rally4life

The Rally4Life team are less than 8 months away from participating in the 2011 Dakar with Team Bowler Offroad and critical relationships are starting to fall into place for Canadian driver, Mark Jennings-Bates and UK riding legend Mick Extance.

Calgary (Alberta), May 31, 2010. Canadian rally driver Mark Jennings-Bates and co-driver Jennifer Daly took second place in the regional portion of Calgary’s Rocky Mountain Rally this past weekend.

After a busy weekend as photographer and host for the successful Runway4Life fundraiser, local rally driver Mark Jennings-Bates is ready to get back into the rally car.

Canada's top upcoming Fashion Designer's will be showcased at the Runway4Life Fashion Show this May long weekend in West Kelowna

Two wetsuit clad teammates stood briefly at the frigid water’s edge in Peachland on Sunday morning, pausing for a moment before taking deep breaths and wading in.   

The Runway4Life, a fundraiser for the Okanagan based Rally4Life project is attracting popular stars, fashion icons and musicians for it’s inaugural fashion fund raiser on May 22nd and 23rd 2010.

The Western Canadian Rally Championship season opener at Cochrane proved to be as exciting as everyone had expected with several teams facing terminal problems or long waits in snow banks, destroying their chance of victory.

Team Bowler Offroad and Rally4Life driver, Mark Jennings-Bates achieves podium finish in the Pacific Forest Rally in Canada

In preparation for the 2011 Dakar, the recently announced factory team of Mark Jennings-Bates and Mick Extance take a different approach to training and preparation.

Canadian Dakar team Rally4Life will put this offroader through its paces at the Bowler test facility in Derby, UK on 8th July.