Rentsch Wins 2013 Hyden – AORC Round One
The Victorian team of Shannon and Ian Rentsch have returned to the Australian Off Road Championship winners circle, taking victory at round 1 of the championship, the Komatsu Brooks Hire Hyden 450 held in the West Australian wheat belt over Easter. It was the team’s third outright victory at Hyden and the first since debuting …
Coleman Makes A Splash At Lockyer Valley
The final round of the Australian Off Road Championship held in Queensland on the weekend saw Matt Coleman and Shawn Teagle take victory at the Mitsubishi Electric Lockyer Valley 300 in their Chevy powered #55 Alpha Pro Buggy. The rain on Friday night and on Saturday forced the event organizers, the Brisbane Sporting Car Club, …
Exedy Xtreme International RFC
Landcruiser Mountain Park, Jimna QLD played host to the Exedy XI-RFC “8 Days of Off Road Magic” from the 22 – 29 September. The winch style event was a tough competition for all teams involved who had to tackle 43 stages over 8 days. 3rd place went to Lynda O’Reilly-Ward, Aaron Ward and Stephen O’Donnell, …
HANSON STRIKES AT THE PINES
Matt Hanson and Leigh Wells have stormed home to take their maiden AORC round victory at the Teagle Excavations ARB Pines Enduro held in Millicent, South Australia, on the weekend. Hanson recovered from a roll over in the #7 SMU Jimco during Saturday afternoons top ten shoot out, to take charge of the six lap …
Gallard Guns Goondiwindi
The South Australian based team of Brad Gallard and Scott Modistach tamed one of the toughest tracks of the Australian Off Road Championship to win the Albins Offroad Gear Goondiwindi 400 held in Queensland on the weekend. Already pumped from his recent Finke Desert Race win, Gallard unleashed the #454 Monster Energy Geiser Bros Trophy …
The Champs Shine As Goondiwindi Gets Drenched
One of the most anticipated rounds of the 2011 Australian Off Road Championship, the Albins Goondiwindi 400 was over before the drivers could select first gear last weekend. When a series of storms passed through the South-Western Queensland town on Friday night and continued in to the early hours of Saturday morning, drenching the race …
FELLOWS POUNCES IN THE PINES
David Fellows and Mark Bergamin played their cards to perfection to win the Teagle Excavations ARB Pines Enduro held in Millicent, SA for a second consecutive year. The South Australian based team threaded the #1 Peter Kittle Motorsport Jimco through the tall Pines of the Tantanoola State Forest in a time of 3hrs 49min 49.73sec …
FELLOW CLINCHES FLINDERS 450
South Australians, David Fellows and Mark Bergamin fended off the hard charging territorians, Dan Auricht and Grant Connelly to win the Bentley’s Cabin Park Flinders 450 held on the weekend. Keeping the twin turbo V6 Jimco on song, Fellows finished the 7 laps of the 65km course that was sandwiched between the picturesque Flinders Ranges …
GARTNER CROWNED KING OF THE DESERT…
The South Australian crew of Greg Gartner and Jamie Jennings have made Tattersall’s Finke Desert Race history by taking victory in an Extreme 2WD truck, displacing the normal supremacy of the Pro Buggies in Australia’s largest and most prestigious off-road event. The #410 Ford 150 driven by Gartner and Jennings completed the gruelling 452km two …
Fellows Harvests Another Hyden AORC Win
Reigning Australian Offroad Racing Champions, David Fellows and Mark Bergamin (#1) picked up where they left off at the end of 2010, winning their second consecutive ARB Pinjarra Engineering Hyden 450 in a time of 4 hours 40min 14.72 seconds. Held over the Easter long weekend in the wind swept wheat fields of Hyden, Western …