OHPRG Announcements and Post Desert Storm Rally 2015

Organizers HP Rally Group, LLC Announcements

May, 2015

Introduction:

Organizers HP Rally Group Newsletter Update:

OHPRG will be accepting all recognized USA/Canada and European sanction body licenses. But there will be a administrative fee to help on the Participation & Accident for events for their staff and volunteers and their EMTS.

$25.00's for licensed holders drivers and co-drivers.

$50.00 for non licensed holder drivers and co-drivers.

This fee is good for a calendar year only.

You will be able to charge your fees when you register online to the competitor entry form. Or you have the option to pay at the event.

THE TIME HAS COME:

OHPRG is glad to announce that the website will open publicly the last week of May!

There will be all kinds of feature articles for individual events as well as a featured team on there every few weeks. Plus features of the winning team from each OHPRG event.

Team Bios and website links to their sites to help give them more exposure. We be asking all registered competitors to give us pictures, etc.

Plus the updates to OHPRG 2015 Scoring Results.

So far in the OHPRG Invitational Challenge Championship we have $3000.00 for contingency and more is coming....

OHPRG Championship Guidelines (click on to download)

Bilstein Cup Championship (click on to download)
Scrubblade 2/4WD Chamoionship (click on to download)

Championship event has not been announced but it will be either in February or March 2016 which will include the National2WD and National4WD teams that have been registered under those classes as well as the other classes. Overall teams in the championship will have the first invites to the championship. More info is coming on this exciting Championship but if you want to see the guidelines they will be uploaded on the brand new site.

As this year progresses we have more exciting news to bring to you!

We like to thank ABIVIA for the website they are producing for us. They are 100 percent a sponsor for OHPRG. We are proud to have them on board! Check out their website at http://www.abivia.com/

Alan Langford and Alison Meeks have been a pleasure to work with and I look forward to many more years of working with them. DO consult with the best for website development, business/marketing consulting and information technology services. What is best about them! They love rallying! So check out their site and send them some business their way. They will work with you!

Our Feature Headlines This Month:
Desert Storm Rally Post Report:

Winners Circle at Desert Storm Rally 2015

Tingwu Song/Yufeng Hao from China where he has participated in the Chinese Rally Series with the Bailing Rally Team as the #3 driver in a Mitsubishi Lancer won the overall at Desert Storm Rally event #1. He was so ecstatic about winning the event and he was up against some really good stiff competition. Jeff Rados/Warren Kouba was not far behind him with John Black/Lori Stone and Ziad Karanouh from Lebanon with a national co-driver Karen Jankowski. Chris Palmero/Darrin Prescott was going all out and could have easily won Event #1.

This year all events in the Bilstein Southwest RallyCup Series presented by Scrubblades has a new twist. There was at Desert Storm Rally a Power Stage (coefficient 1) that not only did they get a points but one stage to see who can won overall that stage similar as in WRC. Well Jeff Rados/Warren Kouba in their Ford Ranger went all out knowing their truck was having problems and won overall that stage in 7 minutes and 25 seconds over Tingwu Song/Yufeng Hao that only have a 51 second difference and took second place. Ziad Karanouh/Karen Jankowski took third place with only a 24 second difference from second place team. John Black and Lori Stone were only 6 seconds from overtaking Ziad and Chris Palermo/Darrin Prescott just a minute from John Black.

So in conclusion the Power Stage was exciting to watch with all the teams having fun trying to win that stage.

Unfortunately, Brent Lee Motorsports had a ECU problem before the start of the competition. But they are waiting to come back at Mendocino Rally and Rally Utah to get back in the scoring of points in the SWRC and OHPRG series. Along with Johan Bjorkquist/Nick Roder had a electrical problem on stage of Event 1. But were able to get back out to the Power Stage and halfway DNF on the stage. Marcus and Alicia Saarinen had their old suspension in and their new one was not in time for the event. Such great supporters of Desert Storm and the series. They made sure the team was there and gave it a try to finish.

