Canadian Rally Championship

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The Canadian Rally Championship is an automobile rallying tournament sanctioned by the Canadian Association Of RallySport (CARS).

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[edit] Canadian rallying history

The Canadian Rally Championship is Canada's only national rallying series. In fact, the Canadian Rally Championship has been run continuously since 1957 when L. Chelminski and L. Stanley from Montreal shared the very first national rally title. In the early days, the rally championship was based on a navigational rally series which, at times, had as many as twenty events in the series the most notable were the Canadian Winter and Shell 4000. As the sport gradually changed and adopted the European "stage" format, performance rallying became part of the Canadian motorsport picture. In 1973, the Canadian Rally Championship became based solely on stage rallies. Some Rally champions from the past include Paul S. Manson (Toronto), John Bird (Toronto), soon to be Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame Inductee as of Feb 10, 2007, Bruce D. Simpson, soon to be Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame Inductee as of Feb 10, 2007, Walter Boyce (Ottawa), Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame Inductee and Doug Woods (Ottawa)

[edit] 2005 Canadian Rally Championship

It consists of 6 full national events for 2005. These events take place on gravel or snow-covered roads from coast to coast.

2005 Calendar:

Feb. 4-6 RALLYE PERCE-NEIGE MANIWAKI Club - CASLL - Maniwaki, Quebec
May 27-28 ROCKY MOUNTAIN RALLY Club - CSCC - Calgary, Alberta
July 1-2 RALLYE BAIE DES CHALEURS Club - CRAB - New Richmond, Quebec
Sept. 8-11 RALLYE DEFI STE-AGATHE/DUHAMEL Club - CASDI - Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec
Oct. 14-15 PACIFIC FOREST RALLY Club - WCRA - Merritt, British Columbia
Nov. 25-26 RALLY OF THE TALL PINES Club - MLRC - Bancroft, Ontario