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The final round of the 2025 Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC) season was held this weekend in Bancroft, Ontario. A traditional event in the Canadian rally world, the Tall Pines Rally is also known for its treacherous course, and the 2025 edition was no exception. The fast dirt competition roads were covered in many areas by a thin surface of snow or ice. It was a particularly demanding challenge for the competitors, and in the end, Simon Vincent and Hubert Gaudreau secured the victory, though not without a few tense moments, with their Subaru WRX STI.

he penultimate round of the 2025 Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC), the Rallye de Charlevoix took place this weekend and, true to tradition, drew thousands of spectators along a route combining asphalt special stages in the towns of La Malbaie and Clermont with gravel forest roads.

Just one week after clinching the title in the Nissan Sentra Cup (Canada’s national road racing championship), Simon Vincent carried his winning momentum into the weekend by dominating the stages counting toward the Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC) at Rallye Défi Petite Nation. Alongside co-driver Hubert Gaudreau, Vincent scored his second ECRC victory of 2025, following his season-opening win at Rallye Perce-Neige, behind the wheel of his Test Racing Subaru WRX STI. The duo claimed ten of the fifteen special stages that counted toward the ECRC standings.

Marking the halfway point of the 2025 Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC), the Black Bear Rally was held Saturday in the Catchacoma region of Ontario. With headquarters and stages identical to the 2024 edition, it also saw the same winners, as Ontarians Trevor Pougnet and Ryan Rouleau repeated their 2024 triumph aboard their Subaru WRX STI. The pair also claimed their second ECRC victory in the last three events.

The Canadian Association of Rallysport (CARS) is pleased to announce that effective immediately Pirelli will be supporting the 2025 Canadian Rally Championship as the “Official Tire of the Canadian Rally Championship”.

Held under beautiful, fully summery weather and cheered on by thousands of spectators in the special stages, the Rallye International Baie-des-Chaleurs in Gaspesia, Quebec, hosted the third round of the 2025 Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC) this weekend. Using only Saturday’s route, the ECRC witnessed a historic first as Quebec driver Mikael Arsenault and his French co-driver Layla Zigby claimed overall victory in their Peugeot 208 Rally4. After winning the two-wheel drive standings in the season opener at Rallye Perce-Neige, the duo has now become the first team to win an overall ECRC event with a two-wheel drive car, on a rally contested entirely on gravel and dirt roads.

Originally scheduled for April 5 but postponed due to weather issues, the Rally of the Voyageurs took place this Saturday in the Catchacoma region of Ontario. It served as the second round of the 2025 Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC), a series celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and, for the first time ever, welcoming the Voyageurs rally; a revived event that was once among the most hotly contested rallies in Eastern Ontario.

This year, the Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC) celebrates ten years since its inception. This is therefore the eleventh season and, as is customary, it begins in the Upper Gatineau region of Quebec with the presentation of the Rallye Perce-Neige, in Maniwaki. Always a spectacular event for the throngs of fans along the course (despite the frigid temperatures), who admire the rally cars tackle the ice and snow at high speed.

This weekend, as part of Ontario’s traditional Tall Pines Rally, the 2024 season of the Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC) concluded. Contested on completely dry gravel roads, which have often been covered in tricky snow and ice in past years, the event was dominated by Ontarian Jonathan Drake and his co-driver Ian Lantz, in a Subaru WRX STI. In 2-wheel drive, Quebecker Nicolas Laverdière, co-driven by Frenchman Nicolas Fouteret in a Ford Fiesta, earned his third consecutive victory, clinching the 2WD championship title. Vincent Lalande, the young prodigy of 16 years of age who was absent from competition at this final round, was crowned champion in the season’s overall standings.

This past weekend, the Eastern Canadian Rally Championship (ECRC) presented the Rallye de Charlevoix, the penultimate round of its 2024 season. Contested under sunny skies with the prestigious Manoir Richelieu in La Malbaie as its headquarters, the event took place over two days of competition and was filled with twists and turns in front of a once again very large crowd. By Sunday’s finish, it was the young 16-year-old prodigy Vincent Lalande, co-driven by Amélie Bélanger, who recorded his third victory of the season. Lalande thus took over the lead in the championship with his Subaru WRX STI, while in the 2-wheel drive class, Nicolas Laverdière, co-driven by Frenchman Nicolas Fouteret, dominated the event with his Ford Fiesta.