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Running in the limited class, Greg Lester and Ken Swarm won the second event on the CenDiv Divisional schedule, the Moonlight Monte held Saturday evening, February 22, 1997. Gene Henderson and Jeff Boris were the equipped class winners, with Bryan and Caprica Murphy taking Stock and Colin Botha/Bryan Pickett winning the novice class.
This years version of the Moonlight Monte was 140 miles long with 22 scheduled open controls. Warm weather and rain in the week before the event resulted in very rough roads and caused extensive flooding in the area. On Friday night the weather changed dramatically, and freezing rain and a couple of inches of snow covered the course at the start, making for rough and slippery going for the competitors. Flooded roads in the second half of the rally required three re-routes and cost 2 legs.
Two additional legs were discarded. One was because too many competitors did not do a mileage turn just before a control, causing the overiding rule to be invoked. The other, because of an error on the leg slip.
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Moonlight Monte Competitors and workers,
The entire committee for Moonlight Monte would like to thank you for participating in our rally. We sincerely hope that you enjoyed it and will return next year to do it again. In addition, we hope that if you enjoyed it, you will tell your friends and have them come too. It was great to have entrants from five states. Also nice was having a large group of novices. Lets all encourage more people to try our hobby and share the fun.
We plan to hold the 1998 event on February 21. We plan to continue in the same area with the same general format. Hopefully, we won't have the flooding and rough roads next year, just lots of good, plowed snow.
I would like your feedback on the event. What did you like and what could we improve? How did you like the length and number of controls? Give me a call at 810-739-6565 between 7:00 and 9:00 evenings, or drop me a note. My Email address is jimmickle@juno.com.
We dropped leg 13 and 19 because of the re-routes caused by the flooding. Leg 5 was dropped due to the critique slip missing the required three speeds. Leg 8, which had a mileage turn just in front of a control was dropped because too many E and L competitors drove straight into the control rather than taking the correct route, and making the turn.
Thanks again for coming. I hope you enjoyed the event and can make it again next year.
I especially want to thank the many friends that worked to make the event happen. My special thanks to all the Amateur Radio Operators who provided communications and ran controls during the event. In addition to making it possible to have 22 controls, it also made it possible to do the re-routes around the floods. In addition, it made my job much less nerve racking as I always knew what was happening and that the controls were in place properly, and in good time.
Yours Truly,
Jim Mickle,
Chairman, Moonlight Monte
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| Driver Navigator | City, State | Vehicle | Region | Class | Score | O/A | Cls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Lester Ken Swarm | Akron, OH Berea, OH | 88 Toyota Wagon | NEOhio NEOhio | L | 40 | 1 | 1 |
| Gene Henderson Jeff Boris | Pinckney, MI Grand Rapids, MI | Subaru Outback | Detroit WMR | E | 49 | 2 | 1 |
| Jim Fekete Jim Shaffer | Canton, MI Franklin Village, MI | 97 Chev Blazer | Detroit Detroit | L | 51 | 3 | 2 |
| Art Welch Terry Palmer | Albion, MI Somerset Ctr, MI | 88 Toyota All-Trac | Detroit Detroit | L | 81 | 4 | 3 |
| Mark Henderson John Puffenberger | Dearborn, MI Bloomdale, OH | 91 Subaru Legacy Turbo | Detroit Detroit | E | 96 | 5 | 2 |
| John Hinkle Thomas Benham | Marshallville, OH Cleveland, OH | 92 Honda Civic | NEO NEO | L | 139 | 6 | 4 |
| Bryan Murphy Cappy Murphy | Waterford, MI Waterford, MI | 94 Chevy Pick-up | Detroit Detroit | S | 344 | 7 | 1 |
