The Australian rally series always features some great and classic Nissans and Datsuns. The National Capital Rally, the first event of the Australian Rally Championship 2013 season was no exception.
Will Orders and his Nissan Silvia S13 as well as Jack Monkhouse and his similar Silvia S15 fought for the top of the podium most of the weekend. Orders would DNF in day two but Monkhouse would finish on the podium in third with the Honda Jazz and Renault Clio of Eli Evans and Scot Pedder (respectively) finishing one and two.
Beyond the Silvia's of Orders and Monkhouse however there were a number of other Nissan/Datsuns in the event including the Datsun 510 of Claude Murray which took the Classic class win for the weekend. Other models seen in this event include a Datsun 180B, Nissan Bluebird, a Datsun 1200, and a Datsun 1600.
Australian Rally Series...
The 2013 Quit Forest Rally was this past weekend and once again a number of new and classic Nissans/Datsuns attended. In fact the only three classic class vehicles to show were all Datsuns. Jack Monkhouse performed well in his Silvia finishing 6th but unfortunately Will Orders and his Silvia didn't finish either day one or two and received no points. There was also a cool 370Z of Nicholas Box competing which ended up in a ton of photos (some of which are below). The photos I've seen so far are just of the top class so none of 180B, 1200 Coupe or 180SX that appeared in some of the other classes...Hopefully I can track some down and get them up...
