While the Victorian Rally Championship is off and running with two rounds already completed, the postponement of the Narooma Booma Rally and National Capital Stages, both due to inclement weather, means that the Bega Valley Rally becomes the first round for both the New South Wales Rally Championship and the Shannon’s Insurance ACT Regional Series.
The event is all set to run on its traditional date over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June, starting at 7:30am on Sunday 10 June from the picturesque Snug Cove Wharf at Twofold Bay in Eden.
Unusually for rallies that are conducted year after year, the current Bega Valley Rally has a completely new course for each year. Although some forest roads are used each year, they are re-configured into a route that is always both interesting and challenging. The stages offer a wide range of surface and driver challenge conditions.
This year almost 40% of the special stages distance will be completely new to the modern-era of the event, including 35 kilometres of excellent shire roads over two stages in Victoria, and another forestry road of 20 kilometres in NSW near the Victorian border, that will help to maintain Bega’s reputation for some of the very best rally roads in the country.
All of the event’s ten special stages over 190 competitive kilometres, are different, and there are no repeat stages, nor reversing of any stages. The Exedy Victorian Rally Championship will be contested over two heats, both consisting of 5 stages and 95 competitive kms each. The Shannon’s Insurance ACT Regional Series and both the NSW and Victorian Hyundai Excel Series will be conducted over a ‘short’ course of 7 stages totally 140 kilometres.
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