SPECTATOR GUIDE The Adelaide Hills Rally is proud to welcome Bott Storage Systems as the event naming rights sponsor for 2018. Bott is a global leader in the design and manufacture of in-vehicle and workshop storage equipment. In Australia and New Zealand, the international Bott Group is represented by Bott Storage Systems. Bott brought rally legend Frank Kelly down-under last year and also supports the Paddon Motorsport Hyundai team in New Zealand. The range of Bott in-vehicle storage equipment is proudly made in South Australia. Craig Beard, Managing Director says “The AHR represents a great opportunity to showcase our product range to motorsport fans and the general public alike. We have recently released a new range of dedicated trade-packs and the rally is a great way of taking the products out of the showroom and into the community.” Throughout the event there will be a selection of Bott demonstration vans and utilities on display to see first-hand the quality of the fit-out and superior engineering. Bott - Turning a van into a work space. www.bott-group.com.au CONTENTS Disclaimer ............................................. 4 Spectating on Rallies ........................... 4 Welcome - Event Director and Clerk of Course ................. 5 2018 CAMS Australian Rally Championship So Far ........................... 6 1972: John Taylor & Graham 2018 MRF Tyres S.A. Rally West (Austin Kimberley) Championship So Far ........................... 7 Public Scrutineering ............................. 8 Service Park .......................................... 8 Friday Night Super Special Stage ........ 9 Saturday Stages Map ......................... 10 Sunday Stages Map ........................... 11 Itinerary .........................................12-13 SPECTATOR POINTS ...................14-20 BOTT making life easier for NZ Hyundai team ................................ 21 1974: Colin Bond & George Things To Do in the Adelaide Hills ..... 22 Shepheard (Torana GTR XU-1) Welcome to Callington ....................... 25 Bott Adelaide Hills Rally Anderson Hill Rally Experience ........................... 26 Bott Adelaide Hills Rally Pike & Joyce Rally Experience ................................. 27 List of Competitors & Profiles .......28-31 S.A.’s Rallying Car Clubs ................... 32 Event Partners ..............................33-37 Australian Rally Champions .............. 38 South Australian Rally Champions ... 40 1991: Neal Bates & Michael A.R.C. round winners in S.A. ............. 42 Taylor (Toyota Celica GT4) 2013: Eli Evans & Glen Weston (Honda Jazz) 3 MOTOR SPORT IS DANGEROUS In exchange for being able to attend or participate inh the event you agree: • To release Confederation of Australian Motor Sport Ltd (“CAMS”) and Australian Motor Sport Commission Ltd., promoters, sponsor organisations, land owners and lessees, organisers of the event their respective servants, officials, representatives and agents (collectively, the “Associated Entities”) from all liability for your death, personal injury (including burns), psychological trauma, loss or damage (including property damage) (“harm”) howsoever arising from your participation in or attendance at the event, except to the extent prohibited by law; • That CAMS and the Associated Entities do not make any warrantyimplied or express, that the event services will be provided with due care and skill or that any materials provided in connection with the services will be fit for the purpose for which they are supplied; and to attend or participate in the event at your own risk. You acknowledge that: • The risks associated with attending or participating in the event include the risk that you may suffer harm as a result of: Motor vehicles (or parts of them) colliding with other motor vehicles, persons or property; Acts of violence and other harmful acts (whether intentional or inadvertent) committed by persons attending or participating in the event; and • The failure or unsuitability of facilities (including grand-stands, fences and guard rails) to ensure the safety of persons or property at the event. • Motor sport is dangerous and that accidents causing harm can and do happen and may happen to you. You accept the conditions of, and acknowledge the risks arising from, attending or participating in the event and being provided with the event services by CAMS and the Associated Entities. RESTRICTED AREAS SPECTATING ON RALLIES ALWAYS: NEVER: • Always stay alert! The unexpected may • Never stand in prohibited areas (Study the happen spectator viewing diagrams) • Always consider your own safety and • Never stand or sit close to the edge of the road that of others at all times • Never stand below the level of the road (or in • Always stand where you can see the gutters or culverts) competing cars coming and going • Never stand in run-off (escape) routes for the • Always leave yourself room to move competing cars away quickly • Never sit down at a location on the