Calling Hybrid & Alternative Fueled Vehicles For Green Grand Prix In Watkins Glen 


Welcome to the official Green Grand Prix Web Site:
The Green Grand Prix is an educational and competitive event in Watkins Glen, NY including the only Official SCCA Time-Speed-Distance Road Rally for Hybrid and Alternate Fuel Vehicles in North America.  Our Road Rally is sponsored by THE DORIS BOVEE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION. Doris Bovee was an environmental enthusiast and our road rally is a tribute to her.

For those primarily interested in a high MPG competition, The Chicago-Soft Green Grand Prix Fuel EconomyCompetition presented by Race-Cars.com will also be held on May 8th. (You may enter either the Rally or the Fuel Economy Competition as the timing of the events overlap)

ENTRIES ARE STILL BEING ACCEPTED FOR BOTH OF OUR COMPETITIVE EVENTS

DORIS BOVEE MEMORIAL ROAD RALLY:

- Full SCCA Time-Speed-Distance road rally
- Alternate fuel as well as gasoline and diesel vehicles encouraged
- Starts at 10:30 A.M. from IMRRC at 610 S. Decatur St., Watkins Glen
- $50 entry fee includes insurance, 2 lunches, and 2 commemorative T-Shirts


CHICAGO-SOFT GREEN GRAND PRIX FUEL ECONOMY COMPETITION presented by RACE-CARS.COM

- All vehicles invited
- 10 classes of prizes based on EPA mpg ratings
- Starts at 9:20 A.M. from the Glen Motor Inn, 1 mile North of Watkins Glen on Rte. 14
- Circles Seneca Lake on major roads with a mandatory 10 minute stop at the - Geneva Chamber of Commerce.
- $50 entry fee includes insurance cost , 2 lunches and 2 commemorative T-Shirts


 

The X-Prize car from Cornell

The X-Prize car from Cornell starting the rally

Make way

Make way for my generation!

A study in contrasts

A study in contrasts: Carl and RT Larson's 1914 Woods Electric and Marcelo daLuz's "Xof1" solar electric racer.

Baldwinsville's Baker HS Electrathon Team

Baldwinsville's Baker HS Electrathon Team

biodiesel Harley

Bill and Kathy Bolch with the biodiesel Harley...and pit crew


2009 Results

DORIS BOVEE MEMORIAL ROAD RALLY
Rally Points and Overall Finish
Overall
Place
Alt Fuel Place Hybrid Place Car No Points Driver/Navigator Car Make Class
1 1   1 173 Gary Stottler/Rich Stewart Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell - Alt Fuel
2     9 262 Rick Leto/Marilyn Leto 2006 Ford Mustang Gas
3   1 15 294 Michael Eckert/Michael Evranian 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid
4 2   13 344 John Cadwallader/Julius Carozza 1933 Ford Pickup Propane - Alt Fuel
5   2 4 402 Mark Gonya/Frank Beyer 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid
6 3   10 405 Paul Marcellus/Rick Hughey 2007 Honda GX CNG - Alt Fuel
7   6 415 David Masten/Shawn Clapham 2008 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid
8 4   5 423 Derek Kilmer/Andrew Degner Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell - Alt Fuel
9     3 446 Zachary Fredenburg/Melinda Fredenburg 2003 Mini Cooper Gas
10   4 7 561 Richard Gillespie/Joshua Gillespie 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid
11     8 1000 Chuck Gladle/Skip Tesut 1964 VW Beetle Gas
12 5   12 1105 Don Ferrario/ Eric Massa 2008 Ford F-150 Propane - Alt Fuel
13     11 1163 Cheryl Ragalevsky/Kathy Hodge 2007 Subaru Outback Gas
14 6   2 1221 Aaron Halstead/Ken Sherman 2001 Ram 2500 BioDiesel- Alt Fuel
15 7   14 1484 Lester Sowell/Robin Ferrario 2007 Ford F150 Propane - Alt Fuel


2009 Chicago Soft Fuel Economy Competition presented by Race-Cars.com
 

Class Driver Vehicle MPG
1. M. Argetsinger 2004 Audi A4 33.2 mpg
2. S. Kasaba 2004 Mini-Cooper 41.5 mpg
2. mod B. Jones 1991 Honda Civic spl. 88.2 mpg
3. T. Sullivan 1993 Toyota Tercel 53.1 mpg
4. T. Telehany  2008 Honda Civic Hybrid 67.8 mpg
5. W. Edwards 2004 Toyota Prius unlisted
5.
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A. Brenner 2008 Prius Plug-In 79. mpg
6. Bruce Parker 2007 Vespa 250 cc 86.6 mpg
7. B. Bucholz 2009 DIRIGO spl. 89.5 mpg
10. D. Cosgrove  1998 Pontiac Firefly spl. 99.7 mpg

NEWS RELEASE -

1910 Woods 
1914 Woods Electric Dual Tiller Brougham

Why we do it
Why we run the Green Grand Prix 

Other Sites of Interest

hybrid fest
http://www.hybridfest.com



Electrathon Racers at the GGP
to learn more Click Here


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