Canadian Rally Championship

Canadian Rally Championship

Category	Rallying
Country	Canada
Inaugural season	1957
Drivers' champion	Antoine L'Estage
Official website	www.carsrally.ca
Current season

The Canadian Rally Championship is an automobile rallying championship sanctioned by the Canadian Association of RallySport (CARS) held since 1957 in Canada.

Canadian rallying history

Bryan Maplethorpe, in his open class 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX rally car at the 2007 Kananaskis Rally in Alberta, Canada.

The Canadian Rally Championship (CRC) is Canada'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 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 Art Dempsey, Bill Silvera, and Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductees John Bird, Paul S. Manson, 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.

2015 CRC Season

The CRC consists of 6 national events for 2015. These events take place on gravel or snow-covered roads from coast to coast.

2015 Event Calendar

Round	Date	Event	Club	Location	Surface
1	February 6–7	Rallye Perce-Neige Maniwaki	CASLL	Maniwaki	Ice and snow-covered gravel
2	June 27–28	Rallye Baie Des Chaleurs	CRAB	New Richmond	Gravel
3	September 11–12	Rallye Defi	CASDI	Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts	Gravel
4	October 2–3	Pacific Forest Rally	WCRA	Merritt	Gravel
5	Oct 31– Nov 1	Rocky Mountain Rally	CSCC	Calgary	Ice and snow-covered gravel
6	November 27–28	Rally of the Tall Pines	MLRC	Bancroft	Gravel (ice and snow cover possible)

2014 Drivers' Championship Final Standings

2014 Co-Drivers' Championship Final Standings

2014 Manufacturers' Championship Final Standings

Place	Team	Points
1.	Mitsubishi	120
2.	Subaru	90
3.	Mini	24
4.	BMW	12
5.	Ford	10

Champions

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)

External links

• The Canadian Association of Rallysport web site.