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March 12th 2012
Podium at the Cochrane Rally! After 2 weeks of incredible amounts of car preparation by our crew and VEX Performance and gruelling day of competitive racing we are ecstatic with the result of a 2nd place finish! As this is the first round of the Western Canadian Rally Championship for 2012 we are off to a great start to achieve our goals! More pics in our Rally section.
Podium at the Cochrane Rally! After 2 weeks of incredible amounts of car preparation by our crew and VEX Performance and gruelling day of competitive racing we are ecstatic with the result of a 2nd place finish! As this is the first round of the Western Canadian Rally Championship for 2012 we are off to a great start to achieve our goals! More pics in our Rally section.
Photo by Piotr Leskiewicz
Photo by Suzanne Uijterlinde
March 8th 2012
We would like to welcome a new sponsor for our team! We are pleased to be working with our new dyno/tuning sponsor AirBoy Tuning!
We would like to welcome a new sponsor for our team! We are pleased to be working with our new dyno/tuning sponsor AirBoy Tuning!
December 31st 2011
What a great way to end 2011, we won the final race and the final race series ever at Race City motorsport park! Finishing first in AWD in the CSCC Rallycross series! Thanks to our team, and sponsors for the amazing support through 2011, it's been an amazing year and we are looking forward to 2012!
photo by Ian Gulinao
What a great way to end 2011, we won the final race and the final race series ever at Race City motorsport park! Finishing first in AWD in the CSCC Rallycross series! Thanks to our team, and sponsors for the amazing support through 2011, it's been an amazing year and we are looking forward to 2012!
photo by Ian Gulinao
November 6th 2011
Heartache!! well.... the Kananaskis Rally was quite a ride for us. Our Co-driver pulled out the day before recce, and we had a series of small issues to overcome. However, we had a fellow driver who wasn't competing fill the co-driver chair for us, and although I had to get used to hearing some calls in Russian we started to set a strong pace! With a stage win in the first set of stages, we were sitting comfortably in 3rd. The competition was very fast though and we knew it would be a tough battle. So we set out against these fast teams on a long stage when our intercom failed. With no notes to follow, and a flat tire on stage we lost some time and fell to fourth. Our amazing crew wired in another borrowed intercom and kept the car running strong until we lost power on the second last stage! AAAAAAH! Oh well. We had a blast running, and we learned a lot, and set some competitive stage times. Thanks to all the volunteers and organizers, the event was a blast! We look forward to setting out competitively in the 2012 WCRC!
Photo by Mike Boldt
November 4th 2011
Freshly back from SEMA and meetings with some of our supporters and hopefully some new supporters. So many great innovations in the automotive world. I was extremely impressed with the new sequential gearbox from OS Giken for the R35! It was also an honour to have our car featured on the OS Giken display! We are exhausted but ready to hit the Kananaskis Rally this weekend!
October 3rd 2011
Pacific Forest Rally!
Wow. First of all the PFR was an amazing event! The organizers did an amazing job co-ordinating 30 teams, over 2 days of Recce, and 2 days of racing covering 17 stages. Pitch black, heavy dust, cliffs, mud, dirt, tight technical stages, open fast sections, through beautiful scenery and a chance to jump the car frequently = awesome rally! Our car and team performed admirably setting some strong stage times during the daytime stages. Unfortunately our lights failed and we were stuck running the night stages with insufficient lighting dropping us from the 5th place we were holding to 9th. Check our Pro Rally section for pictures! It was an amazing time though, and we are looking forward to the Kananaskis rally next!
Sept. 12th 2011
Thanks to our on board video, and shots from our crew and fans we have a short video to share with you from the August 28th test day. This was a fantastic chance for us to shake down the rally car even further, with the car performing strong and flawless all day. We hope you enjoy this video as much as we did making it for you!
Thanks to our on board video, and shots from our crew and fans we have a short video to share with you from the August 28th test day. This was a fantastic chance for us to shake down the rally car even further, with the car performing strong and flawless all day. We hope you enjoy this video as much as we did making it for you!
Sept. 5th 2011
We have won the 2011 Super Special DiRT Cup!!! Thanks to our amazing sponsors and crew, the car performed flawlessly all day through the grueling DiRT Cup stages. Photos to follow in our rallycross section.
We have won the 2011 Super Special DiRT Cup!!! Thanks to our amazing sponsors and crew, the car performed flawlessly all day through the grueling DiRT Cup stages. Photos to follow in our rallycross section.
August 29th 2011
We have been extremely busy lately! Running several different disciplines all summer. Yesterday we had a test day in Kananaskis and continued to adjust the car to fantastic results! We are looking forward to getting ready for the Pacific Forest Rally at the end of Sept! More photo's and video in our Pro Rally section.
photo by Tibor Kerte
August 5th 2011
We have just received this amazing photo from professional photographer Michael Stellmach as he came out to see our team at Race City this past weekend for the Time Attack series. Also, our team has been hard at work continually honing the rally car through this series in preparation for the last 3 Pro-Rallies of the season coming up quickly. We were thrilled as we see our times improving rapidly through the improvements with a three second gain in the last session alone without changing tires or power!
June 8th 2011
Johnny Summers Racing welcomes Dallas Tiffin and our new crew Chief Andy Bruce to the team! Also check out lots of new pics and videos on our Rally and Time Attack pages!
June 7th 2011
Wow we have been busy! Testing the rally car on tarmac, starting the time attack series, prepping an MX-5 for autoslalom and starting that series, and testing the rally car on gravel, and running the Rocky Mountain Rally! We placed 3rd overall at the first autoslalom event, and we were up to 4th regionally at the RMR when fuel issues forced us to retire. We have added 3 new videos in the rally section, 2 test days, and footage from the RMR. It's going to be a great summer!
