Poatina Mountain Race 2017

About the Event

The fourth annual running of the Poatina Mountain Race presented by Buckby Jaguar, will occur on Sunday 10 December 2017.

Production car-based circuit, sports and rally cars are all eligible for participation in categories:

• Buckby Jaguar Mountain Rally (Driver and co-driver competition)
• Petrusma Property Mountain Race (Driver only competition)
• Poatina Village Touring (Non-competition speed limited)

The inaugural event in 2014 was the first in a new generation of Australian motorsport event. Held on the same road and on the same day, the first event combined a European-style long-course hillclimb event, with a sprint format tarmac rally competition.

Presented by Buckby Jaguar, the 2017 Poatina Mountain Race remains based at the purpose-built village that once served as home to hydro-electric power station construction workforce. Today Poatina is a close-knit community that welcomes visitors with accommodation, a restaurant, cafe and even a golf course amongst its picturesque view of the green and mountainous Norfolk Plains and Great Western Tiers.

In 2014, the inaugural event's outright and tarmac rally and outright winners were Hobart's Matt Rickards and Michael Potter, in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX RS.  Hobart based Jamie Longergan won the long-course hillclimb category in his 1989 Nissan Skyline GT-R.

The 2015 event's outright winners were Adam Garwood of Launceston and Queensland co-driver Cameron Reeves, who won the rally in their 2007 Porsche GT3 Cup, while Hobart's Jamie Lonergan again defended his hillclimb title in a Nissan GT-R.

The 2016 event's outright winners were Hobart's Mike Pritchard co-driver Michael Hutchinson, who took out the rally in their 2016 Dodge Viper ACR, while Hobart's Damien Moore scored the hillclimb crown in his turbocharged Ford Escort.

The 2017 event again provides closed road tarmac rally competition over a nine kilometre stretch of Poatina Road, a stunning piece of former Hydro-Electric Commission constructed tarmac that has an elevation gain of some 580 metres, snaking up Mount Blackwood from the Norfolk Plains to the Central Plateau of Northern Tasmania.

During the course of the day, teams will competed six times over the technical course which features an exciting mix of tight and twisty sections, as well as fast and flowing corners.

Poatina Village will again play host to the event’s start and finish celebrations, as well as service park and regroup area.

Poatina Mountain Race is sanctioned by the Australian Auto-Sport Alliance.

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Event Info

Competitor Documentation

Pre and on-event documentation and bulletins
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Entry List

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Supplementary Regulations

Written with the competitor front of mind
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Course Map

Course overview diagram
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Officials

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Where to stay

Information on accommodation at Poatina
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Spectator Information

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