They are awarded based on happenings during the current year, and are presented at the IRC Awards Night.
Glyn Trafford presenting the IRC Sportsmanship award to Jay Young in 2010.
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Pasted Graphic 10 Women's Overall - best female member who participated in both IRC rally (not as a novice) and IRC solo (including rally cross from 2008 onwards).
Pasted Graphic 11 Solo - best member in IRC solo (including rally cross from 2008 onwards). Can go to a novice.
Pasted Graphic 3 Rallymaster - voted on at AGM, for the member who was the best rallymaster for club events
Pasted Graphic 2 Appreciation - voted on at AGM, for the member whose efforts and dedication to the club is noteworthy.
Pasted Graphic Hard Luck - voted on at AGM, for the member felt to have the worst luck during the year, preferably event related.
Pasted Graphic 1 Sportsmanship - voted on at AGM, for the member who was the best sportsman during/at an event.
Pasted Graphic 6 Novice Overall - best novice in both IRC solo (including rally cross from 2008 onwards) and IRC rally series. Can be awarded only once.
Pasted Graphic 12 Overall - best member who competed in both IRC rally (not as novice) and solo (including rally cross from 2008 onwards).
Pasted Graphic 5 Dedication - also called the Worker - voted by President and Vice President, for the member who was most dedicated to working events (most reliable, hardest working, and greatest number).
Pasted Graphic 4 Rally Cup - awarded by Rally Director, to the member deemed to have exhibited the most selfless dedication to elevating rallying and participation.
Pasted Graphic 9 Novice Rally Driver - best novice in IRC rally series. Can be awarded only once.
Pasted Graphic 8 Novice Rally Navigator - best novice in IRC rally series. Can be awarded only once.
Pasted Graphic 13 Overall Rally - best member in IRC rally series. EACH EVENT in the Island Series must be attended, and there are worker and organizer/steward points given.
Best Overall Rally Cross - best member in IRC Rally Cross series. Shortest time overall. Any event not attended will be assigned longest time for calculation purposes.
We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2009 IRC perpetual awards, as presented at the Nov. 28 IRC Awards Party:
Appreciation: Phil Wild
Hard Luck: Gil Stuart
Rallymaster: Kathryn Hansen
Sportsmanship: Jay Young
Rally Cup: Bart Vogelzang
Dedication: Janie Ransom
and the newest, Best Overall Rally Cross: Shane Anderson
Weather, illness, and work stopped 7 people from attending, but we still had terrific fun with 13 people in attendance. Glyn Trafford was our MC, and the food, which was absolutely out of this world awesome, was personally created by Tanya Thompson. The appreciation wasn't limited to the food however, with many thanks expressed for the contributions to rallysport and IRC by Michael Mason & Co. Inc. and LeeMar Manufacturing. The good times started to come to a close just before midnight, after nearly 7 hours of fun.
See the video: Youtube
2008: IRC recognizes outstanding members at Awards Dinner
On Sunday night, December 7, the membership of the Island Rallysport Club honored a number of their members with awards. I was lucky enough to get the Appreciation Award, and ironically, unlucky enough to get the Hard Lucky Trophy. This trophy has been awarded every year since it was first presented to George Benson in 1970. Glyn Trafford was honored for his work on Crestline Trail Rally, getting the Rallymaster Award, and for her incredible work for the same event, Tanya Thompson was presented with the Dedication Award. Glyn took the opportunity to personally thank Steve Batchelor of Michael Mason & Co. Ltd. for his sponsorship of Crestline Trail Rally, and for his interest in making rallysport better than ever. For his generous and spontaneous help servicing for a performance rally team (not even IRC members), Jeff Bain was acclaimed and received the Sportsmanship Award.
A highlight of this segment of the awards came when Gil Stuart was shown that his amazing and long lasting dedication to rallysport has not gone unnoticed. Not only was Gil awarded the Rally Cup, but was also presented with a special "Order of the Isle" plaque, to several rounds of congratulatory applause.
The next set of awards are all based on member participation in our club events, which range from solo, to pavement rally, to gravel rally. The 2008 Novice Driver award went to Robert Gobright, and the Novice Navigator award went to Tristan Barnard. Not wanting to stop there, Tristan also managed to collect the Overall Rally award. To cap it all off, IRC was happy to be able to award Gavin Aitken not only the Solo award, for his performance in our Rally Crosses, but also the Overall. This award requires not only rallying skill, but also skill at slalom, and celebrates excellence and diversity.
Congratulations to you all, and a big thank-you to Janie Ransom and John Sim for setting up the lovely dinner and entertaining socializing beforehand.
Bart Vogelzang,
IRC President