In a very significant turn of fortunes, the dice has rolled the wrong way for several fancied Classic Outback Trial competitors – on the very first day of competition.
Day one of seven hard and fast days of special stage rallying has seen the immaculate Nissan Navara of Queensland Tony Quinn and John Doble head the time sheets in the Allcomers competition.
Continue readingRegularity Bulletin 1, for the COT22 Regularity competitions, has been released.
It is available on COT Regularity Documents and Forms page.
Regularity Bulletin 1 includes Further Regulations and covers:
Phillip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course
The Day 2 Start Order is now available.
Philip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course
COT Competitor Bulletin 7, for the COT Classic and COT Allcomers, has been released.
It is available on the COT Rally Documents and Forms page.
Bulletin 7 includes Further Regulations and covers:
Phillip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course
Please find attached Advice to Competitors 1 for the Regularity Competition.
This advice includes average speed test details and average speed charts for Day 2. Regularity competitors will be provided a paper copy of this tomorrow at the start.
Philip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course
Just a few seconds separated the 5 fastest cars following a prologue stage in the Gunningbland Forest near Parkes, in the 2022 Classic Outback Trial. The prologue provided a preview for the 42 rally crews of what they are likely to expect in the next seven days of hard and fast competition.
Michael Valantine stormed through the 10.3 kilometres of dusty forest roads and overgrown tracks to finish the Special Stage just a single second in front of Joel Wald and Cathy Elliot. Both crews were driving Dastun Stanzas.
Continue readingThe Start Order for Day 1 is now available.
Also, Results for COT Rally Prologue and COT Regularity Shakedown are available on the COT22 Results Portal.
Philip Bernadou
Clerk of Course
The Draft List of Classes for competitors’ vehicles is now available.
Competitors are invited to comment on the list until 20:00 Saturday 26 March.
Refer SR301.3.
Philip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course
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:
Phillip Bernadou
Clerk of the Course
Motorsport Australia has issued permit 822/0204/01 for the Classic Outback Trial:
Classic Outback Trial 