Stage 4 of the Group B rally series was run in the dark in a counter clockwise direction. It’s obvious by looking at the times that this was one of the harder stages of the series. The stages started late due to a race monitor issue and there was maybe a little more drinking in parc ferme than usual and that probably had an affect on the times as well. Ary was once again the fast car for the Group A and Mark was 7 seconds faster than anyone else in Group B so both added to their already strong leads in the series. Shawn was only 4 seconds behind Ary but could not get his Lancia to go any faster.
Race results for Group B race #4
Overall Results after Stage 4
The overall results had Ary not only leading Group A but increasing his lead over everyone else. Shawn had a nice 6 second lead over Marty and then the gap grew to almost two minutes to the fourth place racer. Ary is expected to miss the next stage so it will be interesting to see if Shawn or Marty are able to put any time on him.
The overall results in Group B were very interesting with Mark continuing to lead the group with Alejandro 53 seconds behind. A gap that is too great to bridge unless Mark were to miss any of the next two rounds. John was less than one second behind Alejandro, simply amazing. Randy is only 39 seconds behind John and with two stages left in the series it looks like almost anyone could end up on the second and third steps of the podium. Maybe even Rich!
