Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 9:36pm

How competing helps organizers improve their rallies

t’s the ultimate market research, with a shot at winning the Headwaters Regional Rally for a seventh time all rolled into one. That’s why Steve Gingras was behind the wheel of his NA4WD Subaru Impreza in Walker, Minnesota recently.

A rally driver of some repute, it’s Gingras’ work as co-chairman of the Lake Superior Performance Rally for which he’s more widely known these days. That’s what made May 17 something of a busman’s holiday in Minnesota.