2013 Australian Rally Championship

2013 Australian Rally season
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The 2013 East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship is the 46th season of the Australian Rally Championship, one of the worlds oldest continuously run rally championships. The season began 1 March at the newly revived National Capital Rally, and is scheduled to end 16 November at Rally Victoria, after six events.

The championship incorporates two international events, Round 5 is a World Rally Championship event, Rally Australia, while Round 4, the International Rally of Queensland is a round of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.

Each domestic rally is contested over two heats, with three or four components to the two international events.^[1]

With the championship now awarded specifically to two-wheel-drive cars exclusively has seen an influx of European and Asian Super 2000 and Super 1600 cars as well as a revival of older rear-wheel-drive performance cars. While most of the top drivers have moved out of the Mitsubishi Lancer and Subaru Impreza 4WD turbos, they remain competitive with reigning Western Australian rally champion Alex Stone winning a heat at the Forest Rally.

Between Honda Jazz driver Eli Evans and Renault Clio driver Scott Peddar have dominated the 2013 season, winning all bar one heat and taking eleven of the 18 top three positions. Evans leads the championship by 29 points over Peddar. Peddar's team mate Tom Wilde is 88 points behind Evans in third. Mazda 2 driver Brendan Reeves, who is also racing in the NACAM Rally Championship is fourth a distant 119 points from Peddar. Proving the flexibility of the new regulations, Jack Monkhouse is fifth in the championship driving a 1999 model Nissan Silvia.

Race calendar and results

The 2013 Australian Rally Championship is as follows:^[2]

Round	Rally name		Podium finishers				Statistics
			Rank	Driver	Car	Time	Stages	Length	Starters	Finishers
1	National Capital Rally	Heat 1 (1–2 March)[3]	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	47:58.0	6	96.06 km	66	54
			2	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	48:06.1
			3	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	48:48.5
		Heat 2 (3 March)[4]	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	58:12.2	7	95.34 km	65	47
			2	John Mitchell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	58:24.7
			3	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	58:45.3
2	Quit Forest Rally	Heat 1 (5–6 April)[5]	1	Alex Stone	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	1:09:08.3	10	105.89 km	47	35
			2	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	1:10:47.2
			3	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	1:11:31.9
		Heat 2 (7 April)[6]	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:04:42.5	9	104.17 km	41	27
			2	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	1:05:01.5
			3	Leigh Hynes	Subaru Impreza WRX	1:05:18.8
3	Scouts Rally SA	Heat 1 (24–25 May)[7]	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	57:53.6	11	117.05 km	51	42
			2	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	58:12.3
			3	Declan Dwyer	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	58:13.3
		Heat 2 (26 May)[8]	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	50:39.3	7	93.81 km	44	36
			2	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	50:57.2
			3	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	51:13.4
4	International Rally of Queensland	Heat 1 (12–13 July)	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	1:02:30.5	12	111.24 km	74	53
			2	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:02:54.8
			3	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	1:03:55.4
		Heat 2 (14 July)	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	1:05:20.5	9	102.82 km	64	48
			2	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	1:06:42.2
			3	Steven Shepheard	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	1:07:06.7
		Overall (12–14 July)[9]	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	2:07:51.0	21	214.06 km	74	48
			2	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	2:10:37.6
			3	John Mitchell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	2:12:26.0
5	Rally Australia	Heat 1 (12–13 September)	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	49:35.6	9	94.54 km	69	64
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	50:06.1
			3	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	50:19.8
		Heat 2 (14 September)	1	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:25:00.7	6	132.68 km	66	57
			2	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	1:25:02.2
			3	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	1:25:50.4
		Heat 3 (15 September)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	36:25.0	3	62.57 km	62	47
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	36:34.7
			3	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	36:47.6
		Overall (12–15 September)	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	2:51:25.4	18	289.79 km	69	47
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	2:51:41.5
			3	Tom Wilde	Renault Clio R3	2:53:45.2
6	Rally Victoria	Heat 1 (15 November)	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	41:13.3	4	55.20 km	37	34
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	41:16.5
			3	Richie Dalton	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	41:17.8
		Heat 2 (16 November)	1	Eli Evans	Honda Jazz	1:36:13.3	7	143.20 km	64	56
			2	John Mitchell	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	1:36:40.1
			3	Richie Dalton	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	1:36:46.0

Championship standings

The 2013 Australian Rally Championship points are as follows:^[10]

