2013 Australian Rally Championship

The 2013 East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship is the 46th season of the Australian Rally Championship, one of the world's oldest continuously run rally championships. The season began 1 March at the newly revived National Capital Rally, and is scheduled to end 16 November at Rally Victoria, after six events.

2013 Australian Rally season
Previous: 2012 Next: 2014

The championship incorporates two international events, Round 5 is a World Rally Championship event, Rally Australia, while Round 4, the International Rally of Queensland is a round of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship.

Each domestic rally is contested over two heats, with three or four components to the two international events.[1]

With the championship now awarded specifically to two-wheel-drive cars exclusively has seen an influx of European and Asian Super 2000 and Super 1600 cars as well as a revival of older rear-wheel-drive performance cars. While most of the top drivers have moved out of the Mitsubishi Lancer and Subaru Impreza 4WD turbos, they remain competitive with reigning Western Australian rally champion Alex Stone winning a heat at the Forest Rally.

Between Honda Jazz driver Eli Evans and Renault Clio driver Scott Peddar have dominated the 2013 season, winning all bar one heat and taking eleven of the 18 top three positions. Evans leads the championship by 29 points over Peddar. Peddar's teammate Tom Wilde is 88 points behind Evans in third. Mazda 2 driver Brendan Reeves, who is also racing in the NACAM Rally Championship is fourth a distant 119 points from Peddar. Proving the flexibility of the new regulations, Jack Monkhouse is fifth in the championship driving a 1999 model Nissan Silvia.

Race calendar and results

The 2013 Australian Rally Championship is as follows:[2]

Round Rally name Podium finishers Statistics
Rank Driver Car Time Stages Length Starters Finishers
1 National Capital Rally Heat 1
(1–2 March)[3]		 1 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 47:58.0 6 96.06 km 66 54
2 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 48:06.1
3 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 48:48.5
Heat 2
(3 March)[4]		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 58:12.2 7 95.34 km 65 47
2 John Mitchell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 58:24.7
3 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 58:45.3
2 Quit Forest Rally Heat 1
(5–6 April)[5]		 1 Alex Stone Subaru Impreza WRX STI 1:09:08.3 10 105.89 km 47 35
2 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 1:10:47.2
3 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 1:11:31.9
Heat 2
(7 April)[6]		 1 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 1:04:42.5 9 104.17 km 41 27
2 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 1:05:01.5
3 Leigh Hynes Subaru Impreza WRX 1:05:18.8
3 Scouts Rally SA Heat 1
(24–25 May)[7]		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 57:53.6 11 117.05 km 51 42
2 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 58:12.3
3 Declan Dwyer Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 58:13.3
Heat 2
(26 May)[8]		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 50:39.3 7 93.81 km 44 36
2 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 50:57.2
3 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 51:13.4
4 International Rally of Queensland Heat 1
(12–13 July)		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 1:02:30.5 12 111.24 km 74 53
2 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 1:02:54.8
3 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 1:03:55.4
Heat 2
(14 July)		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 1:05:20.5 9 102.82 km 64 48
2 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 1:06:42.2
3 Steven Shepheard Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 1:07:06.7
Overall
(12–14 July)[9]		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 2:07:51.0 21 214.06 km 74 48
2 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 2:10:37.6
3 John Mitchell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 2:12:26.0
5 Rally Australia Heat 1
(12–13 September)		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 49:35.6 9 94.54 km 69 64
2 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 50:06.1
3 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 50:19.8
Heat 2
(14 September)		 1 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 1:25:00.7 6 132.68 km 66 57
2 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 1:25:02.2
3 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 1:25:50.4
Heat 3
(15 September)		 1 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 36:25.0 3 62.57 km 62 47
2 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 36:34.7
3 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 36:47.6
Overall
(12–15 September)		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 2:51:25.4 18 289.79 km 69 47
2 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 2:51:41.5
3 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 2:53:45.2
6 Rally Victoria Heat 1
(15 November)		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 41:13.3 4 55.20 km 37 34
2 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 41:16.5
3 Richie Dalton Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 41:17.8
Heat 2
(16 November)		 1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 1:36:13.3 7 143.20 km 64 56
2 John Mitchell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 1:36:40.1
3 Richie Dalton Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 1:36:46.0

Championship standings

The 2013 Australian Rally Championship points are as follows:[10]

