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World Professional Standings
2009 - 19th
2008 - 13th
2007 - 22nd
2006 - 12th
2005 - 24th
2004 - 13th
2003 - 14th
Personal Information
Tyler Helmig is a World Champion chuckwagon driver who will be retiring from chuckwagon racing after making his final appearance as a driver at the 2010 Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby. In 2009, his final full season on the WPCA Dodge Pro Tour, Tyler qualified for the Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby's sudden death championship final heat for the 2nd time in his career, and placed in the top ten overall at the Ponoka Stampede, Calgary Stampede and the Strathmore Heritage Days Stampede. He posted 17 top ten runs, including 5 runs that placed inside the top five. Tyler was the 2002 World Champion Chuckwagon Driver and is a former Champion of the Klondike Chuckwagon Derby in Edmonton. Tyler was the WPCA's Top Rookie Driver in 1988, received the WPCA's Most Improved Chuckwagon Outfit Award in 1994, and had a horse named to the WPCA's Equine Outfit of Excellence in 2005. Tyler is the only man in history to have won both the World Chuckwagon Championship and the World Pony Chuckwagon Championship. When he is not racing chuckwagons, Tyler enjoys ski-dooing, team roping & hockey. The son of former Canadian Wild Horse Racing Champion Glen Helmig and son-in-law of rodeo stock contracting legend Harvey Northcott, Tyler, his wife Cindy and their son Tyce make their home in Leduc, Alberta.
Major Awards And Victories
- 1988: WPCA Top Rookie Driver
- 1994: WPCA Most Improved Chuckwagon Outfit
- 1999: Klondike Chuckwagon Derby
- 2002: WORLD CHAMPION CHUCKWAGON DRIVER
- 2005: WPCA Equine Award Of Excellence - "ICE" - Champion Outriding Horse
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