same level • Always keep children under constant as the cars – you need to be standing so that and close supervision you are able to move away quickly if necessary • Always leave pets at home, please • Never stand in front of arrows or signs relevant don’t bring them to a spectator area to the running of the event • Always listen to the marshals- they are • Never be distracted – always face the there to ensure the event runs within competing cars the safety guidelines prescribed by • Never stand on or cross the road while it is CAMS officially closed • Always take your litter home with you • Never play games with your safety, or with that and keep our forests clean of the competitors 4 WELCOME - FROM THE EVENT DIRECTOR AND CLERK-OF-COURSE Thank you to David McDonough and Craig Beard from the BOTT Group for coming on board as our Major Sponsor this year. Your support of our major sponsor is always appreciated. This year, our main aim is to bring Rally back to the public! You will find the Service Park located in the centre of Mt Barker at the local Showgrounds/Main Oval, just 15 minutes from Adelaide. We are lucky enough to have partnered with Hills Radio 88.9FM to broadcast live from the scrutineering and service park and will be actively asking crews for their comments. We have decided to change the format of scrutineering, where we will be closing off Gawler Street in Mt Barker to host the promotional scrutineering and team meet and greet evening. Crew attendance will be required, and afterwards, will park their cars for the public to view while signing posters and engaging with the public at the drivers signing session. Times will be allocated for this. Another change this year that we are very excited about is the Shannon’s Adventure Tour, an initiative that the 2018 BOTT Adelaide Hills Rally has recently introduced. We also have reintroduced Classic Cars as part of the ARC competition through the 2018 BOTT Adelaide Hills Rally Classic Cup. We have been missing the diversity that the Classic Cars bring in the ARC events and hope that we will spark a revival in these spectacular vehicles in ARC events. Wednesday will have full and part day testing sessions available, with Thursday put aside for reconnaissance and scrutineering. Friday will see the teams based out of “The Bend Motorsport Park”. There will be a further short testing session before we move in to Shakedown and Media Rides. At 1500hrs we then move into recce or the best Super Special Stage run in Australia since the WRC was held at Langley Park. Teams will have their cars in the holding area at the Stadium Track at “The Bend Motorsport Park” at 1730hrs before the first cars hit the track at 1800hrs. Two cars will be match raced off against each other twice to see who will lead the event into the start of day 2. General, Family, Concession and Corporate Admission. Saturday will see the spectacular 37km mega stage run twice, which will be a good hit out to stretch their legs for the ARC cars heading on to the WRC in Coffs Harbour in November. Sunday, we head to the Mt Crawford Forest in the morning before returning to the Adelaide Hills stages. We are lucky to have the Mawson Road stage back in rallying in Australia. The event will have 2 spectating areas, one at Anderson Hill Winery and the other at Pike & Joyce Winery, where lunch and drinks will be supplied in the ticket price. We hope you enjoy the food vans and the displays in the activations area on the main oval in Mount Barker. A Virtual Rally Experience will be available for all to test their driving skills in the main Pavilion, with results and rally videos being displayed on the super screen throughout the event. There will be plenty of tables and chairs for families to be able to sit down and enjoy the rally experience. Have a wonderful and successful event and please stay safe and well. Andrew Admiraal, Michael Clements, Event Director Clerk-of-Course 5 2018 CAMS AUSTRALIAN RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP SO FAR Harry Bates and John McCarthy gave the Toyota Yaris AP4 its maiden CAMS Australian Rally Championship round 1 victory at The Courier Eureka Rally on March 3-4 near Ballarat. Bates took out heat wins on both Saturday and Sunday to claim 11 of 15 stages, finishing heat two 28 seconds ahead of Steve Glenney and Michael Potter (Subaru WRX STi). Glenney made a stellar return to the ARC as a driver after a ten-year absence, claiming second for the round with a string of fast and consistent stage times. Tankformers Eli Evans and Ben Searcy (Mini Cooper AP4) rounded out the podium in their first event together, finishing Sunday’s heat in fourth position behind Glen Raymond and Kate Catford (Mitsubishi Evo IX) but with enough points from heat one to claim third for the round. In the ARC 2WD championship, reigning champions Adam Kaplan and Aleshia Penney (Mazda RX7) took out the round win by just one point from Jason Lennane and Amanda Ramia (Proton Satria 2000).