Chappell Challenge Rally

Marcus Chappell was a keen Canadian rally competitor. He passed away before he was able to organize a rally for his local Ottawa Jaguar Car Club. In his honour, 6 local clubs came together to run the rally he had planned: BMW Car Club of Ottawa, Ottawa Jaguar Club, Ottawa Valley Triumph Club, Ottawa Mini Club, Ottawa section of the Mercedes Benz Club of North America and the Ottawa MG Club.

Despite, or perhaps because of the weather forecasts, it wound up spitting and drizzling the whole day instead of the partially cloudy forecast. Many of the competitors started out with tops down, but finally gave in and hoisted the lids at some point during the ling cruise way out into the boonies of Ontario. In scoping out potential photo locations, I’d driven the route the week before, so I can attest to the great roads that Marcus had chosen. The route started in Carleton Place, passed through Perth and headed out via Balderson, Elphin, Snow Road Station and Ompah to Plevna and back via a different Route.

And while the rally revolves around cars and driving, it’s really the friends and new people we get to meet, swap stories and get to know that make these events the success they are.

I’ve created a gallery for the participants to review and select images from. It is password protected. The password will be distributed, along with the link, later this week when all the images are posted. In the interim, the link to the gallery is here. For those who did compete, the password is the same as where the awards were handed out. The password uses no capital letters or numbers.