VICRALLY PLANNING POST COVID-19

VicRally Planning Post COVID-19

The Victorian Rally Panel (VRP) has announced a provisional draft calendar for the 2020 Victorian Rally Championship which at this stage contains three rounds.

By DAN McCARTHY

Last week the Victorian Rally Championship directors and representatives met up with VCRS representatives to talk about what the calendar could look like, if the Covid-19 restrictions continue to lift.

Due to the small dose of new cases popping up around the state, Victoria is one of the states furthest behind with its COVID-19 regulations. Victorians are still limited to a maximum outdoor gathering of 20 people, while in other states such as Western Australia people will be allowed to run an outdoor event of up to 300 people from June 6.

The group of directors and representatives understood this and the fact that the health and wellbeing of competitors and organisers is of uppermost importance.

The VRP got in contact with the NSWRP to discuss its plans to go back racing on July 4 and the Rally of the Bay event organisers kindly shared their documentation and logistical requirements in order to get their event up and going.

Taking this advice on board and the fact that restrictions in the state are slowly being lifted a draft calendar was created based on the fact that by September it may be possible to hold a rally event.

At this stage three rounds are scheduled, however, the ideal scenario is to run four events.

The opening event, the Western Victoria Crane Trucks Valley Stages event is pencilled in for September 20 start date, this would be followed by a round at Akademos on October 18 and the Bagshot Rallysprint six days later on October 24.

It is planned that another event will conclude the series in November or early December.

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