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The Canadian Rally
Rallying
Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

Championship is an automobile

Automobile

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rallying

Rallying

Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

tournament

Tournament

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sanctioned by the Canadian Association of RallySport (CARS).

Canadian rallying history

The Canadian Rally Championship (CRC) is Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

's only national rallying series. 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Rally Championship, making it the longest running motorsport series in Canada. It has been run continuously since 1957 when Leslie Chelminski and Les Stanley from Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

shared the very first national rally title in a factory-prepared Volkswagen Karmann-Ghia. In the early days, the rally championship was based on a navigational (also called time-speed-distance or TSD) rally series which, at times, had as many as twenty events in the series. The most notable Canadian car rallies in those days were the Canadian Winter Rally and the Shell 4000. Some Rally champions from the TSD era include Paul S. Manson, Art Dempsey, Bill Silvera, and Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame was founded in 1993 by Lee Abrahamson and Gary Magwood assisted by Len Coates to celebrate the accomplishments and contributions of the Canadian motorsport community....

inductees John Bird and Bruce D. Simpson.

As the sport gradually changed and adopted the European "stage" format, performance rallying became part of the Canadian motorsport picture. As opposed to TSD rallies, where competitors are required to follow the organizer's schedule, travel below posted speed limits and otherwise adhere to the rules of the public roads they are traveling on, performance rallies incorporate high speed "special stages" on roads closed to vehicles other than the rally cars, which must be specially prepared with full safety equipment. In 1973, the Canadian Rally Championship became based solely on stage rallies, including the Rally of the Tall Pines, which is still the premier event, and is held in November every year. Some big names from the performance rally era include Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

Inductee Walter Boyce

Walter Boyce

Walter Boyce is a Canadian former rally racer. He is the only Canadian to win a World Rally Championship event, which he managed at the 1973 Press-on-Regardless Rally in the United States. He took his second podium finish at the 1974 Rally of the Rideau Lakes in his home country, finishing third...

and his co-driver Doug Woods, Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame

inductees Taisto Heinonen and Tom Burgess, 6-time champions Tom McGeer and Frank Sprongl, 4-time champions Nathalie Richard and Antoine L'Estage, Andrew Comrie-Picard

Andrew Comrie-Picard

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, and 4-time champion Patrick Richard.

2011 CRC Season

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The CRC consists of 6 national events for 2011. These events take place on gravel or snow-covered roads from coast to coast.

2011 Event Calendar

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! Round
! Date
! Event
! Club
! Location
! Surface
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| 1
| February 4-5
| Rallye Perce-Neige Maniwaki
| CASLL
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Maniwaki
| Ice and snow covered gravel
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| 2
| May 26-27
| Rocky Mountain Rally
| CSCC
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Calgary

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New Richmond

New Richmond, Quebec

New Richmond is an incorporated municipality in Quebec, Canada situated on the southern coast of the Gaspé Peninsula between the municipalities of Maria and Caplan. The first European settlers arrived from Scotland in 1755. The first arrivals were the Duthie brothers, George and John Duthie and...

Merritt

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Bancroft

-People:*The Bancroft family, previous owners of Dow Jones & Company*Aaron Bancroft , Colonial American clergyman and Revolutionary War soldier*Ann Bancroft -People:*The Bancroft family, previous owners of Dow Jones & Company*Aaron Bancroft (1755-1839), Colonial American clergyman and Revolutionary...

| Gravel
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2010 Drivers' Championship Final Standings

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Place
! Driver
! Car
! Points
|-
| 1. ||Antoine L'Estage

Antoine L'Estage

Antoine L'Estage is a Canadian rally driver who has won rallies in both Canada and America. He currently lives in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.-Rally:...

||Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi

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||98
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| 2. ||Patrick Richard||Subaru

Subaru

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||75
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| 2. ||Craig Henderson||Subaru||75
|-
| 4. ||Bruno Carré||Subaru||66
|-
| 5. ||Leonid Urlichich||Subaru||47
|-
| 6. ||Hardy Schmidtke||Subaru||28
|-
| 7. ||Mathieu L'Estage||Mitsubishi||23
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| 9. ||Ugo DesGreniers||Subaru||22
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| 9. ||Steeve Hobbs||Subaru||20
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|10. ||Marc Bourassa||Subaru||18
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|10. ||Simon Losier||Mitsubishi||18
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2010 Co-Drivers' Championship Final Standings

