Biographies Continued from Page 24 PAT CYR & MARK BIERNACKI Pat Cyr has over 20 years of motorcycle racing
experience and the 2011 Rally of the Tall Pines will be the finale of his first season of Rallying. Co-Driver Mark Biernacki has a few years of ex- perience and has run Te Tall Pines before, but did not finish the 2010 event. “I've been waiting a long time for this. I'm 1 point behind for the Ontario novice champi- onship so we will be gunning for that. I hope to get us a good solid finish this year. Watch out for the Green Monster!” •
WARREN HAYWOOD & AMANDA TOLHURST
Te 2010 Cana- dian and Ontario PGT Champion, Warren Haywood will be returning to the Tall Pines Rally for the 2011 edition of this classic event. Joining him in the car is Co-Driver Amanda
Tolhurst of Mississauga, ON. Tis has been a great season so far for the Tonik team, seeing travels as far west as the Rocky Mountain Rally in Alberta and as far south as the Mount Wash- ington Hill Climb in New Hampshire. “Tanks to all the organizers, volunteers, pho- tographers, surrounding communities and the town of Bancroft for their support in making the Tall Pines a great Canadian rally event.” SPONSORS: TONIK Motorsports, Art Is In Bakery, BinaryFortress, StreamLine Auto Glass, Studio Signs, Hot Bits Sports Suspension, Otto's Subaru and Pro Race Fuels. •
ROBERT JEKOSZ & MACIEJ WISIAWSKI
Robert Jekosz has competed in numerous Canadian rally events since the early 1990's. Be- hind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, Mitsubishi Eclipse and a Subaru Impreza STI, Robert always proves to be a crowd pleaser. With the experience of veteran Co-Driver
Maciej Wislawski, Jekosz will be a man to watch at this year’s Tall Pines. Maciej Wisławski is one of the most success- ful Co-Drivers in Poland. His co-driving career began in the mid-1970s with famous Polish drivers such as Henryk Mandery and Andrzej Lubiak. In 1988, he began his career co-driving for Krzysztof Holowczyc. Tis partnership led the pair to victory in the 1995 and 1996 Polish Rally Championship and the 1997 European Rally Championship. Additionally, the pair also claimed seventh overall at the WRC Rally Argentina in 1998. •
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WYATT KNOX & OLE HOLTER Wyatt Knox is
the current Rally America 2WD National Cham- pion and a lead in- structor at the Team O'Neil Rally School. Te Rally of the Tall Pines will be his first outing in the Team O'Neil Ford Fiesta R2 and the team looks forward to gaining valuable expe- rience for next season. •
NICK & KELLY MATHEW
Te brother and sister team of 2 Brits Racing will be attending their third Rally of the Tall Pines to- gether. With mixed success in the past, the team ex- pects to put on a good show in a fight for the 2011 Ontario Performance Rally Championship. With a substantial rebuild in 2010, the team is just finding their pace again in the back half of 2011 and hopes to come out on top. “Tank you to Nigel and Lou Mathew for
supporting us throughout the year and Planet Motorsport for keeping the car on the road and competitive.” •
TIM O’NEIL & MARTIN HEADLAND Tim O'Neil
creates champi- ons. After a very successful rally ca- reer in which he won several US, Canadian and North American Championships and drove fac- tory-backed cars for Volkswagen and Mit- subishi, Tim O'Neil started Te Team O'Neil Rally School. Tere, on over 600 acres of land and over 10kms of custom made gravel roads, he teaches both novice and expert alike in the fine art of rally driving. Te system obviously works as alumni of the school include current WRC driver Ken Block and Chris Duplessis, who made his WRC debut at Wales Rally GB this year. Last year's Super Production and 2WD champions in the Rally-America championship are instructors at the school. Train with the best and you will be the best. Tim's approach is that you must learn to drive
a slow car fast before you try to drive a fast car fast. Tat means starting with a two-wheel-drive car. To this end he has partnered with Ford Rac- ing to bring the Ford Fiesta R2 to North Amer- ica. Tese are the cars used by the WRC
Academy - identical cars being driven by young drivers - as they hone their skills on the testing roads of the World Rally Championship. Tim is bringing two R2s to Tall Pines with the second car being driven by the Rally-Amer- ica 2WD champion Wyatt Knox. Long time partner Martin Headland will be Tim’s Co-Dri- ver. Te pair won Tall Pines three times in a row 1988-1990). Te 1989 victory was accomplished in a Production class VW Golf. •
IAN TOPPING & JEFFY SECOR
Ian Topping and Jeff Secor will be entering only the second Cana- dian rally of their careers. Regulars on the Rally America scene, the duo will be making their Tall Pines debut in the Flying Moose Rally Team 1980 Volvo 242 Group 2. “Tis is only the second time the Flying Moose Rally Team has ventured to Canada for a CARS event. We had a great time at the Black Bear Rally in June. We look forward to challeng- ing roads, great fun and the best rally fans and workers in North America!” SPONSORS: Tompson Racing Fabrication and Knox Motorsports. •
JAN & JODY ZEDRIL
Brothers Jan and Jody Zedril of Winnipeg, MB have amassed an impressive list of accomplishments including the 2007-2008 North American and Rally America Production titles and the 2007-2011 Canadian Two-Wheel-Drive Championship. Following a string of three 2WD wins span- ning both sides of the Canada-US border, the newly-crowned champions are aiming for a fourth consecutive victory at the notoriously dif- ficult Rally of the Tall Pines in their 2003 Mit- subishi Lancer ES. Te event marks their 40th start with 28 class wins and only one DNF. With the race for the championship behind them, the brothers know the competition will be tough and plan to do whatever it takes to earn another win. More importantly, they hope to secure a third consecutive 2WD Manufacturer Championship for Mitsubishi. “Many thanks to the throngs of fans, specta- tors and volunteers for the passion they bring to this amazing sport and to each and every one of our partners for their continued support and as- sistance in turning dreams into reality.” SPONSORS: Mitsubishi Canada, Boisvert Mit- subishi of Quebec, Racing Performance Works Australia and
TerraFirmaClothing.com. •
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