We’re not moving too quickly here in the Driven Wheels command centre this morning, so it was nice to find this little bit of action waiting to perk us up this morning. Check out Rally Pilot Racing and Jeremy Norris’ season ending highlight reel. Lots of great rally Subaru footage in this one.
Rally of the Tall Pines: Detlor Road
While the Rally of the Tall Pines is known as a snow/gravel event, there is a very short section of tarmac, where competitors blast through a tiny hamlet on Detlor Road. YouTuber Curtis James caught some of the action at the transition from loose gravel to tarmac. If you look closely at about 2:30, you’ll […]
Ride along with Martin & Johnson at Tall Pines
After winning the Rally of the Tall Pines in 2013, Chris Martin and Brian Johnson took a year off, so it was great to see them back in competition this year. Martin is always on full attack, so he is great fun to watch. In this first video from this year’s rally, we ride along […]
Watch Jeremy Norris’ big jump at Tall Pines
The winner of our very unofficial big air competition at this year’s running of the Rally of the Tall Pines was unquestionably Jeremy Norris in his black and blue Subaru. I shot it from the side, while the folks from Rally Canada got a longer view with their video camera. Jeremy Norris Big Air.A lot […]
Vincent wins 2015 Rally of the Tall Pines to round out a great rally career!
Anyone who doesn’t believe that climate change is a real thing just needs to look at photos of the Rally of the Tall Pines over the years. Historically described as Winter roads with Summer ditches, it had been a number of years since Tall Pines had been held in snowy conditions. A couple of […]
Video: 1989 Rally of the Tall Pines
If you are stuck at the office today and can’t get up to Bancroft to check out some of the recce action at the Rally of the Tall Pines, we’ve got you covered. I have never met Stephen M. Ihasz, but years ago I had several of the video tapes (yes, they were VHS) that […]
Rally of the Tall Pines entry list and schedule
With just a week to go before the final round of the Canadian Rally Championship in Bancroft, Ontario, the entry list for the Rally of the Tall Pines is filling out nicely. At present, the list shows a decent field of 28 cars, ranging from a couple of two wheel drive Volkswagens up to the […]
Ontario Performance Rally Championship 2014 Highlights
Most rally coverage tends to focus on the National level championships, because that is where the big (by rally standards) names and the fastest cars play. That is a shame, because at the more local, grassroots level, there is just as much excitement. Competitors on a provincial level often scrape together every penny, just to […]
Bumper Cam view of Tall Pines will blow your mind
So you have always thought that you were able to hustle pretty quickly down your cottage road, right? Let me tell you that you are slow. This bumper cam view from the Old Hastings stage at the Rally of the Tall Pines is nothing short of mind blowing. Think about the first time you saw […]
Rally of the Tall Pines wrapup
It seems that I am a bad publisher guy, as I put all of my other outlets and my CCOTY duties before actually reporting on the Rally of the Tall Pines here on Driven Wheels. I’m going to justify it by saying that this post will be cooler than it would have been a week […]