Welcome To The Official Green Grand Prix Web Site

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

Watkins Glen High School wins the 2010 Green Grand Prix Video Contest sponsored by Best Buy of Big Flats, NY!

Footage taped by Nick Sorensen, Ryan Albro, Cam Fitch, Moritz Schrader, and Jacq Goehner and edited by Moritz Schrader and Jacq Goehner Students of Maggie Field Edgely's TV/Video Production Class.

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 is also held on the same day. (You may enter either the Rally or the Fuel Economy Competition as the timing of the events overlap)

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 Start of the 2010 Doris Bovee Memorial Road Rally.

The Start of the 2010 Chicago-Soft Green Grand Prix Fuel Economy Run presented by Racecars.com

An Electrathon racer at 2010 Green Grand Prix. Photo: Mike Kamm

The Watkins Glen International Camry Hybrid pace car and John Cadwallader's 1933 Ford-Propane.

C. M. Lewis and NYElectrathon team members.

The Newburgh Free Academy Solar Racing Team

Dr. Willie Yee tries out the Cornell Unversity Energy Bike.

2010 Results

Green Grand Prix Doris Bovee Memorial Road Rally

Overall
Place Points Driver/Navigator Car Make Class

1 54 Mark Gonya/ Chris Doeing 2010 Insight Hybrid

2 302 Zach and Melinda Fredenburg 2003 Mini Cooper Gas

3 308 Zoren Bullock/ Bill Overbaugh 2006 Mustang Alt fuel

4 346 Chuck Gladle/ Skip Tesut 2011 VW Beetle Gas

5 412 Rick Hughey/ Kevin Hughey Honda Civic GX Alt Fuel

6 419 Emily and Jim Fitzgibbons Dodge Stratus Gas

7 444 Ron Oehler/ Eric Ludewig Subaru Forrester Gas

8 453 Mike Eckert/ Ryan Lake 2009 Camry Hybrid

9 464 Brendan Carr/ Erin Hissong 2006 Subaru Sti Gas

10 490 J. Cadwallader/ J. Benjamin 1933 Ford pickup Alt Fuel

11 547 Marcia Kneeland/ Joy Pallischeck 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid

12 597 Kent Johnson/ Jim Fleishman 2005 Toyota Prius Hybrid

13 1157 Cliff Thomas/ Don Ferrario 2008 Ford F-150 Alt Fuel

Awards: 2010 Chicago-Soft Green Grand Prix
Presented by Racecars.com

78 miles circling perimeter of Seneca Lake

Class	Driver	Vehicle	MPG
1.	George Hoffman	1996 Plymouth Breeze	32.9 mpg
2.	Jason Ketcham	1998 Honda Civic	39.4 mpg
2M.	Will Meredith	1998 Honda Civic EX	76.0 mpg
3.	Bob Schiesser	2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid	41.0 mpg
3M.	Bruce Pick	1997 Honda Civic HX	52.9 mpg
4.	Clark Wierda	2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid	46.6 mpg
5.	Denise Liedmann	2006 Toyota Prius	57.4 mpg
9.	Gary Stottler	2009 Chevy Equinox FC	67.2 mpg
10.	Randy Tubbs	1999 VW New Beetle	66.2 mpg
10B.	Martin Deschenes	2000 VW Jetta TDi	73.2 mpg
11.	Ron Hansen	2001 Honda Insight	77.7 mpg
11M.	Matt Gates	2000 Honda Insight	87.6 mpg
12	C.M. Lewis	2000 Honda Insight (car with trailer)	50.7 mpg