| Scott Radabaugh Marlena Baerkircher | Milford, MI Perrysburg, OH | 95 Ford Escort | Detroit Detroit | L | 364 | 8 | 5 |
| Jeff Wernberg Brian Mahnken | Rochester MI Pinckney, MI | 87 VW GTI | Detroit Detroit | S | 368 | 9 | 2 |
| Bob Martin Les Talcott | Goodrich, MI Rochester, MI | 1990 Jeep Cherokee | Detroit Guest | E | 400 | 10 | 3 |
| Herb Spencer Mark Hainen | Portage, OH Lambertville, MI | 88 BMW 325IX | Guest Guest | L | 427 | 11 | 6 |
| Richard Worden Doug Pratt | Sterling Hts, MI Memphis, MI | 96 Saab 900SE | Detroit Guest | S | 488 | 12 | 3 |
| Colin Botha Brian Pickett | Flint, MI Bridgewater, MA | 87 Acura Integra | Guest Guest | N | 647 | 13 | 1 |
| Brian Scott Jill Butler | Flint, MI Pinconing, MI | 91 Ford Ranger | Detroit Guest | S | 666 | 14 | 4 |
| W. David Watts Kim Vrankovich | Flint, MI Masury, OH | 86 Jeep Cherokee | Guest Guest | S | 816 | 15 | 5 |
| Steve Kress Kevin Schwartz | Romeo, MI Romeo, MI | 96 Chevy Cavalier | Guest Guest | N | 834 | 16 | 2 |
| Paul Noble Michelle Menosky | Britton, MI Montrose, MI | 97 Toyota Corolla | Guest Guest | N | 1015 | 17 | 3 |
| Aaron Tiedje Angie Webber | Shelby Twp., MI Burton, MI | 92 Pontiac Grand Am | Guest Guest | N | 1148 | 18 | 4 |
| Randy Gerding Carol Golanski | Ottawa, IL Washington, MI | 1991 Chev S-10 | Guest Guest | N | 1208 | 19 | 5 |
| Mark Kleckner Jeff Hribar | Akron, OH Romeo, MI | 95 Ford T-Bird | Guest Guest | N | 1264 | 20 | 6 |
| Jamie Quaderer Steve Baumbach | Chesaning, MI Baldwinsville, NY | 97 Chev Cavalier | Guest Guest | N | 1550 | 21 | 7 |
| Brian Bennett Jon DePentu | Plymouth, MI Canton, MI | 86 Shelby GLHS | Detroit Detroit | S | 3400 | 22 | 6 |
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CAR TEAM CLS LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG LEG TOTAL CAR CLS
# DRIVER/NAVIGATOR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 SCORE #
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13 Lester/Swarm L 1 2 5 0 0 0 15 0 3 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 2 1 2 40 13 L 6 G Henderson/Boris E 1 0 1 1 0 0 29 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 1 2 1 49 6 E 2 Fekete/Shaffer L 1 7 1 0 3 0 9 0 1 0 1 2 0 7 4 1 0 5 3 1 1 4 51 2 L 3 Welch/Palmer L 0 1 3 1 18 0 12 0 3 3 2 1 0 21 1 1 0 0 1 4 5 4 81 3 L 8 M Henderson/Puffenberger E 0 32 1 6 0 0 12 0 1 1 3 1 0 30 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 1 96 8 E 5 Hinkle/Benham L 2 3 17 3 64 0 4 0 5 3 2 5 0 3 10 1 0 4 3 1 2 7 139 5 L 10 Murphy/Murphy S 4 113 14 60 4 0 15 0 21 7 7 10 0 9 22 2 0 3 11 7 10 25 344 10 S 14 Radabaugh/Baerkircher L 2 23 3 144 15 0 12 0 7 6 12 1 0 23 3 2 0 9 1 0 96 5 364 14 L 23 Wernberg/Mahnken S 7 2 19 4 33 0 33 0 27 13 25 8 0 18 138 5 0 3 7 13 0 13 368 23 S 9 Martin/Talcott E 13 33 35 18 104 0 10 0 159 17 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 400 9 E 4 Spencer/Hainen L 3 14 13 13 20 0 27 0 119 6 1 51 0 109 9 5 0 19 2 7 9 0 427 4 L 11 Worden/Pratt S 3 20 8 5 15 0 35 0 200 23 19 8 0 35 81 7 0 0 6 12 8 3 488 11 S 7 Botha/Pickett N 7 25 4 11 12 0 200 0 160 4 19 106 0 12 17 14 0 27 1 5 11 12 647 7 N 19 Scott/Butler S 3 0 42 15 200 0 22 0 33 0 1 21 0 200 29 9 0 55 1 24 6 5 666 19 S 20 Watts/Vrankovich S 0 52 99 40 200 0 67 0 186 8 35 20 0 8 15 5 0 19 29 6 14 13 816 20 S 16 Kress/Schwartz N 9 53 44 36 77 0 41 0 200 1 37 35 0 93 92 11 0 0 37 32 3 33 834 16 N 22 Noble/Menosky N 6 29 32 65 11 0 22 0 138 3 4 30 0 9 200 200 0 200 15 13 4 34 1015 22 N 12 Tiedje/Webber N 173 68 200 41 94 0 60 0 79 26 29 17 0 40 69 21 0 105 58 43 10 15 1148 12 N 17 Gerding/Golanski N 79 8 97 99 200 0 102 0 200 22 3 18 0 9 200 14 0 24 27 14 2 90 1208 17 N 15 Kleckner/Hribar N 12 44 48 16 106 0 79 0 200 78 58 88 0 138 37 9 0 82 63 63 93 50 1264 15 N 21 Quandere/Baumbach N 3 29 28 26 79 0 9 0 200 15 8 200 0 91 200 125 0 52 200 200 20 65 1550 21 N 18 Bennett/Depentu O 200 200 200 200 200 0 200 0 200 158 73 200 0 200 200 169 0 200 200 200 200 200 3400 18 O 1 DNS 200 200 200 200 200 0 200 0 200 158 73 200 0 200 200 169 0 200 200 200 200 200 3400 1 DNS
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