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Day 3: An almost perfect day for the whole field!

With only two “Did Not Finishes” on the third day of the 2022 Classic Outback Trial, crews are coming to grips with the change in terrain from the dusty outback forests of Far-Western New South Wales to the hilly and more traditional rally country towards the east, near Orange.

Today’s two DNFs were the Triumph Stag V8 of Tony Jordan and Richard Davidson and the Holden Commodore VL of previous Classic Outback Trial winner, Matt Swan and Paul Franklin.

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Day 2: Regularity finds a new hero

The combination of Bill Gill, Kathy Gill and their Mercedes 350 SLC has again stomped on the opposition during Day 2 of the Classic Outback Trail Regularity Rally.

The Gills’ again showed a clean pair of heels to the remainder of the field over the four sections which totaled over 150 kilometers. The field included equal second placed Datsun 1600 of Paul and Mariella Kirkham and the 1972 Datsun 240Z of David and Stephen Gainer. In fourth place at the end of today is Bruce Power and Jill Robilliard, in their 1939 Chevrolet Master 85.

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Competitor Bulletin 6 now available

COT Competitor Bulletin 6, for the COT Classic, COT Allcomers and COT Regularity competitions, has been released.

It is available on both the COT Rally Documents and Forms and COT Regularity Documents and Forms pages.

Bulletin 6 covers:

  1. Rally Headquarters Emergency Number (all competitions)
  2. Competitor and Crew Briefings (all competitions)
  3. Regularity: Replacement Roadbook Pages (Regularity only)

Phillip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course