1976 Southern Cross Rally

The 1976 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally was the eleventh running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 9th and the 14th of October 1976. The event covered 3,334 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie.[1] It was won by Andrew Cowan and Fred Gocentas, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.

1976 Southern Cross Rally
Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally
Host countryAustralia Australia
Rally baseSydney
Port Macquarie
Dates run9 – 14 October 1976
Stages48 (2,132.50 km; 1,325.07 miles)
Stage surfaceTarmac and Gravel
Overall distance3,334.41 km (2,071.91 miles)
Results
Overall winnerUnited Kingdom Andrew Cowan
Australia Fred Gocentas
Australia Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd
Crews88 at start, 22 at finish

Results
Pos No Entrant Drivers Car Penalties (Points)
1 6 Australia Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd United Kingdom Andrew Cowan
Australia Fred Gocentas		 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 157
2 9 Australia Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Australia Barry Ferguson
Australia Neil Faulkner		 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 203
3 4 Australia Nissan Motor Australia Kenya Shekhar Mehta
Australia Adrian Mortimer		 Datsun 710 SSS 205
4 19 Australia Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Australia Doug Stewart
Australia John Dawson-Damer		 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 271
5 14 Australia Mitsubishi (Australia) Pty Ltd Japan Kenjiro Shinozuka
Australia Garry Connelly		 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 324
6 16 Australia Nissan Motor Australia Sweden Per-Inge Walfridsson
Australia Peter Godden		 Datsun 710 SSS 348
7 34 Australia I.W. Hill Australia Ian Hill
Australia Graham Roser		 Mitsubishi Lancer 391
8 27 Australia David Bond Australia David Bond
Australia Ian Richards		 Mitsubishi Lancer 418
9 31 Australia Murray Coote Australia Murray Coote
Australia Brian Marsden		 Datsun 1200 437
10 28 Australia A. Crawford Australia Peter Janson
Australia Paul Paterson		 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR 453
11 64 Australia B.E. Clark Australia Brian Clark
Australia Peter Hardy		 Mitsubishi Galant 561
12 46 Japan Mitso Ayabe Japan Mitso Ayabe
Japan Shigeru Imai		 Toyota Trueno 670
13 48 Australia Gary Meehan Australia Gary Meehan
Australia Martin Fell		 Toyota Corolla 688
14 2 Australia Ford Motor Company of Australia United Kingdom Roger Clark
United Kingdom Jim Porter		 Ford Escort RS 1800 Mark II 855
15 25 Australia Jim Reddiex Australia Jim Reddiex
Australia Greg Sked		 Citroën CX2200 1069
16 58 Australia Dr. J. Munro Australia John Munro
Australia Wal Harris		 Datsun 180B 1146
17 51 Australia David Balmain Australia David Balmain
Australia Guenter Nowacki		 Mitsubishi Lancer 1355
18 53 Japan Hideya Satoh Japan Hideya Satoh
Japan Tarao Mitsuaki		 Mitsubishi Lancer 1805
19 65 Japan Akira Tezuna Japan Akira Tezuna
Japan Yukio Iwashita		 Mitsubishi Lancer 1942
20 69 Australia W.C. Adams Racing Australia Bill Adams
Australia Keith Snowball		 Holden Torana LJ XU-1 2530
21 20 Australia Brut Team Alfa Australia Evan Green
Australia John Bryson		 Alfa Romeo Alfetta GT 2905
22 76 Japan Team Route 6 Japan Japan Hisashi Shimura
Japan Kazuo Takahashi		 Honda Civic 4935
Source:[2][3][4]

References
  1. Dan White. "1976 Route".
  2. Dan White. "1976 - Cowan's last win".
  3. Dan White. "1976 Entries".
  4. "Cowan wins Fifth Rally in a Row". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 October 1976.
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