The event started and finished in Sydney with the three rest breaks in Port Macquarie. We have only recently obtained a copy of the route instructions. More detail will be added in due course.
A plot of the stages on rally-maps.com
Day 1
The event started in the Sydney Domain at 12 noon. Division 1 took crews via Windsor and Wisemans Ferry to Newcastle for a mealbreak. Several section completed Division 1 to Gloucester including Salisbury Gap (23.5 miles in 30 minutes), Main Creek (8.6 miles in 11 minutes) and Terrible Billy (7.72 miles in 10 minutes).
Division 2 began with Rawdon Vale (15.29 miles in 20 minutes) then some easy sections northwards before two very competitive section in the forests south-west of Port Macquarie, namely Kerewong (20.40 miles in 30 minutes) and Bulls Ground (18.3 miles in 23 minutes).
Day 2
Division 3 ran north from Port Macquarie to Grafton. The most competitive sections were Seven Mile Climb (39.4 miles in 57 minutes), two short forestry sections (2.45 miles in 6 minutes and 4.6 miles in 6 minutes) then Neaves Road west of Dorrigo (8.9 miles in 12 minutes), Corfes Road east of Dorrigo (26.4 miles in 36 minutes), Lowanna (5.11 miles in 7 minutes) and Coldwater Creek Road out to Nana Glen (9.12 miles in 12 minutes).
After the Grafton mealbreak, Division 4 took crews back to Port Macquarie. Most of the sections were pretty straightforward, the only one to take time from all crews was Green Bluff (27.64 miles in 40 minutes).
Day 3
Division 5 headed generally westwards from Port Macquarie, the main sections being Kerriki Creek (27.71 miles in 39 minutes) and Tobins Camp (16.54 miles in 21 minutes).
After the Tamworth mealbreak, Division 6 headed back east to Port Macquarie taking in Oakbourne (13.64 miles in 19 minutes) and Rollands Plains (23.71 miles in 30 minutes and another at 24.19 miles in 30 minutes).
Day 4
Division 7 initially headed north-west from Port Macquarie taking in Mount Boss (19.75 miles in 26 minutes) and then south over the Oxley Highway to Cells Creek (42.98 miles in 55 minutes). Two more section took crews to Gloucester for a mealbreak - Mt. George (Black Flat Lane, 6.71 miles in 9 minutes) and Pillochri (24.85 miles in 32 minutes).
Division 8 took crews to the finish in Sydney at 3 pm, but the real competition took place in the Barrington Tops Forest to the north-west of Gloucester with a monster section to Nundle over steep and rutted mountain tracks (122 miles in 165 minutes). The stage had reportedly only been surveyed a week or so before the event and was a closely guarded secret. It was so secret in fact that the route instructions below do not contain that stage because they were issued on the night.
