2003 Victorian Rally Championship

Table of Contents

Series Regulations
Events
Outright Pointscores
2WD Pointscores
Clubman Pointscores
Novice Pointscores
Class Awards

This year the VRC was sponsored by RACEtech Steel. With three wins and a second placing, Mike Reeves and Robin Smalley ran out clear winners in their Lancer Evo 3. Their closest challengers were Mark Fawcett / Kylie Evans and Peter Montgomery / Chris Montgomery, both in Subaru WRXs and with a round win apiece.

Andrew Vibert and David Gallacher won the 2WD Championship in their Corolla. Matthew and Adam Douglas won both the Clubman and Novice awards in their Toyota Sprinter.

To see what else happened during 2003 in Victorian rallying, go to the 2003 year page.

To see other years of the Victorian Rally Championship, go to the VRC page.

Series Regulations

These were specified in the VRC Standing Regulations.

The VRC was made up exclusively of Special Stage events with competitive distances between 50 and 230 km.

Eligible vehicles were PRC, Group N and Historic Rally Cars.

Awards were made for outright champions, 2WD, Clubman (re-introduced this year and for 2WD cars only) and Novice (sponsored by Pedders and known as the Pedders No Bull Award). There were also car class awards as follows: PRC up to 1400cc, PRC 1401-1600cc, PRC 1601-2000cc, PRC 2WD over 2000cc, PRC 4WD over 2000cc (split into two classes, pre and post 1991) , Group N under 1400cc, Group N 1401-1600cc, Group N 1601-2000cc, Group N over 2000cc and Historic Rally Cars.

All awards were allocated 20-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for first to tenth. Perhaps in response to the close result the previous year, the “drop your worst result” regulation was reintroduced, this year with fur out of five results to count. Series Registration was introduced back in 1994 and only registered competitors were eligible for points. However, bona fide Victorian competitors were automatically recognised as registered! All awards required competitors to compete in at least 50% of the events.

Events

There were 5 VRC events in 2003. Rally of Melbourne was originally calendared as a joint ARC/VRC round but was dropped from the VRC. There was some suggestion that the Begonia Rally would be resurrected but this did not appear to happen. The Akademos was postponed from May to November, so becoming the final round.

David Nutter Ford Used Cars Rally (CCRMIT)
Strzelecki Stages (CerbCC)
Bega Valley Rally (NSW)
North Eastern Rally (NECC)
Akademos Rally (MUCC)

The points tables below still refer to the Akademos as Round 3.

Outright Pointscores

2WD Pointscores

Clubman Pointscores