World Professional Chuckwagon Association
Sports association promoting chuckwagon racing
The World Professional Chuckwagon Association (WPCA) is an association made up of professional cowboys and business people with an interest in preserving western heritage and providing family entertainment. The WPCA promotes and presents chuckwagon racing as a professional sport throughout North America and the world. The WPCA is a close-knit community that mentors its new drivers in safety and professionalism to preserve the integrity of the WPCA and chuckwagon racing in general.
Based in Calgary, Alberta, each summer the WPCA organizes its race season, which is known as the WPCA Pro Tour. It is the most senior and highest level of professional chuckwagon racing in the world, offering the richest purses and highest tarp prices on any other recognized chuckwagon association. Also, outside of the WPCA Pro Tour, WPCA chuckwagon drivers race for ten days at the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby in Calgary, Alberta and three days at the Colonial Days Fair in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan - both of which feature not only drivers that compete on the WPCA Pro Tour, but some drivers from another chuckwagon racing circuit - the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA).
The WPCA board of directors is made up of elected officers and driver directors with a long-term goal of providing full-time employment for the chuckwagon drivers. The officers of the WPCA are a volunteer advisory group handling the day-to-day business of the association.
The WPCA Pro Tour
The 2020 WPCA Pro Tour is composed of 41 race days over 8 cities and towns at the following locations: Grande Prairie, Saskatoon, Medicine Hat, High River, Ponoka, Strathmore, Bonnyville, Dawson Creek Rocky Mountain House and Balzac. In addition, there are 10 additional race days including the Calgary Stampede, for the top wagons in the World Professional Chuckwagon Association and the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA), and the Lloydminster Colonial Days Fair, an optional meet between both associations for drivers who did not qualify for the Calgary Stampede
Popularity of WPCA Chuckwagon Racing
According to John Down, Alberta Sports Hall of Fame sportswriter for the Calgary Herald, "Chuckwagon racing is the 3rd biggest spectators sport in Alberta behind hockey and pro football." Live attendance is nearly three-quarters of a million people annually, and live radio coverage of the entire WPCA Pro Tour as well as the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby is broadcast to an estimated audience of 250,000 per night on satellite radio via Rural Radio on SiriusXM Channel 147, with several thousands more outside the listening area tuning in over the internet via the official WPCA website at halfmileofhell.com or wpca.com.
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