1993 Telecom Rally Australia

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Results and entry list
Route
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Rally Australia was held on September 18-21, based in Perth.

World Rally Championship Round 10

Asia Pacific Rally Championship Round 4

Australian Rally Championship Round 12 (coeff 20)

This was the sixth Rally Australia and the fifth as a round of the WRC, but the first to be included in the ARC under new coefficient system.

Juha Kankkunen and Nicky Grist ran out clear winners in the factory Celica, more than 5 minutes clear of Ari Vatanen and Bruno Berglund in a Subaru Legacy.

The ARC round was won by Ross Dunkerton and Fred Gocentas in a Lancer, finishing a fantastic fourth outright.

The event was marred by the fatal crash of Possum Bourne and Rodger Freeth in which Freeth was killed.

Results and entry list

Entry list

Place	Driver	Ctry/St	Co-driver	Ctry/St	Car	Time	ARC
1	Juha Kankkunen	Fin	Nicky Grist	UK	Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD (ST185)	5:19:58
2	Ari Vatanen	Fin	Bruno Berglund	Swe	Subaru Legacy RS	5:25:50
3	François Delecour	Fra	D. Grataloup	Fra	Ford Escort RS Cosworth	5:43:42
4	Ross Dunkerton	WA	Fred Gocentas	ACT	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	5:46:18	1
5	Sepp Haider	Ost	Klaus Wendel	Ger	Audi Coupé S2	5:49:08
6	Colin McRae	UK	Derek Ringer	UK	Subaru Legacy RS	5:56:33
7	Ed Ordynski	SA	Mark Stacey	SA	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	5:58:42	2
8	Neal Bates	ACT	Coral Taylor	NSW	Toyota Celica Turbo 4WD (ST185)	6:04:50	3
9	Kiyoshi Inoue	Jap	Satoshi Hayashi	Jap	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	6:09:04
10	David Officer	Vic	Kate Officer	Vic	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	6:11:43	4
11	John Macara	WA	Paul Helm	WA	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4	6:13:40	5
12	Michael Guest	NSW	Duncan Jordan	NSW	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	6:15:12	6
13	Mark Griffith	Qld	Tom Smith	Qld	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4	6:21:08	7
14	Jacquiline Dines	WA	Barbara Clews	WA	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4	6:21:13	8
15	Allan McCarthy	NSW	Chris Randell	Vic	Subaru Legacy RS	6:25:58	9
16	Ledi Kurnadi	Indo	Raphael Arioseno	Indo	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4	6:28:40
17	Gerard McGroarty	WA	Robert McGowan	WA	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	6:30:13	10
18	Leigh Hynes	WA	Glenn Macneall	WA	Daihatsu Charade GTti	6:32:34
19	Frank Johnson	WA	Mark Blume	NSW	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	6:34:31
20	Robert Nicoli	WA	David Hynes	WA	Daihatsu Charade GTti	6:38:21
21	Kazumasa Takata	Jap	Jonathon Smeulders		Subaru Legacy RS	6:38:54
22	Dean Tighe		Alan Bates	Qld	Nissan Pulsar GTi-R	6:39:20
23	Michio Nakamoto	Jap	Y. Nakahara	Jap	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo I	6:40:01
24	Norman Fritter	NSW	Steve O’Brien-Pounde	NSW	Toyota Celica GT-4	6:48:24
25	David West	NSW	Tony Best	Qld	Suzuki Swift GTi	6:48:30
26	Walther Nahr	Ger	Frederick Conner	UK	Mitsubishi Galant VR-4	6:49:44
27	Brett Middleton	NSW	Ross Middleton	NSW	Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	6:53:23
28	Ross Mackenzie	WA	Joan Percival	WA	Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	6:58:04
29	Warren Tuckett		Alan Cook		Suzuki Swift GTi	7:02:19
30	John Farrell		Reg McKinley		Mitsubishi Galant VR-4	7:03:23
31	Paul Madlener		Diana Madlener		Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	7:14:03
32	Andrew Pinker	WA	Tony Floyd		Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	7:21:28
33	Craig Richardson		Chris Harkins		Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	7:26:39
34	John Stilling	NSW	Mike Taylor	NSW	Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	7:28:07
35	Lynn Rattray	Tas	Tony Jackson	Tas	Mazda Familia 4WD	7:32:26
36	Glenn Brinkman	NSW	Grant Geelan		Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	7:33:50
37	Keith Hedgeland		Judy Hedgeland		Mazda Familia 4WD	7:38:34
38	Michael Edmonds		Gavin Angus		Mazda Familia 4WD	7:47:23
39	Ian Renouf	UK	Paul Parlevliet		Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	7:59:41
40	Susumu Sadayama	Jap	Greg Day		Mazda Familia 4WD	8:00:07
41	Kikuo Narita	Jap	Kiyomitsu Asano	Jap	Toyota Starlet	8:22:38
42	Johny Pramono	Indo	Ivan Lembong	Indo	Daihatsu Charade GTti	9:05:27
43	Wayne Taylor		Judith Draper	UK	Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	9:08:09
44	Jenny Devine		Paul Flintoft		Daihatsu Charade 1.3i	9:29:17

Stage results

Route

The event was run over four days commencing with the Langley Park super special on a wet Saturday morning followed by stages to the east. The super special was repeated on Saturday and Sunday evenings. The Bunnings stages were run on Sunday. Monday saw stages to the south and the event finished on Tuesday with four more stages to the east. There were 34 special stages totalling 560 km of competition.

Itinerary and stage plots