[KevinG5Hahn]

For those that are familiar with the Colorado Cog, a PGT car in years past has always been a threat for the OA podium but it hasn't happened, yet.

Anyone know the last time a PGT car took an OA podium at a National?

 

[PeterSteinberg]

Some quick searching finds the following:
[pre]
1999 Sno-Drift 1st OA Ottey / McGarvey

1997 Sno-Drift 2nd OA Gingras / Westrick
1996 STPR 2nd OA Karamanoglu / McArthur
1996 Wild West 2nd OA Karamanoglu / Bittner
1992 Goldrush 2nd OA O'Neil / Burgess
1991 STPR 2nd OA Vierimaa / Hakinen
1989 Sunriser 2nd OA Shepherd / Andreini

1997 Sno-Drift 3rd OA Landau / Marcus
1997 STPR 3rd OA Landau / Marcus
1996 LSPR 3rd OA Gingras / Westrick
1994 Ojibwe 3rd OA Karamanoglu / McArthur
1992 POR 3rd OA Gingras / Westrick
1991 Goldrush 3rd OA Grieb / Martin
1991 Rim 3rd OA Lawler / Bradley
1990 Goldrush 3rd OA Ottey / McGarvey
1989 Pacific Forest 3rd OA Shepherd / Andreini
[/pre]

 

[tifosi77]

Ramada Express 2003 Stephan Verdier was second just two minutes behind Rhys Millen.

 

[KevinG5Hahn]

>Ramada Express 2003 Stephan Verdier was second just two
>minutes behind Rhys Millen.



Thanks guys.

I would have gone through the results on my own but had to leave the wonderful world of persistent internet access as I posted...

 

[PeterSteinberg]

Also
[pre]2005 Défi Ste-Agathe 3rd OA Penasack / Goldfarb
[/pre]
and probably others in Canada, but I don't have those results redily available.

And probably Foust / Crouch, 3rd OA, 2006 Sno-Drift

 

[gplsek]

It would be scary to see Tanner in an Open class or GN car, with his mental aproach to driving and understanding of car control. I think Tanner is one of the few here that can run with Pat.

-george

 

[Timo]

Ramada 2001:
Lauchlin O'Sullivan / John Dillon in an Eclipse. 7.5 minutes behind D. Higgins.

(Positions 3, 4, and 5 were all PGT.)


http://whowon.com/Results.asp?TrackID=1841&StoryID=53030


Happy Motoring

 

[VWRX]

>For those that are familiar with the Colorado Cog, a PGT car
>in years past has always been a threat for the OA podium but
>it hasn't happened, yet.
>
>Anyone know the last time a PGT car took an OA podium at a
>National?

Tim Penasack at Defi last year!

- Isaac

 

[wvonkessler]

What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?


"Rallying is not easy at all sometimes. If you are not lucky, you are not lucky, and if you are lucky, you are lucky - everything works well. But today was, today was not so lucky."

Tommi Makkinen - 2001 RAC Rally

 

[Ben]

>Some quick searching finds the following:
>[pre]
>1999 Sno-Drift 1st OA Ottey / McGarvey
>
>1997 Sno-Drift 2nd OA Gingras / Westrick
>1996 STPR 2nd OA Karamanoglu / McArthur
>1996 Wild West 2nd OA Karamanoglu / Bittner
>1992 Goldrush 2nd OA O'Neil / Burgess
>1991 STPR 2nd OA Vierimaa / Hakinen
>1989 Sunriser 2nd OA Shepherd / Andreini
>
>1997 Sno-Drift 3rd OA Landau / Marcus
>1997 STPR 3rd OA Landau / Marcus
>1996 LSPR 3rd OA Gingras / Westrick
>1994 Ojibwe 3rd OA Karamanoglu / McArthur
>1992 POR 3rd OA Gingras / Westrick
>1991 Goldrush 3rd OA Grieb / Martin
>1991 Rim 3rd OA Lawler / Bradley
>1990 Goldrush 3rd OA Ottey / McGarvey
>1989 Pacific Forest 3rd OA Shepherd / Andreini
>[/pre]

Add to that the 1992 Capitol Forest Stages in Washington, where Tim O'Neil and Tom Burgess were first overall in a PGT Galant VR-4.

http://www.rallyracingnews.com/scca/rally/capfst92.html

Ben

 

[Pete Kuncis]

>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?

