Sydney to London Rally

[NEW240]

Three zeds currently lead the rally after day 6 followed by

two 911's and two escorts. Not sure about the leading zed but

2nd is a Stewart Wilkins prepared and built 260 with Stewart doing

the servicing to Perth.

[dat2kman]

Mark Pickering is well out in front.

On the long stretch over to WA at moment.

They were in Burra yesterday.

Few Dato1600's couple Stanza's, and quite a few Escorts.

Oh and some booming big Mustangs.

The stages so far, have been up to 80km's long, all are going hard.

Once in Perth, they get airlifted to Akbar in Malaysia, then on car ferrys till the hit the mainland, where the stages get a lot rougher.

[NEW240]

HI Jason

Where are you getting your updates from mine are

obviously very slow.

Cheers

Vince.

 

[dat2kman]

Direct from two of the service crews, for cars running mid field. They are seeing what is occuring out front.

Quite a few are treating it as a "sprint" event, rather than a enduro, and are having to rebuild front ends, before even leaving South Australia!

 

Some of these guys are on $$$ limits and may pull out at end of the Australian leg

Oh, and BTW, entry fee for the full event, Syd to Lond,,,,,,, $52,000

Yikes!

[George]

That's a hefty entry fee. Is there a website with more info on this event?

[dat2kman]

Transworld Events, something like that,

Or google Sydney to London 2014

They wont have current updates but pretty close.

 

Quite a few Zeds in the event!

[jeff43]

The Coconut racing Zed driven by Geoff Olholm is prepared by an Adelaide based gentleman by the name of Gary Kirk. The car has previously done the South African Safari and was modified for this event recently. https://www.facebook.com/coconutcarracingteam

[dat2kman]

Yesterday afternoon, 4pm at Perth Airport, a massive Russian Antonov air carrier, loaded up all rally cars, service vehicles, event vehicles for the flight to Ankara, where the Europe leg will start.

 

Two days ago, the crews were thrown onto what was described as a "Horror dtage"

Details are vague, but four or five front running crews, including at least one Z, were classified as DNF the stage.

Nothing new here, the old Repco Around Australia events would often have these near impossible stages, just to stop the event being a procession drive.

They were car killers.