An updated COT22 Entry list, as at 20 March, is now available on both the COT Rally Documents and Forms and COT Regularity Documents and Forms pages.
Philip Bernadou
Clerk of Course
COT22 Entry Lists available
The COT22 Entry list, as at 18 March, is now available on both the COT Rally Documents and Forms and COT Regularity Documents and Forms pages.
Philip Bernadou
Clerk of Course
COT competitors – please update your accommodation bookings
COT Event Director, Phil Bernadou, has announced the dates for the rescheduled Classic Outback Trial: 27 March to 2 April 2022.
If you have accommodation bookings for the August dates, please contact your accommodation providers and advise them of the new dates that you need.
Continue readingFifth time lucky: put 27 March to 2 April, 2022 in your calendar
Event Director, Philip Bernadou, today announced the new date for the rescheduled Classic Outback Trial: 27 March to 2 April, 2022.
He said that the event program will be exactly as planned, but rescheduled to start on Sunday March 27, 2022.
Originally calendared for August 2020, the event was postponed to November 2020, March 2021, August 2021, and now to March 2022.
“We envisage that by March/April 2022 the vaccination rate will be high enough to allow state and international borders to reopen,” Phil Bernadou, said.
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COT postponed – again!
The Classic Outback Trial has yet again been challenged by COVID-19 outbreaks around Australia and border and travel restrictions.
COT Event Director Phil Bernadou today announced that due to the restrictions the COT will be postponed again. He said that organisers are looking at options in Q1, 2022.
Continue readingClassic Outback Trial postponed to early March
Classic Outback Trial Organisers have made the decision to postpone the event to 7 – 13 March 2021.
Complications in regard to preparation and competing logistics for competitors and organisers, brought about by the emergence of the strong second wave of the Covid-19 virus, has forced the Organisers to again postpone the event from its initially revised date of 1 – 7 November 2020.
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Change of Date for COT20
The effect of COVID-19 and the nation-wide community lockdown has extended to the 2020 Classic Outback Trial.
Despite attempts to conduct the event during the original period of mid-August, the 7 day, all daylight special stage rally, plus the regularity event conducted in conjunction with the Trial, will now be held from November 1 – 7, 2020.
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Orange accommodation choices with extra space for tow vehicles
We received this useful email today from Lana at the Orange Visitor Information Centre:
“Good morning Phillip
This is a courtesy email to advise your team of some accommodation choices in Orange that have larger than average parking areas for your towing vehicles.
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A guide to the Classic Outback Trial…
…and why you should enter!
Continue readingThe Classic Outback Trial, a gravel daylight Special Stage rally for Classic and “Allcomers” rally cars will be held in Central Western Region of New South Wales. During its 7 days of competition it will overnight at the regional cities of Parkes, Orange and Bathurst.
Modern cars eligible for Classic Outback Trial Modern competition
The 7th Classic Outback Trial (COT), a bi-annual event, will be conducted between 7th and 15th August next year, and will return to mid-New South Wales after being centred at Alice Springs in the Northern Territory in 2016 and 2018.
Starting in Parkes and finishing in Bathurst, the 7 day gravel rally will be run over 33 special stages, ranging in length up to 60 kilometres. These stages will be conducted on private property, forestry and public roads.
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