Choniere did it recently at STPR. 2004 me thinks.

 

[Widget Codriver]

>Ramada 2001:
>Lauchlin O'Sullivan / John Dillon in an Eclipse.

Ditto Ramada 2000.

Crew chief was Tom Laeng in both cases, but different cars.

 

[PeterSteinberg]

>>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?
>
>Choniere did it recently at STPR. 2004 me thinks.

Correct, 3rd OA at STPR 2004.

Also, Jon Nichols was 3rd OA at the 2005 Rocky Mountain Rally, and Frank Sprongl was 4th OA (12 seconds out of 3rd) at the 2005 Tall Pines Rally.

 

[Shenan]

>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?

Mike Whitman / Flynn Baglin - 2nd overall behind Lawler's factory Hyundai at the 1999 Prescott Forest ProRally in a G2 Datsun 510. I was there - that was some awesome driving. Unforgetable experience for the first rally I ever attended.

Carl Jardevall / Amity Trowbridge - 3rd overall behind the Hyundai factory cars at the 2000 Oregon Trail Prorally. Wish I had been there to see that too.

 

[RobBohn]

>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?

Just had to add: Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn, G2 Nissan, 3rd Overall, LSPR 1995

 

[comicozzie]

>>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?
>
>Mike Whitman / Flynn Baglin - 2nd overall behind Lawler's
>factory Hyundai at the 1999 Prescott Forest ProRally in a
>G2 Datsun 510. I was there - that was some awesome
>driving. Unforgetable experience for the first rally I ever
>attended.

Don't forget that Ralph Kosmides/Joe Noyes took 3rd at that event in their Gr. 5 Supra. As I recall, Bryan Hourt ran in second in his G2 Honda Civic for a good portion of that event before making a mistake and getting road points and being relegated to fifth. He was "blisteringly fast" on the narrow-treelined Mingus Mountain stage. That was also Pat Richard's debut on U.S. soil in a PGT 2.5 RS with Ben Bradley as his navvie!

Jerry

 

[comicozzie]

>>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?
>
>Just had to add: Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn, G2 Nissan, 3rd Overall,
>LSPR 1995

Steve Gingras/Bill Westrick were leading the rally OVERALL that year in their PGT Eclipse after the penultimate stage... then the tranny packed it up on the transit to the final stage. (BTW, I remember seeing JVL race that weekend in his SAAB 96, and he finished pretty well!)

Jerry

 

[John Vanlandingham]

>>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?
>
>Just had to add: Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn, G2 Nissan, 3rd Overall,
>LSPR 1995

Well that was a good drive but he was beat by SECOND Overall by Sam Bryan/ Rob Walden in the Scanwest Autosport Saab 900 16v which had a motor, transmission, lsd, suspension, and brakes supplied by the guy in the Saab in and out of 4th and 5th place overall: a 1969 Saab 96.
(Fighting with the pleasantest guy you'd want to fight with Jerry Sweet in another Saab, this time a 99)

So:
1st OA Henry Joy in an EvoBitchi
2nd OA Sam Bryan, Saab 900 16v
3rd Mike Hurst in Nissan with a FJ20.

 

[Bill W]

>>>What about Group 2/5 in a top 3?
>>
>>Just had to add: Mike Hurst/Rob Bohn, G2 Nissan, 3rd
>Overall,
>>LSPR 1995
>
>Steve Gingras/Bill Westrick were leading the rally OVERALL
>that year in their PGT Eclipse after the penultimate stage...
>then the tranny packed it up on the transit to the final
>stage. (BTW, I remember seeing JVL race that weekend in his
>SAAB 96, and he finished pretty well!)
>
>Jerry

That was the one rally that, to this day, we let slip through our fingers... Still hurts...

Bill Westrick
Just another old Navie from Michigan

 

[Baconmotorsport]

At The Pines this year we were 3rd overall until the penalty for the broken window. Frank was fourth and that brought him up to 3rd. He would have finished 3rd but there was some weird road penalty for him as well. Dont forget these were open dif. P2 cars not even G2.