1973 Australian Rally Championship

none March 2015 March 2015 1973 Australian Rally Championship 1972 1974 thumb|1973 ARC winners Peter Lang and Warwick Smith in the HDT XU-1 Torana The 1973 Australian Rally Championship was a series of six rallying events held across Australia. It was the sixth season in the history of the competition. Peter Lang and navigator Warwick Smith in the Holden Torana GTR XU-1 were the winners of the 1973 Championship. Season review The sixth Australian Rally Championship was decided over six events, staged across the Eastern States of Australia with two events each in New South Wales and Victoria and one each in Queensland and South Australia.http://www.begavalleyrally.com.au/history/ Bega Valley Rally website 1 November 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20140302071747/http://www.begavalleyrally.com.au/history/ 2 March 2014 dead dmy-all The series saw more domination from the Holden Torana GTR XU-1's which won all six rounds, three wins for Peter Lang/Warwick Smith, two wins for Colin Bond/George Shepheard and one win for Steward McLeod/Adrian Mortimer. Lang and Smith managed high placings in the events that they didn't win and thus convincingly took out the 1973 championship. The Rallies The six events of the 1973 season were as follows.http://www.begavalleyrally.com.au/history/ Bega Valley Rally 1 November 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20140302071747/http://www.begavalleyrally.com.au/history/ 2 March 2014 dead dmy-all Australian Competition Yearbook 1974 Round Rally Date 1 Uniroyal Southern Rally (SA) 10/11 March 1973 2 Classic Rally (VIC) 24/25 March 1973 3 Bunbury Curran (NSW) 14/15 April 1973 4 Bega Valley Rally (NSW) 2–4 June 1973 5 Warana Rally (QLD) 22/23 September 1973 6 Alpine Rally (VIC) 8/9 December 1973 Round One – Uniroyal Southern 500 Rally Position Driver Navigator Car Points 1 Stewart McLeod Adrian Mortimer Torana GTR XU-1 68 2 Dean Rainsford Graham West Citroen GS 78 3 Tony Roberts Jeff Beaumont Peugeot 504 79 4 Colin Bond George Shepheard Torana GTR XU-1 87 5 Bob Holden Roger Bonhomme Torana GTR XU-1 100 6 Frank Kilfoyle Mike Osborne Datsun 240Z 107 Round Two – Classic Rally Position Driver Navigator Car Points 1 Colin Bond George Shepheard Torana GTR XU-1 79 2 Peter Lang Warwick Smith Torana GTR XU-1 96 3 Tony Roberts Jeff Beaumont Peugeot 504 112 4 Ed Mulligan Mike Batten Mazda RX-2 Coupe 119 5 Stewart McLeod Adrian Mortimer Torana GTR XU-1 135 6 Bruce Hodgson Fred Gocentas Ford XA Falcon GTHO n/a Round Three – Bunbury Curran Rally Position Driver Navigator Car Points 1 Peter Lang Warwick Smith Torana GTR XU-1 24 =2 Stewart McLeod Adrian Mortimer Datsun 240Z 38 =2 Frank Kilfoyle Mike Osborne Datsun 240Z 38 4 Tony Roberts Jeff Beaumont Peugeot 504 53 5 Bruce Hodgson Fred Gocentas Ford XA Falcon GTHO 65 6 Wal Glass R Smith Holden HR 75 Round Four – Bega Valley Rally Position Driver Navigator Car Points 1 Peter Lang Warwick Smith Torana GTR XU-1 79 2 Colin Bond George Shepheard Torana GTR XU-1 84 3 Ed Mulligan Mike Batten Mazda RX-2 Coupe 85 4 Stewart McLeod Adrian Mortimer Torana GTR XU-1 97 5 Roy Denny Richard Denny Triumph 2.5 PI 181 6 Wal Glass R Smith Holden HR n/a Round Five – Warana Rally Position Driver Navigator Car Points 1 Colin Bond George Shepheard Torana GTR XU-1 40 2 Ed Mulligan Mike Batten Mazda RX-2 Coupe 61 3 John Shera Lloyd Meller Mazda 1300 104 4 Peter Lang Warwick Smith Torana GTR XU-1 106 5 Bryan Evans Barry Lake Datsun 240Z 115 6 Jim Reddiex Moss Pollack Citroen GS 168 Round Six – Golden Alpine Rally Note that Kilfoyle and Osborne won this event outright in a works Datsun 180B SSS but were ineligible for ARC points. Position Driver Navigator Car Points 1 Peter Lang Warwick Smith Torana GTR XU-1 118 2 Stewart McLeod Adrian Mortimer Torana GTR XU-1 132 3 Bruce Hodgson Fred Gocentas Ford XA Falcon GTHO 147 4 Ed Mulligan Mike Batten Mazda RX-2 Coupe 156 5 Colin Bond George Shepheard Torana GTR XU-1 744 6 Roy Denny Richard Denny Triumph 2.5 PI 776 1973 Drivers and Navigators Championships Final pointscore for 1973 is as follows. Peter Lang – Champion Driver 1973 Position Driver Car Points 1 Peter Lang Torana GTR XU-1 36 2 Colin Bond Torana GTR XU-1 29 3 Stewart McLeod Torana GTR XU-1 25 4 Ed Mulligan Mazda RX-2 Coupe 16 5 Tony Roberts Peugeot 504 & Saab 11 6 Bruce Hodgson Falcon GT 7 =7 Dean Rainsford Citroen GS 6 =7 Frank Kilfoyle Datsun 240Z 6 9 John Shera Mazda 1300 4 10 Bryan Evans Datsun 240Z 2 Warwick Smith – Champion Navigator 1973 Position Navigator Car Points 1 Warwick Smith Torana GTR XU-1 36 2 George Shepheard Torana GTR XU-1 29 3 Adrian Mortimer Torana GTR XU-1 25 4 Mike Batten Mazda RX-2 Coupe 16 5 Jeff Beaumont Peugeot 504 & Saab 11 6 Fred Gocentas Falcon GT 7 =7 Grahame West Citroen GS 6 =7 Mike Osborne Datsun 240Z 6 9 Lloyd Meller Mazda 1300 4 10 Barry Lake Datsun 240Z 2 References External links Results of Snowy Mountains Rally and ARC results. Rally Championship Category:Rally competitions in Australia Category:1973 in rallying