3rd place finish for JK Motorsports

Calgary, AB -- JK Motorsports Rally Team completes the Rocky Mountain Rally located near Calgary, AB in 1 hour, 45 min, 33 seconds, placing them in 3rd place in Production class. The Calgary based duo of Janusz Komorowski and Thomas Krog competed against some of the best production drivers in Canada and found themselves in the lead of the class after 3 stages. The class lead shifted to Joe Battrick of Vancouver for four stages before returning to Komorowski.

On stage 9, Komorowski cought a sharp stone with the right front tire on a fast hairpin corner resulting in a detrimental flat tire. Hoping the tire would last until the end of the stage, Komorowski continued on the flat to lose as little time as possible. Eventually the tire delaminated causing substantial body damage to the team's Mitsubishi Eclipse. Having to stop nonetheless, resulting in losing in excess of 4 minutes.

"The four minutes we lost changing the tire in stage were nearly impossible to get back," commented Komorowski, "since we were already running neck-in-neck with the other P4 teams." Over the course of the following 5 stages, Komorowski and Krog managed to beat their competitors once more but this effort was too small to cause a change in the final standings.

The next event for the JK Motorsports Rally Team is the Mountain Trials Rally in Merritt, BC a Western Canadian Regional event. The next Canadian National rally is the Rallye Baie des Chaleurs on the Gaspé peninsula in Quebec.

JK Motorsports is sponsored by SUM Canada Enterprises LTD and TemproTec Inc, and is supported by VP Racing Fuels, Varsity Chrysler Dodge.

Lancaster, CA -- JK Motorsports Rally Team driver Janusz Komorowski completes the Rim of the World Rally, one of the toughest and roughest pro rally events in North America. Janusz and his co-driver David Hackett completed the gruelling course located near Lancaster,

California in 2 hours 42 minutes, and finished in 14th place overall while 7th in class. Friday's night stages proved to be a good warm-up for the new pair as these two rallists have never competed together before.

Tarmac section were a whole other ball game. As hanging dust was not a problem, it was possible for the team to show their competitive edge.Rim's reputation of being a car breaker did not go unnoticed by the team as

Nursing the car through to the end of the 10th stage resulted in another slow time since the service pit stop followed the stage. "We broke off a mounting bolt for the rear shock absorber after a series of jumps on stage 9,"

claimed David Hackett, "but fortunately between stage 9 and 10 we came upon a village with helpful residents who happened to have the correct size bolt and washer." The incident also punctured a brake line causing the brake fluid to drain reducing Komorowski's ability to slow the car before corners.

Having finished this event in one piece Komorowski sais that he enjoyed it imensly and is ready to come back next year. Servicing for the JK Motorsports Rally Team at the Rim of the World Rally was provided by

Canadian Champion Patrick "Rocket" Richard's team of expert mechanics who also prepared Richard's Rim winning Subaru WRX Group N car.

The next event for the JK Motorsports Rally Team and their Production class Mitsubishi Eclipse rally car is the Rocky Mountain Rally in Calgary on May 27-28, 2004. The rally car will also be on display at the V8Less Autoshow on May 15.

JK Motorsports is sponsored by Sum Canada Enterprises LTD, TemproTec Inc., and suppored by VP Racing Fuels, Varsity Chrysler Dodge and 3M Trim-Line Calgary.

JK Motorsports Rally Team Finishes 3rd in Oregon

Hillsboro, OR -- JK Motorsports rally team has finished the 2004 SCCA Oregon Trail Pro Rally in 3rd place in Production GT, a class for unmodified vehicles with engine

During Saturday's stages, the team members had the opportunity to become better aquainted with each others styles as Scott Beckwith had not competed with the JK Motorsports team before. "Resolving our communication and trust issues took us most of the day," said Beckwith.

Hillsboro, OR -- JK Motorsports Rally Team will be competing in the 2004 Oregon Train Pro Rally in production GT class. The Calgary based rally team has committed to this out of championship event to obtain more experience with the use of Jemba notes and to test suspension and engine setups before the Rocky Mountain Rally in Calgary.

Joining the team for the Oregon rally will be Australian co-driver Scott Beckwith. Beckwith, having competed in Australia, United States and at WRC events has considerable experience with pace noting and other forms of road description. Beckwith is the 2003 State Formula 2 and P3 Co-driving champion.

Beckwith will be competing this weekend alongside the defending 3-time Western Canada Rally Champion, Janusz Komorowski, in a production class Mitsubishi Eclipse. The Calgary rally driver has captured the 2003 WCRC title despite the mid-season theft of his previous rally car.

The Oregon Trail Pro Rally is the second round of the current seasons SCCA Pro Rally Championship presented by Hot Wheels® and at takes place in the vicinity of Hillsboro, OR. The rally has a start list of 64 teams from around North America competing in 2 wheel-drive, and all-wheel-drive categories including the internationally recognized Group N class.

For JK Motorsports, the Oregon rally is an opportunity to gain experience in competing with a highly restricted production car. Shod on Yokohama tires, the team will also make adjustments to suspension, alignment, and turbo mapping to maximize the car's limited abilities. Familiarization with the Jemba stage noting system, a computerized method of creating road notes, is also high on the list of priorities as the same system will be used at the Rocky Mountain Rally in late May. The system uses force feedback and g-force analysis hardware/software to generate exact descriptions of turns, bends, hairpins and straightaways, which the co-driver reads to the driver during competition allowing for safer and faster driving.

Live results of the Oregon Trail Pro Rally will be available online at http://www.oregontrailrally.com/ . For more information about the JK Motorsports Rally Team, see the team home page at http://www.jkmrallyteam.com.

JK Motorsports is sponsored by Sum Canada Enterprises LTD, TemproTec Inc, VP Racing Fuels, and supported by Varsity Chrysler and 3M Trim-Line Calgary.

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For more information please contact:
Janusz Komorowski Jr.
jkmotorsports@shaw.ca
(403) 818-9950

JK Motorsports finish 4th in season opener.

Cochrane, AB -- The JK Motorsports Rally Team finished the past weekend's annual Cochrane Rally of the Ranchlands in a respectable fourth place overall and second in production class. Despite missing the podium by a mere second, both the crew and management are quite pleased with the event results.

The 2004 Cochrane rally was the first regional event in North America to permit the rally crews to use studed tires and write their own pace notes. Pace notes are detailed instructions created by the driver/co-driver pair ahead of the rally describing the road conditions, type and direction of turns and any road obstacles.

Regarding pace notes JK Motorsports driver Janusz Komorowski Jr. had this to say, "it was a difficult and frustrating experience to write pace notes for the first time. We did go through a short training session ahead of time, but the pace noting system is quite involved and its difficult to gauge the grades of corners without prior pace noting experience."

©Andy Hayward

©Andy Hayward

The 2004 Rally Season Has Begun