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MAY 2006

Friday, June 2nd Question: what's big, red, and goes like a rocket? See the answer from this past weekend at The River's Edge, in Mission. Thursday, June 1st The folks at Thunder Mountain want to extend an invitation for an alternative to street racing- its called "Friday Night Instant Green Street Legal Races" where for 20 bucks you can see what your ride can do. Wednesday, May 31st Markus has sent in June's UP2Speed.  I am sure we will get a lot of comments about this one.  Click here for the article Monday, May 29th The folks over at AutoAddicts want to let you know they have started posting photos from the various car shows again.  Check out the latest by clicking here. Sunday, May 28th Don't forget about the karts!  They are racing today at the Multiplex in Vernon. Photos from Thursday's Autocross can be found here. Friday, May 26th If you are making weekend racing plans- they should include Viva Italia in Mission (the other one) in celebration of the classic Italians marques! See and hear Ferraris, Bugattis and Lamborghinis storm around the track in a symphony! Wednesday, May 24th Finally, the pictures from the May 11th Autocross can be found here.  We hope to have last week's ones up shortly. Sunday, May 21st The sun came out for day two of the Knox Mountain Hillclimb! Click here for the photos! This year's Knox Mountain Hill Climb has started out very well.  Even the rain could not ruin the racer's spirits. Here are the results from Saturday and Sunday. A special thanks to Bill and Markus for taking the photos of day one of the race and sorting through them.  I have posted them here. For those of you interested in getting print photos, Cloud Nine Photography was there.  You can get to their website by clicking here. Saturday, May 20th What a rainy start to the hill climb.  Markus is out there taking pictures so give him a pat on the back.  The rest of the crew will be out shortly.  Meanwhile, check out Markus' thoughts of this year's Heart of Darkness rally.  Click here. Thursday, May 18th IMPORTANT NOTICE:   This Saturday and Sunday the Knox Mountain Hillclimb organizers are looking for car racing enthusiasts that are interested in volunteering at the premier motorsports event in BC. The Knox Mountain Motorsports Club needs volunteers for either one or both days this coming long weekend. The club needs people that would like to be up close and on track working as volunteers. The work consists of watching the cars and spectators for safely and occasionally sweeping the track.   Every volunteer will have lunches provided for them both days and they will also receive a Knox Mountain Hillclimb volunteer t-shirt.   If you would like to volunteer please email Matt Scaife at mortgages@717-MRTG.ca or you can call him at 717-MRTG (6784) and leave a message, or you can just show up on Saturday or Sunday at the start line at 7:00 am for the volunteers meeting. All volunteers must be at least 19 years old.   Autocross this evening at McCurdy Centre- Jim and Brian will be organizing, and there is talk of more thundershowers. Matt did let us know that vehicle entries are somewhat lower this year for the Knox Mountain Hill Climb, which means more hill time for the drivers that are here. With the fantastic weather expected, it promises to be a great race weekend. Becky Scott, recently retired from the Canadian Olympic X-C Ski Team, has accepted a position on the board of directors for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games Organising Committee. To do so, gold-medal winner Catriona Le May Doan stepped down. What, only one female medalist allowed? Photo Markus Heinrichs Tuesday, May 16th For TSD fans, here is an event to follow- the 2006 Alcan 5000. Departing from Kirkland, WA on August 14, it heads north through British Columbia to the Yukon over a period of 9 days and 5000 miles. Their first night will be in Quesnel, so its possible their route will be through the Okanagan! Check it out rally fans!   Team PrescribedBurn issued a press release last week- we're finally getting around to posting. Look for the SunFM/Valley Mitsubishi/ColdwellBanker sponsored Eagle Talon of Mark Jennings-Bates and co-driver Wynne Jenkins at this year's Knox Mountain Hillclimb. Monday, May 15th Hi, just a quick note to those visiting the site for the first time. OkanaganRacing is for fans of all kinds of racing. We want to promote your race events to people interested in watching or perhaps participating in your type of sport. We also want to attract photographers and provide a means for them to market their sport-images. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact us. Meanwhile, enjoy browsing our site. Sunday, May 14th Preliminary results from the Heart of Darkness TSD rally show Markus and Peter in the OkanaganRacing.com entry 2nd in class. A big thanks to their sponsor BigO Tires Westbank. Details and photographs to come!  Saturday, May 13th Thursday's Autocross update: As the drivers arrived, the spectre of the first rain-day of the autocross season was apparent. That bright sliver of sun to the west was encouraging, and by the time drivers' meeting was called, the rain stopped, much to everybody's appreciation. Matt was first car out, and as usual, posted a good time. But with the course drying out after each vehicle, times were steadily dropping. Tension was in the air as Terry Dunn and (older guy red miata black roll bar) battled for superiority- with Dunn victorious.  Eric managed to wipe out an entire row cones, an unwelcome combination of wet corner, no traction, and turbo power! In the hunt for FTD were Ron, Zack, and Marcell- swapping the title of FTD until the final round, when Marcel broke the 38 second barrier. Congratulations to all drivers, job well done! Photos are on their way. Tuesday, May 9th Live from the West Edmonton Mall.  I will be back on Tuesday.  Sorry I missed Sunday's races.  I did have a replacement scheduled - but it did not work out.  Both Rick and Bill will be there on Thursday though - so we should have everything covered.  See you soon. Saturday, May 6th Photos from Thursday night's autocross can be found here. Congratulations to Russ and Satch for winning the Coast to Coast 2006 TSD Rally! Friday, May 5th OkanaganRacing.com is registered in the Heart of Darkness TSD rally. We'd love some local competition. Registration continues until the 13th. This 600 km event is begins in Hope, and occurs at night. Needless to say, afterwards our sponsor SpecialtyBulb will have a few comments on the importance of lighting. Wednesday, May 3rd Markus' May UP2SPEED column can be found here. All you photographers out there, don't forget about the NIKON roadshow tomorrow night.  Stop by Photography West on Tutt Street for more info or to sign up. Sunday, April 30th Matt's overview of round two of the Okanagan British Car Club's autocross series can be found here. Saturday, April 29th What a busy month it has been.  It was good to see the autocross take such a positive and welcome start for 2006.  Speaking of autocross - here are the pictures from the second round of the series.  Click here. Friday, April 28th Don't forget about the Coast to Coast TSD rally happening this weekend.  Click here for more details. Last night's autocross had the best spectator turnout to date. Thank you to all who showed up to see the races and support their favorite driver. Speaking about drivers, we are also having a lot of new faces - this is a very good thing.  We hope to have the pictures up shortly. As you may have noticed the forum section is not working properly right now.  We are in the process of migrating to a new server.  We should have everything up and running in a few days.

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