Block wins Ojibwe in dominant fashion – DirtFish

“We were being completely transparent with Klim, every stage we were like, ‘hey this is what we’re doing, this is what you should do if you want to beat us,’ and he was doing it!”

Unfortunately for Fedoff, that off would be the end of his rally, and would open up the second step on the LN4 podium to the Honda Passport of Chris Sladek and John Sharps, who also took eighth overall.

Fourth and fifth overall went to first and second in 2WD, Seamus Burke and Martin Brady keeping the lead over Michael Hooper and Claudia Barbera.

“We always have a good battle,” Martin Brady said at the podium. “Mike always keeps us honest. We know he’s never too far behind us.”

The two teams traded off having minor problems across the weekend, but after a few close calls Hooper backed down and preserved the car, managing the gap well for the rest of the day.

Lucy Block with DirtFish’s Michelle Miller in the co-driver seat were able to pull off a sixth place overall in their Fiesta Rally3, and Spencer Sherman and Boyd Smith took seventh behind them.

As previously mentioned Sladek took eighth, and the father and son duo of Nathan and Eliot Odle took ninth, as the final finishers outside of super rally.

Outside of those, the 10th spot went to Pat Gruszka, who was in super rally after a fire on SS2 Friday.

The Regional Rally win was taken by the fan favorite Toyota Rav4 AP4 car driven by Alejandro Perusina, and co-driven by Andres Bautista.

Thought the pair are still learning the car in their fourth rally in it, they impressed by putting in times that would have landed them in the top three nationally on some stages had they been entered there.

“It was our first race out here at Ojibwe, so we were not really sure what to expect,” Perusina said.

“The roads were fast, wet, sandy, different than anything we’ve ridden on before, but the weekend honestly was really stressful. We had some issues at the start of the race limped through the first half of the day, and we were just struggling g with ourselves, some stuff with the car, but today was fun!

“We’re here, we finished, the car is all straight, we’re happy, but it was definitely a hard, long stressful weekend.”

Second to Perusina was the BMW M3 of Ryan George about 15 minutes behind. George was the fastest 2WD car by over five minutes, and was followed to the podium by Jordan Harberer and Drew Staples.

The Ojibwe Forests Rally’s conclusion means there’s only two more chances for teams to get National points on the board, with Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally in about a month, and Lake Superior Performance Rally closing the season in October.