Australian Championship
Position Driver Vehicle Capital Forest SA Queensland Australia Victoria Total
H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 Overall H1 H2 H3 Overall H1 H2
1 Eli Evans Honda Jazz 2 1 4 1 2 5 1 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 6 1 1 6 508
2 Tom Wilde Renault Clio R3 3 11 2 3 5 4 1 3 2 2 5 3 3 4 3 3 3 326
3 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 1 2 3 1 2 2 2 2 7 5 1 10 4 1 5 1 Ret Ret 1 326
4 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 Ret 9 5 4 6 3 3 3 6 Ret Ret 3 2 1 2 2 2 2 293
5 Mark Pedder Honda Jazz 6 4 Ret Ret 6 5 4 3 3 6 5 5 4 4 Ret 230
6 Michael Patton Volkswagen Polo 8 7 7 Ret Ret DNS 7 5 6 9 9 8 6 5 5 178
7 Adrian Coppin Ford Fiesta R2 9 8 8 Ret 9 8 8 6 7 11 8 9 7 152
8 Nicholas Box Holden VK Commodore
Nissan 370Z		 11 10 Ret 5 14 Ret 5 4 4 8 7 Ret Ret 125
9 Jack Monkhouse Nissan Silvia 5 3 1 5 7 11 Ret 3 Ret Ret Ret 5 Ret Ret Ret 3 122
10 Michael Boaden Volkswagen Polo Ret 5 6 4 7 6 Ret DNS Ret 4 Ret Ret Ret 119
11 Steven Mackenzie Ford Fiesta ST 7 6 8 9 Ret Ret Ret Ret 6 6 8 Ret Ret 106
12 Glen Raymond Mazda RX-7 7 10 7 9 6 4 84
13 Will Orders Nissan Silvia 4 Ret Ret Ret 4 Ret 52
Key
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Excluded (EX)
Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Cancelled (C)
Blank Withdrew entry from
the event (WD)

Four wheel drive class
Position Driver Vehicle Capital Forest SA Queensland Australia Victoria Total
H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 Overall H1 H2 H3 Overall H1 H2
1 John Mitchell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII Ret 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 253
2 Ritchie Dalton Subaru Impreza WRX STi
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX		 1 6 6 2 3 2 3 4 3 1 2 1 212
3 Michael Bailey Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 3 4 3 4 2 5 4 5 4 7 4 183
4 Michael Harding Subaru Impreza WRX STi 2 2 8 2 2 Ret Ret 4 6 160
5 Gerald Schofield Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4 7 5 6 5 6 6 Ret Ret 8 5 127
6 Warren Lee Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 4 1 6 3 116
7 Doug Tostevin Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 2 3 Ret 98
8 Peter Roberts Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 3 2 1 2 86
9 Brett Middleton Subaru Forester Ret Ret Ret Ret 4 5 4 4 Ret 7 10 84
10 Adrian Di Lallo Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Ret Ret 2 4 5 Ret 78
11 John O'Dowd Subaru Impreza WRX STi 1 3 70
Graeme Miles Subaru Impreza WRX 4 Ret 9 4 70
13 Derek Reynolds Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI Ret 5 7 7 56
14 Bethany Cullen Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 9 5 3 5 55
15 Justin Dowell Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 2 8 54
16 Joshua Doyle Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII 6 3 50
17 James Rodda Subaru Impreza WRX STi 3 6 48
18 Stephen Mitchell Subaru Impreza WRX 10 7 9 6 42
19 Leigh Hynes Subaru Impreza WRX Ret 1 1 41
Declan Dwyer Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 1 Ret 1 41
21 Stephen Mee Mazda 323 4WD 6 8 40
22 Mark Fawcett Porsche Cayenne 10 5 38
Cath Donohue Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X 7 7 6 38
24 Chris Jaques Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI 11 8 11 7 36
Robert Webber Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX 5 9 36
26 John Keen Subaru Impreza WRX STi 12 9 10 8 33
27 Andrew Penny Subaru Impreza WRX 7 Ret 8 9 31
28 Robert King Subaru Impreza WRX 9 8 30
Brad Till Subaru Impreza WRX 10 7 30
30 Gerard McConkey Subaru Impreza WRX 8 Ret 6 11 28
31 Peter Dunn Subaru Impreza WRX STi Ret 10 12 12 19
32 Marius Swart Volkswagen Polo S2000 Ret 3 Ret 15

References
  1. "2013 Season Calendar". rally.com.au. 23 December 2012. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  2. "2013 Season Calendar". rally.com.au. 23 December 2012. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  10. "2013 Point Score" (pdf). rally.com.au. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
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