A charity run to help the victims of the people of Japan in the aftermath of the recent tsunami has raised more than 1000 Euros.
Drivers, co-drivers and teams from the Intercontinental Rally Challenge plus members of the media and the IRC and Rally Islas Canarias organising teams each paid five Euros to take part in the run on the Las Canteras beach prior to the start of the island event. Additional donations were received from Peugeot Sport and Skoda UK Motorsport. The money was presented to the Red Cross.
“Every member of the IRC community has been deeply saddened by the events in Japan during the last month and all our thoughts remain with the Japanese people at this time,” said Xavier Gavory, the IRC General Co-ordinator. “With this initiative we were able to show our support and our full solidarity to Japan.”
IRC frontrunner Andreas Mikkelsen, who drives a Skoda UK Fabia S2000 in the series, won the race. “It was the least we could do to try and help and it’s great everyone got together in this way,” said Mikkelsen.
As a show of further support all IRC cars carried Save Japan windscreen strips during the two-day rally.