2014 Australian Rally Championship

The 2014 East Coast Bullbars Australian Rally Championship was the 47th season of the Australian Rally Championship, one of the world's oldest continuously run rally championships. The season began 28 February at the National Capital Rally, and ended 15 November at Rally Victoria, after six events. The championship incorporated two international events; Round 5 was a World Rally Championship event, Rally Australia, while Round 3, the International Rally of Queensland was a round of the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. Each domestic rally was contested over two heats, with three or four components to the two international events.^[1]

The championship was won for the first time by Scott Pedder, taking a total of eight heat wins and the overall wins for the two international events. He won the title by 44 points ahead of Brendan Reeves, who took 5 heat wins during the season. Third place in the championship was taken by Adrian Coppin, who took podium placings in eight heats without victory. The only other driver to take a heat win was Steven Mackenzie, who won the final heat of the season, at Rally Victoria.

Event calendar and results

The 2014 Australian Rally Championship was as follows:^[1]

Round	Rally name		Podium finishers				Statistics
			Rank	Driver	Car	Time	Stages	Length	Starters	Finishers
1	National Capital Rally	Heat 1 (28 February–1 March)[2]	1	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:20:23.0	8	108.22 km	56	44
			2	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:20:51.5
			3	Neal Bates	Toyota Celica	1:21:25.7
		Heat 2 (2 March)[3]	1	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	50:03.8	7	81.94 km	56	41
			2	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	50:09.2
			3	Richie Dalton	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	50:57.2
2	Quit Forest Rally	Heat 1 (4–5 April)[4]	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:08:06.6	10	104.43 km	74	57
			2	Dylan King	Subaru Impreza WRX	1:08:13.3
			3	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:08:39.4
		Heat 2 (6 April)[5]	1	Dylan King	Subaru Impreza WRX	1:09:01.9	8	111.76 km	53	44
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:10:03.3
			3	Doug Tostevin	Subaru Impreza WRX STI	1:10:15.3
3	International Rally of Queensland	Heat 1 (20–21 June)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:14:06.7	10	118.60 km	47	33
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:15:08.9
			3	Matt van Tuinen	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	1:15:51.7
		Heat 2 (22 June)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:07:11.7	5	103.70 km	43	26
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:08:12.2
			3	Peter Roberts	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	1:08:43.3
		Overall (20–22 June)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	2:21:18.4	15	222.30 km	41	21
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	2:23:21.1
			3	Peter Roberts	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	2:26:30.2
4	Scouts Rally SA	Heat 1 (1 August)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	16:36.5	3	26.53 km	21	17
			2	Henry Nott	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	16:37.5
			3	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	16:49.0
		Heat 2 (2 August)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	48:34.8	9	85.44 km	40	24
			2	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	49:22.0
			3	Adrian Coppin	Citroën DS3 R3T	50:56.8
		Heat 3 (3 August)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	32:20.9	7	54.38 km	35	32
			2	Henry Nott	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	32:42.5
			3	Neal Bates	Toyota Celica	33:12.0
5	Rally Australia	Heat 1 (11–12 September)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	1:05:56.6	8	95.84 km	44	39
			2	Michael Boaden	Volkswagen Polo Vivo	1:08:32.7
			3	Mick Patton	Volkswagen Polo Vivo	1:10:49.7
		Heat 2 (13 September)	1	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	1:13:52.6	6	116.80 km	40	36
			2	Adrian Coppin	Citroën DS3 R3T	1:16:43.7
			3	Michael Boaden	Volkswagen Polo Vivo	1:16:45.9
		Heat 3 (14 September)	1	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	48:32.3	5	78.74 km	37	30
			2	Adrian Coppin	Citroën DS3 R3T	50:08.5
			3	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	50:27.6
		Overall (11–14 September)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	3:13:57.1	19	291.38 km	44	30
			2	Mick Patton	Volkswagen Polo Vivo	3:23:41.5
			3	Adrian Coppin	Citroën DS3 R3T	3:29:57.4
6	Rally Victoria	Heat 1 (14 November)	1	Scott Pedder	Renault Clio R3	42:58.2	4	63.30 km	35	29
			2	Richie Dalton	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	43:05.9
			3	Brendan Reeves	Mazda 2	43:12.7
		Heat 2 (15 November)	1	Justin Dowel	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	1:31:44.6	9	136.36 km	56	47
			2	Henry Nott	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	1:32:04.5
			3	Steven Mackenzie	Ford Fiesta ST	1:33:19.0

Championship standings

The 2014 Australian Rally Championship points were as follows:^[6]

Australian Championship

Position Driver Vehicle Capital Forest Queensland SA Australia Victoria Total H1 H2 H1 H2 H1 H2 Ove. H1 H2 H3 H1 H2 H3 Ove. H1 H2 1 Scott Pedder Renault Clio R3 4 2 ^1 1 5 ^6 1 1 1 ^6 1 1 1 ^6 1 4 3 1 ^1 1 2 483 2 Brendan Reeves Mazda 2 1 1 ^6 2 1 ^3 2 2 2 2 2 5 ^3 Ret 1 1 5 ^5 2 5 ^6 439 3 Adrian Coppin Citroën DS3 R3T 3 3 3 3 5 6 5 ^1 3 3 6 ^1 5 2 2 3 ^1 4 4 361 4 Tony Sullens Citroën DS3 R3T 5 Ret 4 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 6 5 4 ^3 3 3 ^1 333 5 Alan Roe Ford Focus Ret 4 5 4 ^1 6 Ret 3 5 6 152 6 Michael Patton Volkswagen Polo Vivo 6 5 Ret Ret Ret 5 Ret 3 5 6 2 123 7 Steven Mackenzie Ford Fiesta 2 6 EX Ret 4 EX Ret 1 117 8 Michael Boaden Volkswagen Polo Vivo Ret Ret 4 4 4 ^3 5 Ret 2 2 3 Ret Ret 115 9 Eli Evans Volkswagen Polo Vivo Ret Ret ^3 Ret Ret ^3 6

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)

References

1. "2014 Season Calendar". rally.com.au. 14 October 2013. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
2. eWRC-results.com - rally database
3. eWRC-results.com - rally database
4. eWRC-results.com - rally database
5. eWRC-results.com - rally database
6. "2014 Australian Rally Champion ‐ Driver Pointscore ‐ Provisional" (PDF). rally.com.au. Retrieved 19 April 2014.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

• Official website