Cochrane Rally Opens Sirius Stage Season This Weekend
Twenty teams from BC and AB will be rallying through Albertan ranch country at the 2008 Cochrane Rally of the Ranchlands on March 15 & 16. Sirius team members Jennifer and Josh will be in the right seats for Mark Jennings-Bates in an open Impreza and John Breen in a P-3 Focus, respectively.
The G2 battle will be the main focus of the Cochrane Rally this year. Two of the top G2 cars have new codrivers, and a perennial favourite is returning to his old VW ride for the event. Mark and Jennifer are slated as car 1 in the start order, leading all the 2wd cars onto the stages. Being the first car on the road will be a new challenge for Jennifer. The Prescribed Burn rally car has been fined tuned at Rocket, and the volunteer service crew will be out in full force for Cochrane. The Prescribed Burn Team is hoping for a reliable start to the 2008 season, and aiming for a podium place at Cochrane this weekend.
Link to event homepage HERE.
In February 2008 Jennifer Daly, Gordon Ryall and August Ustare joined up to compete in a 5000 mile rally from Washington into the great cold North and back again. The Alcan Rally began in 1984 and is one of the major driving event challenges in North America. The Sirius Rally WRX wagon carried the team to an 11th overall finish, and second in class IE. The rally began in Kirkland WA, traveled north to Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic ocean, and finished in Jasper AB. The BC crew was joined by Evans and Josh Keatley from ON and AB, in their rescued Subaru Forester, and Bill Beers and Doug Heredos in a Dodge Ram truck. The Sirius team took second place in the team competition.
