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Join F1 Fans to Listen to Allen Berg Talk About Racing Against Ayrton Senna and Watch the Exclusive Calgary Advance Screening of the New Movie SENNA!

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SENNA is coming to Calgary in July for one night only! Calgary Kart Racing Club (CKRC) is hosting an advance screening of the movie SENNA as part of a fundraising event on Thursday July 21, 2011 at the Globe cinema. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival award winning movie tells the story of the life and career of racing driver Ayrton Senna. Senna is widely considered to be the greatest F1 driver ever.

By attending the event you will get to hear Canada’s own F1 driver Allen Berg talk about his days of racing against, and standing on the podium with, Ayrton Senna. In addition you will be able to enter to win some fantastic prizes including a ride at Race City Speedway in a Dodge Viper ACR, the current production car lap record holder!

Event proceeds are in aid of CKRC. The club is a non-profit organization focused on providing Alberta residents with affordable yet competitive kart racing in the community for both individuals and families to enjoy. You can find out more about CKRC and kart racing at the event. Opportunities will be available to win CKRC Try a Kart certificates so that you can get in the racing seat and try this fun sport!

Visit www.ckrc.com or www.sennamovie.info for more event details and to book your tickets!

Looking back at 2010 …. I went back and figured out I attended over 31 motorsport events (10 were 2-day events)

I had … 5 stage rally, 2 test days, 2 TSD rally, 4 road race weekends, 2 school days, 1 ice race, 2 drifting, 3 shows, 2 autoslalom, 1 stock cars, 2 secret street drags, 1 rallycross, 4 AGM/Awards/Party/Meetings, and 2 fundraisers + the usual club meetings etc.

Thanks to all our customers for the support in 2010!  We had an awesome year, sales were up, met lots of new people, and enjoyed every one of the events.  Hope everyone has lots of SAFE, FAST and FUN days on the tracks in 2011!  See you there!

Here is a short video with photos from many of these events!

1/3 of the way around the planet. 4 university colleagues. A decommissioned ambulance.
What do all of these things have in common?

Check out this event (and join us on Friday November 26th!) …. Calgary area rally competitors Leanne Junnila and Eric Grochowski are participating in the Mongol charity rally in July 2011!  They are kicking off their fundraising with a film from a team that did the event in 2009.  Full details on the attached pdf.  2011 Mongol Rally Film Screening and Fundraiser

Well, it’s official: we are driving to Mongolia! Approximately 10,000 miles, across 1/3 of the planet, in a decommissioned ambulance. Wait…how is that even possible?! And why on earth would anyone want to do that?! For charity of course!

It’s called the Mongol Rally, and teams drive from London England to Mongolia to raise money for Mongolian development projects (in support of the Christina Noble Children’s Fund). Poverty is no fun, especially when you’re a kid. The reason we are taking an ambulance is because the vehicle will be donated at the end, repaired, and put back into service. Double charity!

Now, this type of operation involves a LOT of fundraising, so we want to invite you to our official kickoff party! A crazy group of Calgarians had this same irrational idea in 2009 and made a film of their experience called “Drive By Shooting”. Relax…no Calgarians were harmed in the making of this film. We’ll be screening their film, and the infamous team will be there in person to answer your questions & queries afterwards!

It is expected to be a fun evening of beer, munchies, and if you think Calgarian drivers are crazy just wait until you see the Iranian ones!

Please join us – your personal invitation is attached. Note: buy your tickets early, seating is limited! Also, please let us know if you can’t make it to this event but would like to join the mailing list for future events.

Peace out.

The Ambulators – Darren Hirst, Eric Grochowski, Josh Hollowell, Leanne Junnila