Due to space limitations in the event’s media releases, the complete list of winners in the recent successful revival of the “on time all the time” sampaguita rally by way of the 2010 STV Auto Rally Corporate Challenge have not been published. This week allow me to give you the complete roaster.
Grand Team Champion – Ford-Mazda Team
1st Runner-up – UMC-Nissan Team
2nd Runner-up – Motor Image-Subaru Team
3rd Runner-up – Mitsubishi Team
Tandem Champion – Elbert Cuenca / Raul Ylanan (Subaru)
1st Runner-up – Rupert Guerra/Rodrigo Almendral (Mitsubishi)
2nd Runner-up – Christopher Kho/Jeff Reyes (Ford-Mazda)
3rd Runner-up – Rachelle Aquilizan/Andy Leuterio (UMC-Nissan)
Most Precise Tandem Award – this was given to Jason Gallardo/Ace Valenzuela of the Ford-Mazda Team for having registered the most precise time in a checkpoint.
Special Stage Winners (Pocholo Ramirez Subic Int’l Raceway)
1st Place – Honda Team
2nd Place – Isuzu Team
3rd Place – Mitsubishi Team
4th Place – CATS Motors-Mercedes-Benz/Chrysler Team
Special Stage Tandem Winners
1st Place – Jeffrey de Leon/Mark Rosca (Honda Team)
2nd Place – Nomer Yuson/Eric Valera (Motor Image Team)
3rd Place – Tessa Salazar/Aries Espinosa (CATS Motors Team)
4th Place – Angelo Puyat/Bibai Gaisano (CATS Motors Team)
Stage Winners
Stage 1 – Motor Image-Subaru Team (Juny Binamira / Hernan Mapua)
Stage 2 – Hyundai Team (Mike Reyes / Art Guevara)
Stage 3 – Mitsubishi Team (Leo Samonte / Alexis Aspillera)
Stage 4 – Ford-Mazda Team (Jason Gallardo / Ace Valenzuela)
Stage 5 – Ford-Mazda Team (Jason Gallardo / Ace Valenzuela)
Stage 6 – Motor Image-Subaru Team (Elbert Cueca / Raul Ylanan)
Stage 7 – Motor-Image-Subaru Team (Raffy David / Vince Tagle)
Stage 8 – Mitsubishi Team (Froy Dytianquin / Arlan Reyes)
Stage 9 – Ford-Mazda (Sebastian Santiago III / Juan Sebastian Santiago)
Stage 10 – PGA Cars-Audi-Porsche Team (Mark Tan / Jeff Yeo)
Stage 11 – Honda Team (Nicolo Fernandez / Honrado Fernandez)
Stage 12 – Ford-Mazda Team (Christopher Kho / Jeff Reyes)
Stage 13 – UMC-Nissan Team (Allan Sevilla / Eric Tipan)
As many of the winners say,” The award is just the bonus of the competition, just by participating and finishing the rally already makes all of us winners – all part of the historical successful revival of the “on time all the time” sampaguita rally.”
Even at this early time, plans are already being laid-out for next year’s staging – a combined Subic/Clark “shotgun start” 2011 STV Auto Rally Corporate Challenge. Watch out for it.
2010 Trans Sport Show
This year’s staging is just a year short of two decades of exciting display of this yearly congregation of the best looking automobiles, whether vintage, classic or modern.
Scheduled on April 21st up to the 25th at its usual venue, Megatrade Halls 1-3 of SM Megamall, Ms. Sophie Delos Santos, president of Tradeshow International, Inc. (TSI) organizers/managers of top-notched events like the bi-annual gun shows, CAMPI’s motor show, to name some, and likewise the 2010 Trans Sport Show considers this year’s presentation as a jump-off point for the celebration of Trans Sports Show’s 20th year in 2011.
In an intimate calorie-laden and meat-galore media luncheon at the Circles of the ShangriLa-Makati, Sophie announced the full support of Caltex with Techron and the addition of two new awards – the Best of Show Contemporary and the Best of Show Nostalgic, in anticipation of 2011’s most awaited launch of the 1st Philippine Nostalgic Motor Show and the prestigious Manila Sports Club Concours D’Elegance.
“As we have been announcing since the start of 2010, we are introducing the new additions to the Trans Sport Show this year in preparation for the more intensive competition we will be having next year” explains the lovely motor show events veteran, Sophie Delos Santos.
The 2010 Trans Sport Show will also be honoring it most regular participants through the 19 years for their loyalty and perseverance in joining the competition year after year.
Electronic presentation and contests await students
As we meticulously prepare the blueprints for the 2010 Young Street Smarts Club School Tour, we have decided to rely on a lot of electronic aids to make the audio/visual presentations and contests for the students as easily understandable, exciting and entertaining as possible.
The objective of the school tour is to further promote the advocacy of road safety education, which is shared by this column and the TV show Motoring Today, the longest-running motoring program on Philippine television. It’s actually a spin-off from a new segment of the TV show titled “Motoring Today’s Young Street Smarts Club”, which only started this year with its initial focus on teaching the meaning of very common road and street signs that many are clueless about. Hosted by my daughter Kristine, or “Suzy” of the very popular Magic 89.9 FM music station, the idea of zeroing on the youth gave birth to the school tour. She has taken up the advocacy herself and conceived the idea of a school tour to have a much closer rapport with the students for a more effective manner of educating them to become safe and responsible road users as pedestrians, commuters, bikers or future drivers. What actually prompted my daughter to be involved in the advocacy (aside from having grown up in an environment that has always been in the midst of road safety concerns and issues, in which her father has been deeply immersed ever since she could remember) were the alarming world-wide statistics of road accident victims being children.
The 2010 “school tour” starts next school year from July to October. It is targeting 2nd and 3rd year high school students. A maximum 2-hour program is being prepared and this includes some easy to understand audio/visual presentations that would center on three very important topics that the public should learn early in life, namely; a) the meaning of traffic signs, b) rules of right of way and c) road courtesy as a way of life. To find out how much has been absorbed from the audio/visuals, a series of tests in the form of exciting contests that would entail some electronic aids and visuals shall be conducted. The modern youth needs some modern approaches to attract their attention.
This project, which we expect to go nationwide, would not run on mere good intentions alone. I have been and would be calling on some friends for their support. There are quite a number of requirements in order to pull this through – well-trained personnel, audio/visual equipment, transport, etc., to name a few. The stakeholders here are universal – anybody who has children, young nephews and nieces, grandchildren, children of friends and the children of the world who, one time or another, venture to the streets. They should be kept safe while on the road by educating them and all those around them about road safety.
The appeal for support is not only for business companies’ corporate social responsibility but also for their executive’s moral responsibility to keep the children safe while on the road.
Happy Motoring!!!
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