AORC
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 …
PROUT SEALS SEA LAKE WIN
The four round 2012 Australian Off Road Championship launched on the Sunday with the 39th running of the MBL Sea Lake Mallee Rally in north-west Victoria. In its return to the AORC, SeaLake attracted an impressive field of over 110 entries. But after 5 laps of the 85 kilometre course which loops around Lake Tyrell, …
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 …
Fellows Claims First AORC Title
The 2010 Australian Off Road Championship season has been played out in some of the toughest conditions on record. With mother nature dealing out some extreme weather conditions during the first four rounds of the season and then forcing the final race at Goondiwindi to be cancelled due to flooding in the region. Making light …
Fellows Storms Home at the Pines
David Fellows and Mark Bergamin have stormed home to convincingly win the Teagle Excavations ARB Pines Enduro held at Millicent on South Australia’s Limestone Coast on the weekend. Fellows tamed the tough and muddy track conditions created by the excessive rain that hammered the South East corner of Australia. Threading the Peter Kittle Motorsports Jimco …
Owen Completes Griffith Triple
Glenn Owen and Deon Beattie celebrated the highly anticipated return of Griffith to the Australian Off Road Championship with a win at the MTQ Engine Systems Griffith 700 on the weekend. The victory marked the Victorian teams fifth outright win at the event and also sealed them a rare hat trick after wins in …
FELLOW FINKE THREEPEAT…
2010 AORC Round Two – Tattersall’s Finke Desert Race South Australian based David Fellows (#2 Jimco Toyota Buggy) has won the 2010 Tattersall’s Finke Desert Race bringing his total number of victories in Australia’s most prestigious off-road event to a total of five. Fellows’ magnificent record in the event includes three consecutive wins (2008, 2009, …
Fellows Breaks Easter Drought
AORC 2010 Round One – Hyden The 2010 Australian Off Road Championship kicked off in style in the West Australian wheat belt over the Easter long weekend, with David Fellows and Mark Bergamin taking victory at the ARB Pinjarra Engineering Hyden 450. Fellows with his rookie navigator alongside, broke Peter Kittle Motorsports recent drought at …