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Boyne City, Michigan September 13, 1999

Rally Team of Kleckner and Sands Leads Audi Turbo Quattro!

Although handicapped by exhaust problems and giving up over 200 hp the rally worker team of Oran Sands and Mark "Skip" Kleckner managed to stay ahead of Jim Warren's Audi Quattro for much of the morning during the second day of POR.

The Quattro was being used for Car 0 and for the second time in two days came to a grinding halt with a dead motor at the morning control run by Sands and Kleckner. Although a push start got them underway on Friday the Audi absolutely refused to start Saturday after dying just as it passed the in-line of the checkpoint. Sidelined for over a half an hour while the POR rally teams entered and left the control Warren plugged and unplugged virtually every connector he could find. Finally a hose that had come adrift from the turbo was pronounced the cause of his troubles and once connected the Turbo lit off first try! Unfortunately they had no idea where they were, where they were going or how to get there! After a long discussion it was decided that they would follow the VW GTI of Sands/Kleckner to their next checkpoint and pick up the route at that point. Communications were maintained by Cobra FRS radios ($59/pair) and they caravaned across Michigan until they arrived at control 15.

Sands expressed his amazement at the happenings. "I always wanted to be able to try and stay ahead of a rally-prepped Quattro" he exclaimed. "I just never dreamed I'd get my chance at POR of all places!" Kleckner echoed the sentiment stating " I couildn't believe we were so far ahead of them! We actually slowed down at times to let them catch up!"

The team of Warren of and Scott were unavailable for comment but it's generally believed they were still experiencing engine problems that were later fixed at the lunch break.

.............0ran...........
"Truly, a legend in his own mind"
.........0ran..............