2002 Cherokee Trails Rally - 2003 Hyundai Tiburon Rally

2002 Cherokee Trails Scca Pro Rally Wrx Cornering

2002 Cherokee Trails Results
Overall/Open
1	David Higgins/Calvin Cooledge	02 Subaru WRX	2:01:57
2	Janusz Kulig/Jaroslaw Baran (Gp N)	00 Mitsubishi EVO VI	+:01
3	Mark Lovell/Steve Turvey	02 Subaru WRX	+:39
4	Ramana Lagemann/Micheal Kidd	02 Subaru WRX	+3:36
5	Mark Higgins/Micheal Gibson	03 Hyundai Tiburon	+4:26

Group N
1	Janusz Kulig/Jaroslaw Baran	00Mitsubishi EVO VI	2:01:58
2	Patrick Richard/Anne Lewandowski	02 Subaru WRX	+12:45
3	Tim O'Neil/Martin Headland	02 Subaru WRX	+12:54

Production GT
1	Eoin McGeough/Jason Gillespie	90 Eagle Talon	2:17:59
2	Roland McIver/Ken Blain	Mitsubishi Eclipse	+16:13
3	Bob Henderson/John McArthur	Subaru WRX	+24:52

Group 5
1	Al Kaumehewa/Craig Sobczak	Neon SRT-4	2:30:55

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Group 2
1	Randy Bailey/Will Perry	88 Isuzu Impulse	2:20:34
2	Lachlin O'Sullivan/Matt Chester	02 Mitsubishi Lancer	+1:55
3	Eric Burmeister/Eric Adams	Mazda MP3	+5:57

Production
1	Jeff Field/Dave Weiman	02 Toyota Celica GTS	2:24:19
2	Jon Hamilton/Ken Sabo	02 Volkswagen Golf TDI	+3:51
3	Robert Olson/Conrad Ketelsen	Toyota Celica	+8:15

2002 Cherokee Trails Scca Pro Rally Tiburon

Hyundai Rally
In 1969, a young Army Lieutenant named John Buffum was the only American entered in the Monte Carlo Rally. He finished 12th and garnered headlines in "The New York Times." Buffum returned to the United States and eventually won 11 ProRally National Championships and his Libra Racing prepared the cars for Paul Choiniere's eight championships. Buffum also continued to enter World Championship events and, in 2000, had the opportunity to compete in a WRC event in each of the last five decades.

Buffum's latest projects are the two all-new 2003 Tiburons Hyundai Rally Team USA introduced at Cherokee Trails. Work began on the cars in December when the new bodies were delivered to Buffum's Libra Racing, but Buffum knew there wouldn't be enough time to build two cars and still ready the current cars for Sno*Drift, so he engaged his old friend Dom Buckley to build one of the Tiburons. Buffum immediately sent one of the two Tiburons to the Buckley Motorsport shop in Scotland and both crews got to work. A great deal of cross-Atlantic communication ensued.