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Old 2010-03-22, 01:58 PM   #6
Nick Koan
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Originally Posted by Kevin M View Post
What class was he actually in? I scanned the article but didn't catch that.
After looking into it a bit further, he wasn't in a WRC class, he was actually running in a separate national level rally that was run concurrently on the same stages at the same time. This happens all the time when a rally is sanctioned for multiple championships, in this case, WRC, JWRC, WRC Cup and Rally América -- not to be confused with the US based Rally America.

So, he basically took third in the slowest possible level. But hell, I'd still take it. He beat customer Evo 9's and Peugeot 206s (which were likely ex-WRC cars from 10 years ago).

I found this thread on Special Stage forums from the co-driver.

http://www.specialstage.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=40018

Best part at the end...

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Bill got trashed inside with other drivers, doing shots with Petter and Henning Solberg;
Results:

http://www.rallymexico.com/contentEs...ally%20America
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