1970 Ampol Trial

16mm short film narrated by John Laws.

The 1970 Ampol Trial was the first 'Round Australia' trial since the 1964 Ampol Trial and would be the last such event until the 1979 Repco Reliability Trial.

Directed by Carl Kennedy for the Australian Racing Drivers Club, the event consisted of an “assembly” rally to Alice Springs followed by the trial proper.
The event finished in Sydney where the joint winners were Edgar Herrman and Hans Schuller in a Datsun 1600 and Jean-Claude and Lucette Ogier in a Citroen DS 21.

The route of the 1970 Ampol Trial went from Alice Springs through to Mount Isa, Cooktown, Cairns, Townsville, Brisbane, Baradine, Wagga, Murrayville, Adelaide, Melbourne, Albury, Bathurst to Sydney.

There were two parts of the route that were in Victoria. First, on the division between Wagga and Adelaide, the route traversed the Moonlight Tank Road through the Big Desert. After Adelaide, there was a fairly easy run through western Victoria to a break in Melbourne followed by serious competitive stages through Matlock, Jamieson, Whitfield and Beechworth to Albury.

[Text from Rallypedia]