Andrew Comrie-Picard

Andrew Comrie-Picard in-car hosting in 2015 Ford F-150

(from left) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Andrew Comrie-Picard, and Greg Biffle test Comrie-Picard's rally car at Team O'Neil Rally School 2014

Andrew Comrie-Picard in rally car during the 2014 Rally in the 100 Acre Wood

Andrew Comrie-Picard (born April 28, 1971) is a Canadian race car driver, X Games athlete, stuntman, and TV personality.^[1] In 2003 he left a career as a young New York City entertainment lawyer to pursue a career in race driving.^[2] He has since won international and American championships, hosted and produced internationally-distributed automotive TV shows, and designed, coordinated, and driven stunts in feature film and television.^[3]

Racing:

Comrie-Picard has competed at the top levels of Pro Rally Racing (driving for Mitsubishi,^[4] Toyota, and Ford), Pro Drifting (Dodge Viper),^[5] desert off-road racing (two-time Baja1000 class winner), Short Course off-road,^[6] Hillclimb (Pikes Peak International Hillclimb record-holder), and Endurance circuit racing. He is a 5-time X Games athlete in Rally Car Racing and Rallycross. At X Games 16 he won the bronze medal in Rally Car Racing.^[7] He won the 2009 North American Rally Cup championship overall in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX and in 2014 the John Woodner Cup for First Overall in the American 2WD Championship. He is one of the four drivers (with Tanner Foust, Travis Pastrana, and Ken Block) to compete at the first five X Games where Rally Car Racing was featured: X Games 12 (2006), X Games 13 (2007), X Games 14 (2008), X Games 15 (2009), and X Games 16 (2010)

Stunts:

Comrie-Picard was a consulting producer and stunt coordinator in several seasons of Top Gear USA on the History Channel and appears as a stunt driver in recent Tyler Perry, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlize Theron, Deadpool, and Fast and Furious films. On television he designed and tested an extreme stunt course for Netflix Hyperdrive, and coached competitors from around the world in their attempts to complete it. He has stunt coordinated Fastest Car (Netflix), and has performed stunts in a number of commercials and television shows including NCIS New Orleans, in which he doubled Scott Bakula.^[8]

TV Hosting:

His acting and television hosting centers on automobiles: he has co-hosted the Canadian Rally Championship on the CHUM and A-Channel networks, Targa Newfoundland on SpeedTV and Rogers Cable, hosted the reality show "War of the Wheels" on Global, and was an "extreme auto" correspondent for The New Drivers' Seat TV on CHUM and A-Channel. He co-hosted with car designer Chip Foose and fabricator Lou Santiago a show for the Discovery Channel called "Ultimate Car Buildoff". In 2011, Comrie-Picard hosted a special called BattleXross on SpeedTV in which he sets up a stunt course for two top extreme drivers to compete on. In 2013 he hosted a series of Yahoo!Autos videos,^[9] and in 2014 he hosted a GranTurismo6 launch segment.^[10] He has hosted Ford's Truth About Trucks video series 2014–2021. In 2017, his auto build/stunt show "Car Saviors" aired on Discovery Channel; the pilot episode saw Comrie-Picard drift a 1977 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow that he and his co-host Brian Scotto had fitted with a new Mopar Hemi engine and other performance upgrades.

Trivia:

-He has five university degrees, including an M.A. from Trinity College, Oxford, a B.A. from The University of Trinity College (University of Toronto), and MBA and LL.B. (law) degrees from McGill University.

-He was a competitive rower at both Oxford and McGill, and a member of the Oxford Stunt Factory.

-In 1992 Comrie-Picard was appointed the Scribe, or head, of the secretive Episkopon society at Trinity College, Toronto. Comrie-Picard took the society underground by disassociating with the college, after the administration demanded that Episkopon develop a constitution and Comrie-Picard refused. He told the Canadian national Globe and Mail newspaper, "It's satire, it's humour. It doesn't need a constitution and it doesn't need to be approved."^[11]

-He is a wine enthusiast who worked in Bordeaux, France, ran the wine societies at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, and competed on the Oxford University Blind Winetasting team.

-He is a member of the international GoodGear expedition that will attempt to circumnavigate the globe with wheeled and amphibious vehicles without leaving the Earth's surface, passing through both poles, starting in 2022. The aim of the expedition is to promote and utilize positive new technologies to advance the understanding of, and contribute to the dataset for, responsible management of the planet

-In 2017 he founded ZipTire in Los Angeles, an innovative service business that brings vans containing fully-equipped tire stores to customers' homes or places of work

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

Racing detail: Overall Rally results of note: Wins at 2006 Sno*Drift Rally in Michigan,^[12] 2007 Rallye Perce-Neige in Quebec,^[13] 2009 Rally Colorado, 2010 Oregon Trail Rally. Won the Targa Newfoundland road rally in the competition debut of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X (2008) and again in 2012. In 2010 at Pikes Peak crashed at Engineer's Corner.^[14] In 2011, after several seasons of rallying in the top-level AWD category, Comrie-Picard returned to rally competition in the 2WD category, campaigning a manufacturer-backed 2011 Scion xD in selected Rally America events. He also drove a Mark IV Toyota Supra to second place in the Modern division at Targa Newfoundland, after coming in sixth in the same car in 2010. He competed on the Baja 1000 desert race in 2011 and 2013 in a Class 10 Baja Challenge buggy for BFGoodrich; he and his team won the class in 2013. In 2012 and 2013 he continued to drive for Scion in Rally America competition,^[15] finishing 2nd in the 2WD category championship in both seasons. He also competed in the 2012 and 2013 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb with a version of the Scion xD. Coming off the successful 3-year development program with the Scion Rally Team, in January 2014 "ACP" moved over to Ford Racing and Team O'Neil, driving a Ford Fiesta ST developed by Team O'Neil and M-Sport to compete for the 2014 Rally America 2WD Championship.^[16] In July 2014, he secured the 2014 Rally America 2WD Championship with two events remaining, and in the 2014 season took five firsts, two seconds, and a third. He also secured seventeen consecutive podiums 2012–2014, and for only the second time in a decade of Rally America history, put a 2wd car on the overall national podium.^[17] In July 2017, Andrew Comrie-Picard returned to rally competition in the American Rally Association series New England Forest Rally, for the gravel rally debut of the Ford Focus RS developed by Team O'Neil. The new car, which had earlier competed for the first time at the Mount Washington Hill Climb, placed first in Production4WD class and fourth overall.^[18]

Canadian Rally Championship Results[]

He currently ranks 21st in lifetime points, with 1340pts.^[19]

Complete Rally America results[]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andrew Comrie-Picard.

• Official website