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Place
! Co-Driver
! Points
|-
| 1. ||Nathalie Richard||100
|-
| 2. ||Lyne Murphy||81
|-
| 3. ||Alan Ockwell||75
|-
| 4. ||Yvan Joyal||69
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| 5. ||Adam Vokes||32
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| 6. ||Yanick Napert||25
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| 6. ||Philippe Poirier||25
|-
| 8. ||Éric Kirby||24
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| 9. ||Jean-Mathieu Tremblay||20
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| 10. ||Daniel Paquette||19
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|}

2010 Manufacturers' Championship Final Standings

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! Place
! Team
! Points
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| 1. ||

Subaru

|| 100
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| 2. ||

Mitsubishi

|| 99
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| 3. ||

Volkswagen

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Past Champions

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! Year
! Driver
! Co-Driver
! Marque
|-
| 1957
| Leslie Chelminski
| Les Stanley
| Volkswagen

Volkswagen

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| 1958
| Leslie Chelminski
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|
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| 1959
| Art Dempsey
| Bill A. Silvera
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| 1960
| Art Dempsey
| Bill A. Silvera
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| 1961
|
| Bill A. Silvera
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| 1962
|
| John C. Wilson
|-
| 1963
|
| John Bird
| Volkswagen
|-
| 1964
|
| John Bird
| Volkswagen
|-
| 1965
|
| John Bird
| Volkswagen
|-
| 1966
| Bruce Simpson
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| Volvo

Volvo

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Datsun

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| 1968
| Keith Ronald
| John Slade
| Volkswagen
|-
| 1969
| Bruce Schmidt
| Betty Schmidt
| Datsun
|-
| 1970
| Walter Boyce

Walter Boyce

Fiat

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Audi

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Subaru

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| 1994
| Frank Sprongl
| Dan Sprongl
| Audi
|-
| 1995
| Frank Sprongl
| Mike Koch
| Audi
|-
| 1996
| Carl Merrill
| Yorgi Bittner
| Eagle
|-
| 1997
| Frank Sprongl
| Dan Sprongl
| Audi
|-
| 1998
| Frank Sprongl
| Dan Sprongl
| Audi
|-
| 1999
| Frank Sprongl
| Dan Sprongl
| Audi
|-
| 2000
| Tom McGeer
| Mark Williams
| Subaru
|-
| 2001
| Tom McGeer
| Mark Williams
| Subaru
|-
| 2002
| Patrick Richard
| Ian McCurdy
| Subaru
|-
| 2003
| Tom McGeer
| Philip Erickson
| Subaru
|-
| 2004
| Patrick Richard
| Nathalie Richard
| Subaru
|-
| 2005
| Peter Thomson
| Rod Hendrickson
| Subaru
|-
| 2006
| Antoine L'Estage

Antoine L'Estage

Antoine L'Estage is a Canadian rally driver who has won rallies in both Canada and America. He currently lives in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.-Rally:...

| Ole Holter
| Hyundai

Hyundai

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|-
| 2007
| Antoine L'Estage
| Nathalie Richard
| Hyundai
|-
| 2008
| Patrick Richard
| Alan Ockwell
| Subaru
|-
| 2009
| Patrick Richard
| Alan Ockwell
| Subaru
|-
| 2010
| Antoine L'Estage
| Nathalie Richard
| Subaru
|-
| 2011
| Antoine L'Estage
| Nathalie Richard
|
|}

Canadian Performance Rally Lifetime Standings

The following standings are based on an individual's placings in the first six overall positions on all Canadian Championship Performance Rallies from 1973 to 2008.
There are 13 drivers who have attained Grand Master status (>2000 points)
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
|-
! Driver
! Lifetime Points
! CARS Points
! Career Wins
|-
| Taisto Heinonen
| 5580
| 1104
| 40
|-
| Tom McGeer
| 4990
| 1053
| 21
|-
|Frank Sprongl
|4940
|1049
|36
|-
|John Buffum

John Buffum

John Buffum is the most successful U.S. rally driver ever, winning 11 national titles and 117 national championship events....

|4900
|778
|43
|-
|Jean-Paul Perusse
|3860
|784
|21
|-
|Walter Boyce
|2920
|593
|12
|-
|Randy Black
|2880
|570
|10
|-
|Patrick Richard
|2430
|508
|14
|-
|Bo Skowronnek
|2390
|503
|5
|-
|Carl Merril
|2350
|382
|8
|-
|Antoine L'Estage

Antoine L'Estage

Antoine L'Estage is a Canadian rally driver who has won rallies in both Canada and America. He currently lives in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec.-Rally:...

|2270
|496
|15
|-
|Bjorn Anderson
|2120
|420
|6
|-
|Sylvain Vincent
|2050
|442
|0
|}

External links

In addition, several regional series are also supported throughout Canada:

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