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Classic Outback Trial comes to OberonThe 2022 Classic Outback Trial was a seven-day car rally running from Parkes to Bathurst between March 27 and April 2. On April 1 the cars competed over stages in Vulcan, Essington and Lowes Mount State Forests.
Second stage was also
The final stage before crews returned to rally HQ at Bathurst was in Lowes Mount State Forest. Again, this stage would have been familiar to some competitors and contained some very deep erosion ruts to make sure that codrivers called out the cautions correctly. Fastest crews on the day were Andrew and David Travis (Nissan Gazelle), Michael and Tim Valantine (Datsun Stanza) and Darkie Barr-Smith and Rob Hunt (Ford Capri). It probably wasn't a coincidence that these three crews took out the podium places for the overall seven days, but they had been at the top all week. The next rally in the Oberon area will be the Midstate Freight Oberon Stages on April 23, Round 2 of the NSW Rally Championship. It will run on much of the same course but there might be some even faster cars there. This story appeared in the online edition of the Oberon Review on April 15, 2022 You can read the full report on the rally here. |
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