Image courtesy of Jerry Winker
Inducted 1998 – Competitor – Rally Racing
Stock cars, ice racers, rally cars and production sedans, Tom Jones has driven them all. He was Canada’s first FIA-graded rally driver, competing in a number of Shell 4000s and winning the 1968 Carreras 1000 Rally in Jamaica and the 1969 Press On Regardless Rally in Michigan. Between 1973 and 1979, he dominated the International Ice Racing Circuit, before turning to GT-1 and GT-2 sedan racing. He won a number of Prairie Region championships, several outright Canadian titles and a string of races south of the border. In1982, he won all five races in the Molyslip Challenge series.