Australian Championship

Position Driver Vehicle Capital Forest SA Queensland Australia Victoria Total H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 Overall H1 H2 H3 Overall H1 H2 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 2 1 ^4 1 2 ^5 1 1 ^6 1 1 1 ^1 1 2 3 1 ^6 1 1 ^6 508 2 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 3 11 2 3 5 4 ^1 3 2 2 ^5 3 3 4 3 3 3 326 3 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 1 2 3 1 ^2 2 2 2 7 5 ^1 10 4 1 5 ^1 Ret Ret ^1 326 4 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 Ret 9 ^5 4 6 ^3 3 3 6 Ret Ret ^3 2 1 2 2 2 2 293 5 Mark Pedder Honda Jazz 6 4 Ret Ret 6 5 4 3 3 6 5 5 4 4 Ret 230 6 Michael Patton Volkswagen Polo 8 7 7 Ret Ret DNS 7 5 6 9 9 8 6 5 5 178 7 Adrian Coppin Ford Fiesta R2 9 8 8 Ret 9 8 8 6 7 11 8 9 7 152 8 Nicholas Box Holden VK Commodore Nissan 370Z 11 10 Ret 5 14 Ret 5 4 4 8 7 Ret Ret 125 9 Jack Monkhouse Nissan Silvia 5 3 ^1 5 7 11 Ret ^3 Ret Ret Ret 5 Ret Ret Ret ^3 122 10 Michael Boaden Volkswagen Polo Ret 5 6 4 7 6 Ret DNS Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 119 11 Steven Mackenzie Ford Fiesta ST 7 6 8 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret 6 6 8 Ret Ret 106 12 Glen Raymond Mazda RX-7 7 10 7 9 6 4 84 13 Will Orders Nissan Silvia 4 Ret Ret Ret 4 Ret 52

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (DNF) Black Excluded (EX) Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Cancelled (C) Blank Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Four wheel drive class

Position Driver Vehicle Capital Forest SA Queensland Australia Victoria Total H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 Overall H1 H2 H3 Overall H1 H2 1 John Mitchell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII Ret 1 ^1 1 1 1 ^1 1 1 2 1 ^1 2 1 253 2 Ritchie Dalton Subaru Impreza WRX STi Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 1 6 6 2 3 2 3 4 3 1 2 ^1 212 3 Michael Bailey Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 3 4 3 4 2 5 4 5 4 7 4 183 4 Michael Harding Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2 2 8 2 2 Ret Ret 4 6 160 5 Gerald Schofield Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4 7 5 6 5 6 6 Ret Ret 8 5 127 6 Warren Lee Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4 1 6 3 116 7 Doug Tostevin Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 2 3 Ret 98 8 Peter Roberts Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 3 2 1 2 86 9 Brett Middleton Subaru Forester Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 5 4 4 Ret 7 10 84 10 Adrian Di Lallo Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Ret Ret 2 4 5 Ret 78 11 John O'Dowd Subaru Impreza WRX STi 1 3 70 Graeme Miles Subaru Impreza WRX 4 Ret 9 4 70 13 Derek Reynolds Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Ret 5 7 7 56 14 Bethany Cullen Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 9 5 3 5 55 15 Justin Dowell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2 8 54 16 Joshua Doyle Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 6 3 50 17 James Rodda Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 6 48 18 Stephen Mitchell Subaru Impreza WRX 10 7 9 6 42 19 Leigh Hynes Subaru Impreza WRX Ret 1 ^1 41 Declan Dwyer Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 1 Ret ^1 41 21 Stephen Mee Mazda 323 4WD 6 8 40 22 Mark Fawcett Porsche Cayenne 10 5 38 Cath Donohue Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 7 7 6 38 24 Chris Jaques Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 11 8 11 7 36 Robert Webber Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 5 9 36 26 John Keen Subaru Impreza WRX STi 12 9 10 8 33 27 Andrew Penny Subaru Impreza WRX 7 Ret 8 9 31 28 Robert King Subaru Impreza WRX 9 8 30 Brad Till Subaru Impreza WRX 10 7 30 30 Gerard McConkey Subaru Impreza WRX 8 Ret 6 11 28 31 Peter Dunn Subaru Impreza WRX STi Ret 10 12 12 19 32 Marius Swart Volkswagen Polo S2000 Ret 3 Ret 15

References

1. "2013 Season Calendar". rally.com.au. 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
2. "2013 Season Calendar". rally.com.au. 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
10. "2013 Point Score" (pdf). rally.com.au. Retrieved 2013-06-20.

External links

• Official website