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Tom Burgess (1998)
For more than 35 years, Tom Burgess blazed across the rally trail in Canada and the United States as a competitor. His record speaks for itself: 39 National victories, six National championships and two North American championships. He was National Rally Director from 1984 to1986, President of the B.C. Region of the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs in1975 and '76 and B.C. Rally Director in 1973 and '74, and, as a member of the National Rally Committee, helped to write the Canadian Rally rulebook.
More about this member :: Back to top Sandy Elliot (1998)
For more than three years, the Sandy Elliot Drag Racing Team was the scourge of Super Stock racing in the U.S. and Canada. In 1968, Elliot's son John became the first Canadian to win an NHRA stock class. In 1970, Barrie Poole was the first Canadian to win a National Eliminator title. By 1971, competing in 17 NHRA Nationals, both cars made the finals16 times, winning three Nationals, were runner-up at two more, made the semi-finals 12 times and set nine national records. Sandy Elliot earned the title of Super Stock Crew Chief of the Year and was named to Car Craft magazine's All Star Drag Racing Team in 1971.
More about this member :: Back to top Ron Farmer (1998)
As a member of the B.C. Custom Car Association since 1951, Ron was deeply involved in building Mission Raceway, in 1965. Ron managed the track until it was sold in 1978 to the District of Mission for an industrial park. Part of that deal gave the club the property for a new motorsport facility and promised government help to prepare the site. But, along the way, the politicians forgot their promises, and Ron Farmer led the battle all the way to the Ombudsman's office of the B.C. provincial government and to the Supreme Court. Today, the new Mission Raceway Park is thriving. And Ron Farmer was still managing it up until the end of '95.
More about this member :: Back to top Tom Johnston (1998)
Tom Johnston had a love affair with road racing that spanned 35 years, including 13 as a driver, 15 as a constructor/owner and 11 (as of 1998) as an owner/entrant. As a racer, Tom won the 1963 Prairie Region H Production championship and the 1970 International Conference of Sports Car Clubs Formula Ford title. Since retiring in 1973, Tom has created opportunities for many young drivers including Ross Bentley and Frank Allers. Tom's backing allowed Allers to win the 1990 Player's Ltd. Canadian Formula Atlantic Championship and place second in that series in 1989 and 1991.
More about this member :: Back to top Tom Jones (1998)
Stock cars, ice racers, rally cars and production sedans, Tom Jones has driven them all. He was Canada's first FIA-graded rally driver, competing in a number of Shell 4000s and winning the 1968 Carreras 1000 Rally in Jamaica and the 1969 Press On Regardless Rally in Michigan. Between 1973 and 1979, he dominated the International Ice Racing Circuit, before turning to GT-1 and GT-2 sedan racing. He won a number of Prairie Region championships, several outright Canadian titles and a string of races south of the border. In1982, he won all five races in the Molyslip Challenge series.
More about this member :: Back to top Jim Kelly (1998)
Jim Kelly was a highly accomplished competitor in many disciplines of motorcycle racing, scrambles, trials, speedway, road racing, dirt-track racing and spiked tire ice racing, in which he won a total of four national championships. Jim was also a rider and team manager of Canada's International Six Day Endurance effort for more than 25 years. He served as an executive of the Steel City Riders in Hamilton, Ontario, and served on the board of the Canadian Motorcycle Association for 24 consecutive years, including the post of president of the CMA from 1972 to 1975.
More about this member :: Back to top Dave Morris (1998)
Dave Morris was a fine racing driver in his own right. In four years of driving Formula Fords, Dave chalked up 29 victories in 65 races including the 1973 Canadian Formula Ford championship. By 1976, Dave was supplying Formula Atlantic engines for Gilles Villeneuve, who won 12 of 13 races and both Canadian and North American titles. In 1977, Dave owned the team that fielded Villeneuve. Gilles clinched another Canadian title and finished up the year driving for Ferrari in Formula 1. Dave Morris can take some of the credit for getting him there.
More about this member :: Back to top Norm Namerow (1998)
Norm Namerow was a good racer and a good friend to motorsport. When St. Eugene ran into financial trouble, it was Norm who bankrolled the track and kept it going. He was also the publisher of Canada Track and Traffic, providing a voice for motorsport in Canada when no other existed. It is indeed fitting that there is a corner named for him at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant
More about this member :: Back to top Al Pease (1998)
It is doubtful that any other driver in the history of Canadian motorsport has collected more trophies than Al Pease, winning a steady stream of regional and national championships in a variety of cars for almost 30 years. He drove a Gurney Eagle in the first Formula1 Grand Prix of Canada at Mosport in 1967, and he won the last race ever at Harewood in a Brabham BT21 in1970. He was also instrumental in getting the CASC to allow sponsors' names on the side of racing cars, paving the way for a whole new generation of professional Canadian racing drivers.
More about this member :: Back to top Ross Pedersen (1998)
For 15 years, from 1978 to 1983, Ross Pedersen soared like an eagle, dominating Canadian Motorcars and Supercross racing like no one before or since. In 1978, he was 250cc and Open Senior Motorcross champion. From1980 until he retired at the end of the 1993 season, Ross collected a total of 42 national championships, including all eight of the Supercross championships ever held in Canada. Ross went out in style, winning his final Supercross at the Olympic Stadium in 1993.
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