Ken McKay and his rally team headed off to Melbourne on August 5 to participate in a trip of a lifetime around Australia in the Repco Reliability Retrial.
2019 sees the 40th anniversary of the great event.
The team had an early issue with fuel on the trip but they have continued on with a smooth run since.
As part of the team, Ken will take his turn driving the support truck.
The team is leaving Eucla today after completing a trek from Ceduna.
The 1979 Repco, often known as the Repco Round Australia, was a 14 day car trial circumnavigating the island continent of Australia. 167 crews started the event with 92 classified as finishers, however only 13 cars completed the entire route.
It is approximately 19,000 km and comprises both competitive sections and transport sections , the latter in theory being easily able to be completed while driving at a fairly sedate pace on normal public roads with many other road users. In modern lingo these are called liaison sections. In fact some of the competitive sections were designated as special stages, timed to the second and on closed roads, but most of the competitive sections were on remote, albeit non-closed roads, and were timed to the minute.