May 8th 2011
Time Attack season has started! We have made many changes to the setup, and we continue to adjust and hone as we go! Check the Time Attack section for updates!
We won the CSCC 2011 Snow Cone Challenge!!!! We are the AWD champion again this year!! We have sewn up our 1st place spot with one event still remaining in the series! Thanks to all our sponsors and our amazing crew!
February 18th 2011
The race car was on display with the VEX Performance crew at the Calgary International World Of Wheels. With roughly 30,000 people attending there was a lot of attention and a constant string of questions on the rally car. The best part was the steady string of people taking pictures of and with the car! Here are some pictures when we could get some clear shots of it, and we noticed the first close up pictures of the motor and interior of the car that we have posted here, we hope you enjoy.
New design for our racing website!
2011 is here, and we have a new design to bring the best pictures, videos, and racing information to you! We would like to start by showing you a video with our fantastic new team videographer Kirsten Bohn! or at least.... teasing you a little ;)
We have exciting new partnership news!!!
Freestyle Designs.ca has partnered with us to apply the livery (design) to our car! This high quality company designs everything from logo's, signage, business cards, websites, to vehicle graphics, tinting and rock guard! With over 20 years experience in the industry we know that you will be more than satisfied when using Freestyle for all your related needs. Check them out here.
Two New Sponsors!!
Our team has partnered with Disc Brake Australtia for the most competitive option in brake rotors! Also Rally Armor is providing our team with much needed paint protection with their new Motorsport class mudflaps, and inner wheel well liners! More information and links to these fantastic partners on our sponsors page here
Both of these fantastic products can be purchased at VEX Performance
August 9th 2010
"Karts for the Cure" was a fantastic success on the weekend raising at least 6k for Diabetes research! Thanks to Stoneset J Sums was able to be a part of this fantastic day put on by Flipp.ca. Read a quick Metro article here, there is still time to donate if you wish to support this cause. Thanks to Alan Berg racing and Craig LePan for facilitating this great day!
August 6th 2010
We have some exciting new things going on! We are in the process of partnering with Stoneset Equities and they are supporting J Sums to enter a diabetes charity karting race put on by Flipp.ca! The race will take place this Sunday August 8th at Race City Motorsport Park and you can find all information here if you would like to donate, spectate etc! For more information on Stoneset go here, and we will have more on all of this soon!
FLIPP Advertising has come onboard with us for marketing, and has designed the new look for our race car and our team! More pics and info coming soon, check out our sponsors page if you need an amazingly innovative marketing team for your business!
Not to mention the tongue-in-cheek-ness of a rally car being sponsored by a company called FLIPP, we hope it's not prophetic.
May 8th 2010
The open class rally car and the version 2 STI type ra will be on display at VEX Performance for the Western Subaru Club Super-Meet! Over 120 Subaru's and 250 people will be enjoying the community at VEX today. Stop in and see some amazing rides! 12:00pm - 5:00pm Saturday May 8th.
April 11th 2010
Another 1st place finish in the 6th event of the CSCC Rallycross series solidifies the 3rd strait win in the new car! Also posting FTD overall, J Sums gained more familiarity with the car and is getting quicker and more relaxed as this series rounds it's final 2 events! Although J Sums is currently in first place the AWD class is still really tight, stay tuned for results from the last 2 events.
April 3rd 2010
J Sums displayed a very competitive performance today at the CSCC Rally Cross series event #5, with the fastest single lap (FTD) and finishing first place! This latest finish moves him into first place for the series so far, as he continues to gain familiarity with the new car!
Photo by Ian Gulinao
March 31st 2010
We are extremely pleased to announce that we have won the very first event that the VEX Subaru Impreza Rally Car has competed in! On Sunday March 28th Johnny was seconds ahead of the competition driving the new rally car at the fourth CSCC Rallycross event of the series!! We want to thank the whole crew and all our sponsors, and we are excited for a long career for Johnny in this car!
Photographer Derrick Leung was there to catch Johnny in action, thanks for all the great pictures Derrick! A link to them all is HERE , and some will show up on our site soon too!
March 16th 2010
We drove the new car today!! oh my, it's amazing. The OS Giken differentials and clutch are other-worldy, smooth and dare I say perfect! The TechWorks built motor pulled hard and ran flawlessly, and the VEX full build was solid and strong. We have a few more things to do but the car will be ready for the March 28th CSCC Rally Cross!! Pics and Vids coming over the following weeks. Thanks to our awesome sponsors and the amazing team behind the whole project!
March 8th 2010
We have been working extremely hard to finish the new Subaru race car. The whole team has been working as much as possible to get the car ready for the upcoming races, and should be race ready very soon!
Also having run the first 2 events for the winter CSCC Rally X season, we are excited to have the new car coming soon! Enjoy the footage from the new HD in car camera!
January 15th 2010
We have exciting new sponsorship news!!!
OS Giken Sponsorship
One of the worlds leading race engineering companies has just sponsored Johnny's new rally/race car!! OS Giken has provided 2 new prototype Subaru super-lock LSD's and an OS Giken twin plate race clutch, and movement alteration kit! Johnny and VEX Performance are pumped about this new partnership!
TechWorks Engineering Sponsorship
TechWorks has built the motor for the new rally/race car! This world class engine builder has supplied their expertise and years of experience building strong and competitive motors to the new race car project. This fully built 2.0L turbo boxer motor will supply strong, reliable power for the new car.
