The Blue Ribbon Rally was jointing organised by the Light Car Club of Australia and the Car Club of RMIT and ran on October 8.
When the George Derrick Memorial Rally, scheduled for September, was cancelled due to weather conditions, the Director, Rick Thorpe, combined forces with Phil Wylie, Director of the Blue Ribbon, to run a combined event. The Blue Ribbon Derrick ran around the city of Maryborough.
Victorian Rally Championship Round 2
While the winners were David Greig and Paul Tirant in their Group G Datsun 1600, it was encouraging for the plans to transition away from Group G to see PRC and Clubman cars filling the places down to seventh. Eric Pietila and Mike Rebbechi finished a close second in the PRC Mazda 323, just 23 seconds adrift. Ross and Ashley Fraser followed up on their excellent performance in the previous year’s Alpine by finishing third and first Clubman car.
