17.0
         TOM OTTEY           15.0         ROD HENDRICKSEN     15.2
         SAM BRYAN           14.0         PAM MCGARVEY        15.0
         TAD OHTAKE          13.0         ROB WALDEN          14.0
         RUI BRASIL           9.2         BOB MARTIN          13.0
 
                                 OPEN
 
         DRIVER             POINTS        CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         PAUL CHOINIERE      56.0         JEFF BECKER         56.0
         HENRY JOY           35.0         CHRIS GRIFFIN       35.0
         CARL MERRILL        33.0         JOHN BELLEFLEUR     33.0
         PETER MOODIE        28.0         MICHAEL FENNELL     28.0
         DOUG SHEPHERD       17.0         PETE GLADYSZ        17.0
         BRUNO KREIBICH      15.2         ROD HENDRICKSEN     15.2
         TOM OTTEY           15.0         PAM MCGARVEY        15.0
         RALPH KOSMIDES      14.4         JOSEPH NOYES        14.4
         RICK BESON          10.0         BEN BRADLEY         10.0
         RUI BRASIL           9.2         JOHN ELKIN           9.2
 
                                   GROUP A
 
         DRIVER             POINTS        CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         CHRIS WELEFF         2.0         BRIAN PAUL           2.0
 
                                 PRODUCTION GT
 
         DRIVER             POINTS        CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         JANICE DAMITIO      31.0         BARRY BERG          31.0
         CAL LANDAU          22.0         ERIC MARCUS         22.0
         SELCUK KARAMANOGLU  19.0         CONSTANTINE MANTOP. 19.0
         JASON PRIESTLEY     17.0         KEVIN CAFFREY       17.0
         DAVID RALAKIS       14.0         JIM HURLEY          14.0
         DALE BEARD          14.0         RICHARD SIMMONS     14.0
 
                                  PRODUCTION
 
         DRIVER             POINTS        CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         TAD OHTAKE          46.0         BOB MARTIN          46.0
         JIM ANDERSON        26.0         BEN GREISLER        26.0
         BOB ELLIOTT         22.0         JOHN HART           22.0
         GREGORY TREPETIN    21.2         SONIA TREPETIN      21.2
         DICK CASEY          10.0         MARTIN DAPOT        10.0
 
                                  RALLY TRUCK
 
         DRIVER              POINTS       CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         GREG HEALEY         22.0         JOHN MACLEOD        22.0
 
                                    GROUP 2
 
         DRIVER             POINTS        CO-DRIVER           POINTS
 
         DAVE WHITE          26.0         ROB WALDEN          24.0
         SAM BRYAN           24.0         GEORGE THOMPSON     22.0
         KURT THIEL          22.0         ROINE ANDERSSON     18.8
         BILL MALIK          18.8         ANNETTE PROCHASKA   17.0
         WAYNE PROCHASKA     17.0         BEN GREISLER        17.0
         JOHN PIZZAGALLI     14.0         LANCE SMITH         14.0
         GERRY SWEET         12.0         STUART SPARK        12.0
         GERRY BRINKMAN      12.0         ROBERT BARRALL      12.0
         MIKE WHITMAN        12.0         KEVIN LINVILLE      12.0
         DAVE PETERSON       12.0         GREGORY CHALOUPKA   12.0
         CHAD DYKES          10.0         PAT HANSON          10.0
 

Divsional rally results are available; just e-mail a request and I'll
send them to you!

Cheers!

--
Ben Bradley                  *There are only two types of rally drivers:
bradley@reed.edu              Those who HAVE rolled and those who WILL
89 323 GTX, 85 Omni GLHt           *Will co-drive for food...
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