The Calgary Sports Car Club
Presents the:

CALGARY WINTER PERFORMNCE RALLY

March 5/6, 1999

COME AND ENJOY ONE OF THE MORE CHALLENGING WINTER RALLIES CALGARY HAS TO OFFER.
WONDERFUL ROADS AND GOOD COMPETITION!

SCHEDULE-

March 5/1999:
Scrutineering and Registration
Rally vehicles will be on display

March 6/1999:
Special stages near Sundre commence
COME SEE THE ACTION!

Contact the Rally Organizer Wade Anderson at (403) 271-0707
or check out our Website for more updated information at: http://bishop.ab.ca/CSCC/

For Immediate Release
March 7, 1999
Contact: Shawn Bishop
277-6291

Brooks Team Wins Annual Winter Rally

Gord and Kathy Olsen from Brooks, AB drove their Volkswagen Golf GTI to victory in this weekends Calgary Winter Rally, 1st event in the Rally West Pro Rally Championship series. Second were Dave Sharp and Dwight Heck in a Mazda RX-7 followed closely by Maciej Ogrocki/Michael Nicols in a Honda Civic. The top Calgary team was Dave Palmer and Wade Anderson who finished fourth in their Ford Capri.

Pro Rally or Stage Rallying is a motorsport event where teams race against the clock over closed forestry access roads. The team with the fastest total time over the day is declared the winner.

Rally teams from Alberta contested over 100 km of snow covered and icy roads in the Bow Crow Forest area northwest of Cochrane. In places the snow was 8-10 inches deep on the road making the route treacherous and catching many teams off guard sending them into the snowbanks. The local Calgary team of Tomasz Karzynski and Zbignlew Szewczyk, while leading the event, went off the road crashing their Toyota Celica Alltrac heavily into the trees. No one was injured.

Next event in the Western Canadian Rally series is the Bighorn Rally in Hinton, May 22-23 followed by the Rocky Mountain Rally in Calgary on May 28-29. Both these events are also part of the Subaru Canadian Rally Championship.

Final Standings

	Driver.Co-driver		Car		Class		Time

1.  Gord Olsen/Kathy Olsen  		VW Golf		Grp 2		1:07:00
2.  Dave Sharp/Dwight Heck		Mazda RX-7	Grp 2		1:08:20
3.  Maciej Ogrocki/Michael Nicols	Honda Civic	Grp 2		1:08:38
4.  Dave Palmer/Wade Anderson		Ford Capri	Grp 5		1:14:43
5.  Miles McEwing/Jeff Fehr		VW Rabbit	P1750?		1:20:11
6.  Janusz Komorowski/ Peter Hill	Mazda 323 GTX	GT		1:58:17
     Tomasz Karzynski/Zbignlew Szewczyk Celica AWD 	GT		OFF ROAD




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(403) 285-1177
http://www.bishop.ab.ca/CSCC

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