2014
Owen Locks In Pole For SeaLake
#30 Glenn Owen and Mat Ryan have won today’s prologue at the MBL SeaLake Mallee Rally ARB 350 in a time of 4min 05.595sec. Ahead of #42 Danny Brown and George Apted in second 4:09.391 & the third placed #942 Wally & Maree Francombe a further one and half seconds back. #154 Cam McClelland drove …
Robinson Takes P1 On Finke Grid
Travis Robinson and Paul Currie from WA in their #13 JIMCO OBR Nissan 3500cc PRO buggy have dominated today’s Prologue for the 2014 Tatts Finke Desert Race. Setting an extremely fast time of 4minutes 59 seconds around the 8.3 kilometre prologue circuit Robinson/Currie were 11 seconds ahead of the second placed Victorian son and father …
GARLAND TO DEBUT NEW DAKAR-SPEC ISUZU AT FINKE
Australian Dakar Rally veteran Bruce Garland has confessed to ‘a moment of madness’, leaving today for the Northern Territory in preparation for next week’s Finke Desert Race, the toughest cross-country rally in the southern hemisphere.The 55-year-old Sydneysider, who has survived a fractured vertebra, a heart attack and five bypasses, and prostate cancer surgery in the …
EAGLE POWERSPORTS READY FOR FINKE
The Eagle Powersports team completed suspension testing on their two Polaris RZR 1000s on the weekend as final preparations are made for their three car assault on the Finke Desert Race. In what has been a huge team effort by the staff at Eagle, they have also completed full race preparations for the Polaris Australia …
Tough Tracks Round 1
The season starter of the 2014 Tough Tracks 4×4 Challenge saw round one having to be changed from Emu Creek Extreme Retreat to The Springs 4×4 Park at the last minute due to local council limiting hours available to run the comp in. Luckily some new tracks were organised at The Springs and the competition was …
Robinson Strikes Kalgoorlie Gold
Beau Robinson and Ken Skinner struck gold in their #413 OBR Trophy Truck this afternoon, taking their maiden AORC round win at the opening round of the 2014 season, the Kalgoorlie 400. The Perth based team thrived in tough, dusty conditions, finishing in a time of 4hr 46min 15sec, picking off the twin turbo V6 …
Rhodes leads Day One at Kalgoorlie 400
South Australian Jack Rhodes lead the way at the inaugural Kalgoorlie 400 after the #91 Jimco racer crossed the finish line fastest in Saturday’s section 1 with a time of 57m32sec. What was a hot and dusty opening round of the 2014 Australian Off Road Championship, Outer Bounds Racing’s Travis Robinson greeted the chequered flag …
Dixon Wins Condo 750
The Slattery Auctions Condo 750 cross country rally was held in near perfect conditions, with the heavy rain that had threatened the event in the preceding days clearing on Friday afternoon. Leaving in its wake a glowing outback sunset for scrutiny in the main street of Condobolin and an almost dust free track for the …
Tough Day at the Office For Narva Racing
The new kid on the block, the ARB Paringa 400 held at Broken Hill proved it was a force to be reckoned with on the weekend. Serving up a challenging mix of flowing station tracks, creek crossings, washouts and bull dust that claimed many of Australia’s top offroad racing teams as victims, including the #882 …
Owen Dominates The Dust At Paringa
Glenn Owen and Matt Ryan won the first round of the ARB Off Road Racing Series, the ARB Paringa 400 held in Broken Hill this weekend in their #30 Jimco. Aaron and Liz Haby successfully debuted their #57 Element Buggy, taking second outright ahead of his brother Carl Haby & Terry Schultz in the #56 Element in third outright. …
ANGLOMOIL SXS TEAM AIMING FOR WIN IN THE WEST
The Anglomoil SXS (side by side) team of Nathan and Les Chivers competing in the Quit Forest Rally on April 4-6, the next round of the ECU Bull Bars Australian Rally Championship, is hoping for an outright win after having finished 3rd and 2nd in previous years. The Sydney father and son duo have …
ARB Coopers Plains Micklefab TT Ready for Debut
After 18 months intense preparation, the ARB Coopers Plains team are ready to debut their #408 Micklefab Raptor Trophy Truck at round one of the 2014 ARB Off Road Racing Series at Broken Hill this weekend. Driven by Mark Lacey, with his son Oliver in the navigators seat the team are looking forward to kicking …