There was a fresh twist to this year's Reading Rally: professional athletes, major league baseball players, New York Mets.
O'Neil, a professional rally driver, runs the Team O'Neil Rally School here in the woods of northern New Hampshire.
With him in the car was professional rally driver Ken Block, a native of California.
"If it were a professional rally, I wouldn't have any participants," said Dominique Serra, the rally's founder, who is based in Paris.
Top Gear host Matt LeBlanc was joined by professional rally driver Ken Block for a trip around the streets of London in a Ford Mustang.
Meanwhile, there are sporting antics of a different nature when Champions League winner, Barcelona's Neymar, takes on professional rally driver Ken Block for a Footkhana challenge.
Participating were James G. Cobb, the editor of this page; Cheryl Jensen, a freelance auto writer; Chris Jensen, auto editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland; and Tim O'Neil, a former professional rally driver who owns the Team O'Neil Car Control and Rally School near Franconia, N.H.
On Saturday Top Gear host Matt LeBlanc and professional rally driver Ken Block surprised a bride and groom and their wedding guests at St Paul's Cathedral as they motored past, with the former Friends star sticking his arm out of the car window to wave.
Kraushaar is lucky, he's sponsored by Subaru, but even so this isn't a fully professional rally.
