Friday/Saturday 25/26 March

Documentation and Scrutiny – takes place on these two days.

Saturday 26 March

Event Briefing

Rally and Regularity crews will attend their separate event briefing early afternoon and then participate in a ceremonial start for the event outside the Parkes Services Club in Short Street, Parkes.  This will enable media and publicity personnel to record images and video of each crew as they pass under the starting arch.

Shakedown / Prologue

From the ceremonial start, competitors will then travel over two ‘shakedown’ stages:

• a 20 kilometre stage for regularity;
• an 11 kilometre stage for both the rally and regularity competitions.

Welcome Function

The traditional Welcome Function will be held at the Parkes Service Club commencing at 1800 hrs.

Day 1 – Sunday 27 March

At 0900 the first Regularity crew departs the start in Church Street, Parkes.

Crews will undertake three regularity sections prior to a lunch break at Condobolin, and the another section before the first car is due in Forbes in mid-afternoon for a visit to McFeeters Auto Museum to provide an opportunity to see this fabulous collection.

Crews then drive the 35 kilometres to Parkes and are free to work on their car without time restrictions. The designated Service Area in Parkes is at the Showgrounds in an undercover area with space for all crews and their cars.

Start	0900 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	4
Total length of Regularity Stages	175 km	65, 37, 30, 41 km long
Total distance	305 km
First car due at finish of day	1430 hrs

Day 2 – Monday 28 March

Monday sees cars again commence the day in Church Street, Parkes, and again the competition will be between Parkes and Condobolin. Day 2 has three regularity sections prior to lunch (again at Condobolin) and features two Classic Outback Trial rally stages that the rally competitors used on Day 1. On the way to the fourth and last regularity section there is the ‘Utes in the Paddock’ to visit.

The first car will arrive back at Parkes at approximately 1500 hrs.

Start	0900 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	4
Total length of Regularity Stages	151 km	67, 13, 21, 50 km long
Total distance	310 km
First car due at finish of day	1500 hrs

Day 3 – Tuesday 29 March

On Tuesday crews will decamp from Parkes and relocate to Orange, 100 km away.  Regularity crews will have a 0830 start, again taking in three sections before lunch at Molong, including two shire road rally stages immediately after the rally crews. After lunch and another regularity section the first car will arrive at the Orange Showgrounds at about 1600.  Once more, servicing will be undercover, in the new agriculture shed which has a concrete floor!

Start	0830 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	4
Total length of Regularity Stages	109	24, 15, 540, 50 km long
Total distance	249
First car due at finish of day	16:00 hrs

Day 4 – Wednesday 30 March

A latish start (1030 hrs) on this short day of only 155 kilometres with yet another three sections prior to lunch, at Carcoar. Two of these sections are great regularity stages on smooth and fast closed shire roads, running again immediately behind the last of the rally crews.

A section after lunch will then take the field back to Orange.

Start	1030 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	4
Total length of Regularity Stages	75 km	34, 13, 8, 20 km long
Total distance	153 km
First car due at finish of day	1500 hrs

Day 5 – Thursday 31 March

After the Wednesday hump, crews are on the downside of the 7 day event for Thursday. Four regularity stages are planned for Thursday with a lunch break at the gold mining town of Sofala. Two sections will be conducted before lunch, one of them the fabulous ‘Razorback’ closed shire road.

After lunch there will be another two shire road sections on the way to the Motorsport Mecca of Bathurst. The end of day will be early (at 1320 hrs) and the finish will be in the paddock area at the Mt Panorama Motor Racing Circuit.

Start	1000 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	4
Total length of Regularity Stages	90 km	41, 27, 10, 7 km long
Total distance	170 km
First car due at finish of day	1320 hrs

Day 6 – Friday 1 April

Friday starts with a run around the famous Mt Panorama Motor Racing Circuit.

Then the fun continues with four regularity sections, all before lunch, using some of the twisty and undulating bitumen roads and then some fabulous rally stages in magical pine forest country to the south of Bathurst.  Lunch will be at Black Springs and the return to Mt Panorama at about 1600 hrs.

Start	1015 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	4
Total length of Regularity Stages	120 km	50, 27, 22, 23 kms long
Total distance	250 km
First car due at finish of day	1500 hrs

Day 7 – Saturday 2 April

On Saturday, the Fat Lady Sings!  And it’s not over until she does her thing.  A short day with the traditional sting in the tail! 

After taking in a regularity section in the Sunny Corner Forest crews will take on the Fat Lady Sings (a shire road special stage) and be clear of the section before the classic competition has its turn. There is no lunch break today as the finish of the Classic Outback Trial will be outside the Bathurst Regional Council offices from 1300 hrs.

The event media and publicity crews will be in action at the finish recoding every crew on their final pass under the finish arch, before the celebrations commence!

Start	0930 hrs
Number of Regularity Stages	2
Total length of Regularity Stages	41 km	24, 17 km long
Total distance	107 km
First car due at finish of day	1230 hrs

At the days end, the traditional celebration dinner and prize giving ceremonies will be held at the functions rooms above the garages along Pit Straight at the famous Mt Panorama Race Circuit, commencing at 1830 hrs