If The Honda Fits…

This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit.

Huge fun this weekend at the Southern Ohio Forest Rally. I went to visit friends and one put me to work! I found myself hosting some events including the Special Stage at the end of the event on the Ross County Fairgrounds outside Chillicothe, Ohio, the state’s first capitol.

At one point I had the center section of the grandstands stand and BOO! another section that wasn’t participating with enough gusto. Great fun.

I’ve attached some pictures of the action.

For the record Art Gruska and co-driver Lukasz Wronski from Poland won the event over Tim Rooney and co-driver Ole Holter from the US.

I was fascinated, though, with James Robinson, a Honda engineer who’s won three B Spec championships in a Honda Fit. This weekend he had a completely stock, four-door Honda Civic for the competition. It was so stock it still had an operating air conditioner and tinted windows! He finished second in two wheel drive with co-driver Brian Penza.

An added note, Honda got its first Global Rallycross win Sunday after two years of trying. Maybe the rally shop should share some notes with the F1 guys.

Peace.