2023 Gippsland Rally

The Middle of Everywhere Gippsland Rally, organised by the Vroom Events (with the assistance of CCRMIT), was held on 26-27 August.

 Australian Rally Championship Round 4
Victorian Rally Championship Round 3

The Gippsland Rally is pace-noted with recce for the Saturday stages on Friday. Sunday stages were recce’d on Thursday. The VRC Round was conducted as two heats only on Day 1 (Saturday).

The ARC event was won by Harry Bates and Coral Taylor in a Toyota GR Yaris AP4.
The VRC event was won by Brendan Reeves and Alex Gelsomino in a Datsun 1600. They placed second in the first heat and won the second heat. The first heat was won by Justin Dowel and Tracey Dewhurst in Mitsubishi Mirage, but they only finished 9th in the second heat.

Results and entry list

ARC Results

VRC Results

Route

The event was conducted over two days. Day 1 was to the north-west of Heyfield and comprised 4 stages repeated, which also constituted Heat 1 and 2 of the VRC round. Day 2 started with a short stage at the Boisdale Hillclimb followed by three forestry stages to the north of Briagalong, each repeated. The final Power Stage was at the Boisdale Hillclimb but includes additional road on the approach and within the hillclimb precinct.

Plot of stages on rally-maps.com.

Map Book

Other event documents