The Back Room: 3. John Armitage

The Back Room will be a series of responsibly short articles profiling some of the people in rallying – predominately in Victoria – who have contributed for a good time and have excelled at their chosen discipline, but have preferred to do so out of the limelight.

Thus you might know their names and their faces, but what their background is and their journey through rallying may come as a bit of a surprise.

We will be profiling people from different backgrounds and with different specialities, but all with a common goal – for the love of rallying.

This episode of the Back Room is very special to many of us oldies, as well as the not so oldies.

This week we remember a very enigmatic and humane person who fell in love with rallying and gave it his all – or should that be he gave us all of him?  This profile concentrates on his involvement with Geoff Portman.  Very sadly, John has not been with us since 1994.

Let’s take a walk down memory with John Armitage.

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Bruce Keys

Bruce has been involved in rallying for over 40 years. Although a senior administrator with CAMS (Motorsport Australia) for 35 years, he is probably best known for exploits as a motor sport photographer in the 1970s. He was awarded Life Membership of CAMS (Motorsport Australia) in 2011. Bruce is currently semi-retired and lives in Melbourne.
Bruce has been involved in rallying for over 40 years. Although a senior administrator with CAMS (Motorsport Australia) for 35 years, he is probably best known for exploits as a motor sport photographer in the 1970s. He was awarded Life Membership of CAMS (Motorsport Australia) in 2011. Bruce is currently semi-retired and lives in Melbourne.

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