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Canada’s First Eco-Friendly Rally Car wins Ontario Championship

November 26, 2009

Friends of The Garage, Chris Martin and Phil Narini completed a stellar season at the 2009 round of the Rally of the Tall Pines. Their win at Pines brought it all together as they won the 2009 Ontario Performance Rally Championship (OPRC) Overall Driver, Open Class Driver and Novice Driver.
“It feels great to win [...]

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“Car 55 is in the drink”

November 21, 2009

Thanks to Twitter user @NeilMcDaid for this Tall Pines update.

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Tall Pines Rally runs today in Bancroft

November 21, 2009

I’m not quite sure how I forgot to post on this, I guess there has just been too many things in my feeble little brain.
The Rally of the Tall Pines is running today in Ontario cottage country. This final event in the North American Rally Championship and Canadian Rally Championship is also known as [...]

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Where’s Warwick?

November 23, 2008

This poor frosty looking Bug was sitting in the corner of the parking lot at the Dungannon service area. As I was taking photos, I noticed a single set of footprints in the snow circling the blue Beetle.
Somehow I suspect that Warwick Patterson may have beaten me to the Beetle!

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Tall Pines 2008: Iron Bridge

November 23, 2008

The Iron Bridge spectator stage of the Rally of the Tall Pines has been a fan fave for many years thanks to great elevated viewing areas and access to close parking. Arriving late to the stage meant that I had to stay in the cordoned off spectator areas, which limited my view but I still [...]

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Pat Richard takes the win at Tall Pines

November 23, 2008

Official press release from CARS Media with images courtesy of Andrew Harvey.
Bancroft, ON — Patrick Richard and co-driver, Alan Ockwell, overcame treacherous road conditions and high attrition to dominate the Rally of the Tall Pines, held in Bancroft, Ontario. The final round of the 2008 Canadian Rally Championship saw the Subaru Rally Team Canada duo [...]

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Rally of the Tall Pines: Stage A2

November 22, 2008

By stage A2 this afternoon, things had already heat up for some teams, while others were falling apart. The keen eyed among you may notice that Ken Block’s Subaru is absent from the photos. No, I didn’t miss him. Block crashed out before he reached me on the stage. Listening to the marshall’s radio told [...]

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2008 Rally of the Tall Pines: Dawn comes early and cold

November 22, 2008

I seem to recall mentioning in last night’s post that it was cold in Bancroft. Well folks, last night was nothing compared to this morning! When I left the hotel at 6:30 it was minus 19 degrees celsius according to the dash in the 2009 Mazda6 that I have this week. Ponder that if you [...]

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Rally of the Tall Pines 2008: Friday update

November 21, 2008

Perhaps the most significant detail about tonight is that it is colder than a witches teat! Minus 9 Celsius. too damn cold to be slinging a camera around. Even still, the sound of high strung rally cars and the scent of exotic race fuels in the air are enough to take the edge off the [...]

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2007 Rally of the Tall Pines ready to roll this weekend

November 22, 2007

As the marketing guys for one of the Canadian sports channels used to say in their spots: Real Cars, Real Roads, Real Fast. Or something to that effect!
The Rally of the Tall Pines, or Tall Pines as it is known has historically been the final round of the Canadian Rally Championship. It is one of [...]

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