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BOURNE AND CROCKER MAKE IT ONE TWO FOR SUBARU
Baie des Chaleurs
Canadian Rally Championship round 6
September 6-7, 2002
Vancouver rally driver Pat Richard raced to his third victory of the season at the Defi Ste-Agathe/Duhamel in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal on Saturday.
Driving a factory Subaru Impreza WRX, Richard finished 42 seconds ahead of Jon Nichols, of Lachine, Que., in a privately-entered WRX.
Richard's win extended his lead in the Subaru Canadian Rally Championship, presented by Yokohama. After six of nine rounds, he has a 23-point advantage, 85-62, over Sylvain Erickson. The 28-year-old from Vancouver is seeking his first overall Canadian title (although he won the production class in 2000).
Erickson, of Gatineau, Que., finished third in a Mitsubishi Lancer - a minute and 13 seconds behind Nichols - while Sylvain Vincent, of La Plaine, Que., was fourth in another Impreza WRX.
Richard, with Ian McCurdy as navigator, covered 156.81 kilometres of special stages - the competitive portions of the rally on gravel roads temporarily closed to the public - in one hour, 38 minutes, 11 seconds, for an average speed of 95.83 km/h.
Joel Levac, of Riviere-Beaudette, Que., surprised the usual frontrunners by setting the pace on Friday night's opening two stages in his production-class Impreza WRX.
On Saturday morning, Nichols and then Toronto's Peter Thomson, in another Impreza WRX, took turns in the lead. But Richard moved ahead just before the midday service stop and stayed there to the end.
Thomson and Levac eventually faded to fifth and sixth-place finishes, although Levac took the production class victory.
Peter Reilly, of Brampton, Ont., was eighth overall in a Ford Focus, but first in the Group 2 division for modified two-wheel-drive cars. Top honors in the smaller-engined production classes went to Steve Walkington, of Hudson, Que., in a VW Scirocco, and Sylvain Bazinet, of Lantier, Que., in a Suzuki Swift.
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2002 National Rally Results - September 6-7, 2002
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| 1 |
Patrick Richard / Ian McCurdy |
Subaru Impreza WRX |
N4 |
1:38:11 |
| 2 |
John Nichols / Dave Shindle |
Subaru Impreza WRX |
Open |
1:38:53 |
| 3 |
Sylvain Erickson / Philip Erickson |
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 4 |
N4 |
1:40:06 |
| 4 |
Sylvain Vincent / Dominique Cyr |
Subaru Impreza WRX |
Open |
1:40:33 |
| 5 |
Peter Thomson / Rod Hendricksen |
Subaru Impreza WRX |
N4 |
1:43:45 |
| 6 |
Joel Levac / Eric Bourbonnais |
Subaru Impreza WRX |
P4 |
1:46:02 |
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