It’s been a long haul this pre-season firming up the schedule but we finally have agreements in place for both Vernon and Kelowna. Sadly, this will be our last year at Vernon Kal Tire Place and we were offered a very limited selection of dates with no dates available until late May. Similarly, the Okanagan College KLO lot is not available until May due to construction in other areas of the campus necessitating the concentration of parking into the lot we use for Autocross. You should also be aware that the Kelowna lot is doubtful for 2026 and we are taking steps to have an alternate lot or lots available should this come to fruition.
The good news is that we have a 22 days of autocross for the 2025 season. In Kelowna we’ll host 13 club championship events plus one autocross training session. Of those 13 events, 11 will be on Friday evenings and two will be full-day Sunday events on May 25 and September 7. The first Kelowna event is Friday, May 2 followed by our Introduction to Autocross on Saturday, May 3.
Vernon will host 6 full-day events as part of the club championship plus the 2-day Eliminator on September 20-21. The first Vernon event will be a 2-day weekend competition on May 31 and June 1.
For those who attended and enthusiastically endorsed last year’s Merritt Airport event, we’ve tried to work around VCMC’s Merritt schedule which includes a yet-to-be-confirmed Canadian National Autoslalom Championship on September 13-14.
Finally, we are working on the possibility of hosting one or two events at an alternate site in April so stay tuned.