Sno*Drift is a rally racing event held in Montmorency County, Michigan, annually, with headquarters in Atlanta, Michigan. The event is currently the first Rally America National Rally Championship event of the season. Currently the event is organized into three distinct rallies: the national championship event covering both days of rallying, and two regional rally events each covering one of the two days. Competitors may be entered in any or all of these events simultaneously. Sno*Drift is a winter rally, run primarily on snow-covered gravel surface roads, and is usually held in January. The winners of the 2009 Sno*Drift Rally were Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom of Maryland, driving a Subaru Impreza WRX STI. This team also won the event in 2007, but in 2008, they were leading but did not finish the event as they encountered a deer on the next to last stage. History A national event in the 1970s and 1980s Sno*Drift was first held in 1973 as a National event as part of the SCCA Performance Rally series near Grayling, Michigan. Chaired by Tim Steiner, the event was won by the team of Erhard Dahm and John Campbell driving a Jeep Wagoneer, with Gene Henderson and Ken Pogue finished 2nd in a similar vehicle. Scott Harvey and Tom King placed third in a Dodge Colt. Of the 38 teams starting the event, 24 finished. The event was repeated the next year with Henderson and Pogue rising to win over Dahm with new co-driver Tom Grimshaw. Third was again captured by Harvey, who also had a new co-driver (Wayne Zitkus). The final Sno*Drift of the period was held in 1975, and was won by Harvey and Zitkus, this time with a Dodge Ramcharger, while second place was claimed by Tom Tolles and Virginia Reese in a Volvo 122S and third by Bob Hourihan and Doug Shepherd, also in a Volvo 122S. Sno*Drift was not held again until 1979 when it again became a national event for the SCCA. This running saw 48 teams enter, of whom 31 finished. Taisto Heinonen and Tom Burgess won the event in a Toyota Celica GT while Doug Leverton and Greg Wilkinson placed second in their Datsun 510 and Scott Harvey and Randy Graves finished third in a Dodge Aspen. 46 teams entered the 1980 event, while only 24 finished. Overall winners were Guy Light and Jim Brandt in a Jeep CJ-7, followed