September 13, 2009 - I just found the raw times for the Prologue - it's a different timing setup than last year (well, last year I read the sheets posted up on the board, but still...).
Looks like Stillen was indeed fastest on the Flatrock stage by about 5 seconds. However, Jud Buchanan in his monster Acadian was only 12 seconds back, and Jud runs in class 4. Jud's finished 2nd a bunch of times, will this be his year?
Looks as if the Escort finished only 2 seconds behind last year's winners, the 2002 - but with that car in 4 MS Large and the Escort in 4 MS Small, that means the Escort is ahead.
Not that today's times mean anything other than to determine a starting order, of course, but until the times are posted for tomorrow all I can do is play with these.
The friendly and quick Marc Lachapelle had an accident on the first Prologue stage. He and his codriver are fine, but there's no word as to whether they will be able to start tomorrow. I expect there's a Subaru team working very hard tonight.
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