Headwaters result / news?

Okay, this is what I seemed to remember.
1)Paul Dunn/Pete Gossett EVO 4
2)Doug Havir/Scott Putnam Subaru WRX
3???)Todd Jarvey/Rich Faber Galant

Mark Utecht was leading , but lost a couple gears.... Dennis Martin was doing very well until he coasted to a stop at the end of SS3 and was towed back in by Jim Cox's S-10. The car was refired at service after Dennis found that he had a faulty check valve. The problem came back to haunt him later....David Cizmas was MOST impressive in his GTI in Group 2 and was posting times faster than Bob Nielsen before he had something come apart in the engine... Dave LaFavor had several offs in his Eclipse and was beat in PGT by Thanasi Samaras (Talon)whose car sounded rather sickly at the end...Doug Dill won Group 5 in the ex-Hurst Mazda RX-7... I think Jim Cox won Production after Eric Seppanen retired at around SS3... the guy in the Group 2 BMW318i was flying on SS1 but never heard about his demise... all in all a fun event even the the roads were horrendously slippy.... The guy with the video equipment that was hanging around with me was Gustavo Rosso who is originally from Argentina and has filmed rally events in his country in the past. He had a blast at his first U.S. event and hopes to be at Ojibwe in August doing some filming. The footage he shot from the rally was impressive! Hopefully, I'll get a copy of the final product after it is edited. Thanks to everyone who was there and put on a great event!
Jerry Winker

P.S. It's going to be a few days before my photos get posted. My basement is getting new drain tile on Tuesday and things will be in a state of disarray for a few days.
Thanks to all of the workers

We (Utecht /Secor #83 Subaru) broke the gearbox on ss5 w/ about 2 miles to go....(as Petter would say.."we did'nt hit ANYTHING").
(why do they always break on an uphill?.
box was dead...1/2 hour later (after it cooled, schrapnel settled) we had 3rd and 4th....drove it out (w/a very toasted clutch- after the last car - before sweep).
We drove the last stage all in 3rd (POR, my friends).
Stage conditions:
1. SLIPPY W/DEER
2. SLIPPY W/DEER
3. SLIPPY W/DEER
4. SLIPPY W/DEER
5. SLIPPY W/NO DEER (we let Dunn by on the transit- he was catching us big time on ss4)....ask him if there were any deer on ss5, 6 ...hehe.

Big thanks to all the workers for putting on another great event.
- jeff secor

Light rain began a few hours before the rally. It stopped an hour or two after everyone arrived back at the hotel. Lots of wet workers and spectators.

Lots of nice cars. 2 Lancer Evos, 2 nice WRXes. The average Club car is as clean and well maintained as the average Pro car from 5 years ago. 30 entries total, with half the field in seeds 5 & 6. A lot of passing on the stages, I'd guess mostly due to the road conditions, which tended to separate the crazy drivers from the sane ones.

The roads were very slippery in places, and quite decent in others. Tires were likely a big factor. Sounds like Michelin gravel tires worked poorly and Kumhos worked well.

9 months out of the drivers seat is a really long time. Took me most of stage 1 before I settled down and started nailing corners. This was my first time out on DMS suspension, and it rules. It doesn't feel rough at all, just soaks up the bumps so you can focus on driving. I'm very impressed.

I hope we get another shot at the crossroads at Ojibwe. The road approaching the jump was too slippery to get enough speed for big air.

I clocked in respectable times on SS1 & SS2, pulling out a good lead in Production and running well with a very skilled pack of G2 teams. Statements like that are usually followed by...

I ditched it on SS3, ran wide out of a left turn and then tried to keep my speed up and drive over the right bank on my way back onto the road. The bank first popped me up in the air, then caved away, directing me into a suprise ditch which swallowed up the car, and I ended up firmly leaning against a tree, passenger side a couple feet down in the ditch. Not too much damage; a little bit of body shop TLC and a new windshield and you'll never know the difference.

http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/headwaters/2002results.php
2002 HEADWATERS CLUB RALLY Stage Scores
Official Scores
The official scores as supplied by Dave Fuss are in pdf format.
Official scores: http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/headwaters/2002scores.pdf
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If you have a question about the scores please refer to the pdf.


For your convenience the official scores have also been translated from the pdf into html.
http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/headwaters/2002results.php

Our Headwaters story

Dennis and I had a good run together.

Unfortunately, just before the end of stage 3 the car coughed and acted like it was out of gas so we coasted across the finish line and in to the FTC. We moved the car out of the control zone by bumping the starter.

J.B. and Al tried to give us a tow, but the conditions were too muddy for their valiant little VW to pull us clear. We finally got a tow from the Coxes (thanks a bunch guys!) but by then we were 18 minutes late. The crew thinks it might have been a check valve problem.

We completed the 6th stage, then "ran out of gas" again a mile into the transit. Fortunately a green Jetta towed us back to the MTC where we just barely received our minute.

Playing the "what if" game: if we hadn't been 18 minutes late we might have finished fourth overall. If the car hadn't run out of gas *before* the finish line we might even have finished third.

The important part, however, is that we *finished* and we had fun.

Thanks to all for an enjoyable event.

I especially enjoyed the time chatting with the Utechts and Fritz (north from Minneapolis) and with JB and Heidi (south to Minneapolis). It's the people in our sport that keep me involved.

Rally on!

John

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