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A. Pinker Won His Second Championship This Year!
Pinker covered up for T. Foust's absence and won top ranking!
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Fifth round of RANC 2007(Rally America National Championship) called "Sasquehannock Trail Performance Rally (STPR)" was held on June 2nd near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. This has been a classic event with 31 years of history. The stages were smooth gravel roads, which meant "high-speed". Like TEIN USA's engineer Nakai said, the race goes 100km/h at average and over 180km/h at max. The hills and trees surrounding the stages made an accurate control indispensable to survive. In such dangerous circumstances, TEIN supported crews had shown an outstanding performances.
T. Foust (#34, SUBARU IMPREZA GDB-F) from Syms Racing team skipped this rally to enter another drifting competition held that day. On the other hand, A. Pinker constantly scored excellent times and won another championship this season. |
Comments from TEIN engineer (TEIN USA/Mr. Katsuma Nakai)
"STPR is literally a high-speed race, mainly focusing on 4th and 5th shifts. Therefore, we lowered the ride height more than the standard, and hardened the setting of stabilizer for an easier control in corners. For night stages, we focused more on handling under unclear views, and softened the stabilizer. This turned out very well, too.
This was our first year to support a team in RANC, and we now have a rough idea for the setting in gravel condition. Taking the crews' comments and field data into account, we would like to continue providing support for them in this rally.
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| Pos. |
No. |
Driver |
Machine |
Time |
Diff |
Remarks |
| 1 |
199 |
Andrew Pinker/Robbie Durant |
SUBARU IMPREZA
GDB-F |
1:14:52.8 |
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TEIN Gr.N Damper |
| 2 |
74 |
Ramana Lagemann/Mark Williams |
MISTUBISHI LANCER
EvoIX CT9A |
1:15:12.0 |
+19.2 |
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| 3 |
199 |
Travis Pastrana/Bjorn Edstrom |
SUBARU IMPREZA
GDB-F |
1:17:07.8 |
+2'15.0 |
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