Also all teams competed for the Storm Attack competition; they gave up their winnings to donate to the Wounded Warrior Project. So far we have close to $600.00 in donations to give at the end of the rally season. Plus Tingwu Song donated $100.00's toward the charity.

Everyone that came whether they were volunteers or competitors...fully supported the event and in the end had a great time on the stages as well as at the rally party. All left having a great experience.

Bilstein Cup Championship:

Jeff Rados/Warren Kouba are in 1st Place

Ziad Karanouh/Karen Jankowski in 2nd Place

Johan Bjorquist/Nick Roder in 3rd Place

Brent Lee/John Dillon in 4th Place

Scrubblade Wipers 2WD Championship:

Jeff Rados/Warren Kouba are in 1st Place

Marcus Saarinen/Alicia Saarinen are in 2nd Place

Brent Lee/John Dillon are in 3rd Place

Scrubblade Wipers 4WD Championship:

Johan Bjorkquist/Nick Roder are in 1st Place

Rally Open Championship:

Tingwu Song/Yufeng Hao are in 1st Place

Ziad Karanouh/Karen jankowski are in 2nd Place

Rally Production Championship:

John Black/Lori Stone are in 1st Place

Chris Palermo/Darrin Prescott in 2nd Place

Racetech USA SWRC Overall Championship:

Tingwu Song/Yufeng Hao - 1st Place

Jeff Rados/Warren Kouba - 2nd Place

John Black/Lori Stone - 3rd Place

Ziad Karanouh/Karen Jankowski - 4th Place

Chris Palmero/Darrin Prescott - 5th Place

Johan Bjorkquist/Nick Roder - 6th Place

Markus/Alicia Saarinen - 7th Place

Brent Lee/John Dillon - 8th Place

DNF teams get points.

Mendocino Rally and Rally Utah Articles:
The OHPRG Scoring Results so far are the same as the SWRC series scoring points. That will change with Mendocino Rally that happens July 18/19, 2015 in upper California. As soon as the staff from the Mendocino Rally send information; we will send out a article about the event coming up in July.

In August is Rally Utah - August 7/8 in Cedar City, Utah. We hope to see you all there as well. It will be the premiere event of the brand new rally. This will help out the Colorado teams to have a closer event toward their area. As well as for all SW teams and we would want the PNW teams to be there as well. Cedar City is working hard to make this event a mainstay on their calendar in the future years. We are working on live streaming at this event and media to cover the whole event with pictures and videos.

So another newsletter will be coming out in 2 weeks solely on promoting these two events. Also about series and event sponsors.

This year the SWRC series we have a brand new presenting sponsor Scrubblade. We are so excited working with them! Billy the President of the company and his office manager Jackie are such a pleasure working with them. They are going to fully support rallying presently and year(s) to come...so lets welcome them aboard.

They are a window wipers product company. They have done off-road in the past but see that rally cars would be a good choice since this type of sport has production based cars with windows. So a lucky few will be getting Scrubblade wipers as a product to use on their cars and tell us a testimonial of how well they perform. I can say mine have been on for over 2 years and still strong. Here in California the heat can take a toll on wiper's rubber. This has not been the case with Scrubblade wipers. There will be some teams to be ask to put these wipers on their cars and get us some information back as to how well these wipers are performing and their testimonial will go on the Scrubblade website. www.scrubblade.com.

Scrubblade is the only wiper blade designed to cut through water, bugs and road grime. It does this using an innovative 2-part cleaning system. With two blades, your windshield gets twice the cleaning power. Pushing water and clearing streaks away. The true innovation comes with tiny triangular scrubbers designed to cut through debris and clear dirt, bugs, and road grime out of view, for a cleaner, particle-free windshield. Scrubblade's wipe out the competition!

Don't forget they are the title Championship sponsor for the 2WD and 4WD Championship of the SWRC. So go out and purchase these wipers. You will not be discouraged by the quality.

Update: There will be discount coupons to buy Scrubblade Wipers for each of these events on the SWRC calendar. Next article will explain how to purchase. !!!