Spring 200 Trials

Find out about the rich history of the Spring 200 Trial

Event History

Our first records of the Ford Four Car Club conducting a trial was the 1975 Spring 200 Trial but there may have been editions in earlier years for which we do not have any records. It is certainly the club’s longest running event.

By the end of the 1970s the Spring 200 was regularly part of the Combine 6 Series and in the mid 1980s was a round of the Victorian Clubman Championship. With the demise of that series, it ran as a club event for a couple of years until is became a round of the Group 5 Series. It migrated to the Victorian Club Rally Series in 1992 where it was a regular round until its last edition in 2009, after which it morphed into the Marysville Stages. It was to be resurrected as a standalone event in 2013 – 2015m but 2016 but was cancelled. It was a sub-event of the Marysville Stages in 2017.

List of Editions held of this event.

Click on the Year to see more details about each edition. Click on the Area to see a plot of the route (if available).

YearDirector(s)AreaDriverNavigator/Co-driverCarStatus
1975Club
1976Club
1977Not conducted?
1978Chris BuckHeathcoteJohn Bramman
John Bennett
Jim Davis
Gerry Justus
Ford Escort
Datsun 1600
Combine6
1979Kevin PhillipsHeathcoteA. WhitelyRay ScottCombine6
1980John Bramman, John Walsh, Lewis CarltonPowelltownCombine6
1981John BrammanPowelltownCombine6
1982John WalshPowelltownChris NeilsonDavid RidleyCombine6
1983Alan PattersonMurrindindiChris NeilsonDavid RidleyCombine6
1984John BrammanPowelltownVCC
1985John BrammanPowelltownVCC
1986David RidleyPowelltownVCC
1987Michael CainsMurrindindi?Club
1988Michael CainsMurrindindi?Club
1989Keith MorlingMurrindindi?Group5
1990Greg HoinvilleMurrindindi?Group5
1991Chris NeilsenMurrindindi?Group5
1992Chris NeislenMurrindindi?R. WhistonJoe BrickDatsun 1600VCRS
1993Chris NeilsenMurrindindi?Mark MillerColin ElliottFord EscortVCRS
1994Greg WalkerMurrindindi?Mark MillerSue BrickFord EscortVCRS
1995Greg WalkerMurrindindi?Brian SemmensDavid LeonciniToyota Corolla TE37VCRS
1996David PaechMurrindindi?Ross FraserAshley FraserHolden CommodoreVCRS
1997Scott MannMurrindindi?David SmartRobin SmalleyDatsun 1600VCRS
1998Scott MannMurrindindi?CancelledVCRS
1999Murrindindi?Neal ScheyChris ScheyHolden CommodoreVCRS
2000John DownsMurrindindi?Gavin EdwardsRobin SmaleyDatsun 240ZVCRS
2001John DownsRoss FraserAshley FraserHolden CommdoreVCRS
2002John RobertsBrian SemmensDan ParryNissan 200SXVCRS
2003Mike TwycrossEli EvansKylie EvansSubaru Impreza WRXVCRS
2004John RobertsEli EvansMatthew McAdamSubaru Impreza WRXVCRS
2005Doug CorbenWayne StewartKim StewartSubaru Impreza WRXVCRS
2006Brian SemmensDan ParryNissan 200SXVCRS
2007John RobertsAndrew TaylorRobin SmalleyMazda RX7VCRS
2008John RobertsAndrew TaylorRobin SmalleyMazda RX7VCRS
2009John RobertsAndrew BellAri PatersonDatsun BluebirdVCRS
2010-12Became Marysville Stages
2013John RobertsMurrindindi?Steve PorterTony RobinsonMazda RX7VCRS
2014John Roberts??Murrindindi?Brendan BrownSteph RichardsDatsun 180BVCRS
2015Doug CorbenMurrindindiSteve PorterTony RobinsonMazda RX7VCRS
2016Doug CorbenMurrindindiCancelledVCRS
2017*Doug CorbenMarysvilleCary SeabrookRhiannon Philpot-HaleDatsun StanzaVCRS

  • 2017 was run as a sub-event of the Marysville Stages