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The Susquehannock Trail Rally is known as one of the harshest races in the Rally America National Championship and this year proved no different. Many teams went in with high hopes but only half of the teams actually finished the race. Adam Yeoman and Jordan Schulze of FY Racing had some bad luck on Friday night when they missed a turn at the Super Special and even worse luck on Saturday when they rolled their car and had to withdraw from the event.

Yeoman recounts the crash; “After losing 2 minutes with a mistake at Friday Night’s Super Special, I knew we had to go out pushing to make up some time. On top of this, the weather was calling for rain later in the day so we had to push from the start. About 2.5 miles into the first stage of the day, Asaph, I was too hot into a right “4” after a long straight. I thought I was setup and was back on the power but the corner was slightly longer than I expected and we went wide into the bank at about 75mph. This sent us into an endo roll traveling about sixty feet before landing on the roof, spinning 180 degrees and then popping back up on the wheels pointing in the right direction down the road. This all happened so fast I didn’t realize we rolled and immediately restarted the car and tried to go. Unfortunately we suffered enough suspension damage that is was impossible to continue.”

This was the first major crash and the first DNF the team has endured but luckily both Adam and Jordan walked away unscathed. Despite the wreck, FY Racing will remain in an impressive 5th place overall in the National Championship (dependent on the result of the appeal to the protest between Hanson and Lagemann).

FY Racing is already hard at work repairing the damage on their 2002 Open-Class WRX and will be back to compete in the final leg of the Championship on July 15th & 16th at the New England Forest Rally.

APR Motorsport 1 -2 at Watkins Glen

“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” ~ Bobby Unser

Watkins Glen NY: The race was set to begin with APR Motorsport’s cars in completely unfamiliar territory, the rear of the field.  The Championship Leading car #171 VW DriverGear GTI MK6 suffered an engine related failure shortly before qualifying and was unable to post a time while the #161 Perfect Pedal VW GTI MK5 and the #181 VW DriverGear GTI MK6 both had their qualifying times disallowed due to a minor technical infraction.   This was very disappointing because the #181 GTI of Chris Gleason Jr. had qualified in pole position with a new track record and the #161 GTI of newcomer Nate Norenberg had qualified 3^rd in his first of many races for APR Motorsport. 

Undaunted by the challenge of having to pass the entire field, Chris Gleason Jr. in the #181 GTI, Ryan Ellis in the #171 GTI, and Nate Norenberg in the #161 GTI went about their business picking off competitors as quickly as possible.  Each of the opening drivers avoided contact while overtaking the field and insured that their driving partners would have a solid car ready to finish the race.  Before the first round of pit stops, the APR Motorsport cars overtook 55 competitors with Nate Norenberg actually leading a lap before his pitstop!  The APR pit crew was equally as motivated to win as were the drivers and turned in record-setting pit stop times.  The APR Motorsport cars were passed by no other team in pitlane and actually gained several positions during the extremely quick stops.      

APR Motorsport Director, Jeff Mishtawy, said “The drivers and the team all executed and got it done! Being relegated to the back after qualifying was tough to take as a team but it created an atmosphere of determination for everyone here.  We were simply not going to be denied today.”  

The finishing drivers, Ian Baas in the #171 GTI, Kevin Gleason in the #181 GTI, and Josh Hurley in the #161 GTI were now in place and continuing the charge to the front of the pack.  Unfortunately, the GRAND-AM championship leading #171 GTI of Ian Baas and Ryan Ellis suffered a broken left rear suspension and had to make multiple pit stops in an effort to repair the damage, eventually finishing in 31^st position and losing the championship lead.  “This one was hard to take,” said Ian Baas. He continued, “We had a great car but we have to get to the finish line.  We aren’t out of the championship yet, we must outperform everyone in the remaining 4 races to have a shot.”

The race would progress differently for Kevin Gleason and Josh Hurley.  With 20 minutes remaining they had driven all the way to 3^rd and 4^th places respectively and were closing the on the 2 leaders when a full-course caution was thrown for a crash and bunched the field back up.  On the restart, the ST leader was a victim of a “jump start” by the driver of the #30 Mazda in second place who then suffered a punctured tire ending his race and scattering debris all over the track bringing out yet another caution.  The GRAND-AM officials assessed a penalty to the #30 Mazda and handing the lead to the #181 GTI of Kevin Gleason.  On the final restart with 2 laps to go, Kevin and Josh Hurley held off the competition to complete a dream 1-2 finish after starting last on the grid, the first time this has ever been accomplished in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.

Kevin Gleason said, “What an amazing feeling to get my first Continental ST Win! APR executed perfect strategy and even better pit stops. I had a lot of fun with my stint charging through the field, the late cautions definitely made things a little tenser but it all worked out. Crossing the line leading an APR 1-2 is for sure the highlight of my career."  Josh Hurley reflected on the historic 1-2 finish with, “What an amazing team!  Kevin and I knew that we had a great finish lined up and there was no way we were going to risk it by fighting with each other. Nate handed over a great car; I just had to keep it going.”   

After the race, Chris Gleason Jr. said, “We were a little bit bummed out about it (the qualifying penalty), but we got the team together, we talked about it and we said, ‘We can still win this thing.’ And we believed it. We all executed our jobs and made it happen and here we are. We had a fast car and I felt good in the car. It was just actually ‘keep it safe’ but start picking off guys as soon as possible and that’s what I did. We executed our strategy and it just worked out. We got out there in good track position and Kevin was big time. He laid down the laps he needed to do it. Here we are in the winner’s circle. Go APR!”

The race will air on SpeedTV Sunday, June 12 at 5pm Eastern.

About APR: APR LLC is an automotive engineering firm operating a 36,000 sq. ft. performance campus in Opelika, AL. APR was founded in 1997 with a corporate philosophy of Integrity, Excellence and Innovation. APR’s Sole Mission is to provide the highest quality and most highly engineered aftermarket performance products available for Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen vehicles. Learn more at www.goapr.com.