NSW State Novice Rally Championships
1995 Myself and navigator Ron Barkess competed in the NSW State Novice Rally Championships. Ron and I finishing the series in 3rd outright.
We had a serious go from the first event, fighting for championship lead over the 7 event series.
During the year after fighting for the lead of the championship I had learned that I was actually the only "novice" as this was my only 2nd year of actual rallying... all the other competitors where class as "novice" by the points system but had all done the championship multiple times over many years. So we did quite well really.
Greg Crossingham Memorial Rally
September '95 the Greg Crossingham Memorial Rally, Taree NSW. This event was a disaster. Ron and I being car 17 on the road, we were the first Grade5 (Novice) team. Every car on the road ahead of us had an "experience" on the left turn and some where traveling so quick they missed that the road actually went left. The a corner that was not called in the Road Book and the only indicator that you would have missed it was the next call was a creek crossing.
Big Off
The corner was after a straight over a easy crest, I was in top gear - at the crest the tree line was still straight-on and going slightly right, so from memory I dropped back to 4th (still probably 100km/h) but the main road went left and at this speed I saw this. I started to turn in but was still too fast - we hit the gutter - air bourn - tree. Well at least no one else after us could hit it....
Kempsey MotoKahan
MotoKhana at Kempsey. The setup of the car was not as good as I expected, I would have been better to put the original suspention in to give a better turn-in. But fun was had.
Tanban State Forest Test
Tanban State Forest, Kempsey NSW. This was a staged photo shoot, my father took a series of photo's while I played with the setup. Looking at the attitude of the car you can tell I'm having a go, he was brave the corner speed I was getting was not leaving much room for error.