{"id":767344,"date":"2026-06-29T07:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:51:23","slug":"harry-bates-and-coral-taylor-dominate-australian-rally-championshipnarooma-forest-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/767344\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Bates and Coral Taylor dominate Australian Rally ChampionshipNarooma Forest Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Toyota Gazoo Racing pair notched up their second overall win of the season in Round 3, leading the way comfortably across both days.<\/p>\n

Claiming eight of the 12 stages, the pair came home on Sunday a comfortable 13 seconds clear of the lead Pedders Rally Team entry of Scott Pedder and Glenn Macneall.<\/p>\n

The final stage on Sunday sealed the crushing victory for the championship leaders, coming home five seconds ahead of the Pedders Skoda.<\/p>\n

Entering the weekend just 10 points clear of Pedder and Macneall, Harry acknowledged the close championship fight expected for the final three rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a pretty incredible weekend. It\u2019s my home rally, so to win both heats, the overall event victory, and the record for the most ARC heat wins, which is something I\u2019ve been chasing for a while, feels pretty special,\u201d Harry said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re halfway through the championship now, and it\u2019s still incredibly close between the top three.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNone of us have been able to build a significant gap over the others, so I\u2019m expecting the second half of the season to be just as tight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt this weekend was important for our championship campaign because we managed to extend our points buffer over Scott and Glenn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that said, it\u2019s far from over. Tasmania is an endurance event, and you have to make it to the finish to score the points. It was a great weekend for us, but there\u2019s still a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lewis Bates and Anthony McLoughlin claimed both Power Stages to take home full bonus points, but could not overcome the time deficit to their TGR teammates.<\/p>\n

The second Pedders entry of Jackson Long and his father Damien finished fourth overall, a turnaround in fortunes for the pair after a difficult start to the season.<\/p>\n

Long moves into fourth in the championship standings, while Toby Price and Ben Searcy drop to seventh outright due to the Subaru WRX Challenge class not competing in Narooma.<\/p>\n

Josh Redhead and Ray Winwood-Smith rounded out the overall top five, taking class honours in the Wolf Sports Cup for production cars.<\/p>\n

The EROAD Australian Rally Championship now heads south to the Apple Isle for Rally Tasmania on August 14-16.<\/p>\n

Harry and Taylor carry a 30-point lead over Pedder and Macneall, with Lewis and McLoughlin a further 12 points back in third spot.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Bates and Coral Taylor took a dominant victory in the Narooma Forest Rally. Image: Supplied The Toyota…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,31148,365272,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-767344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-rally-championship","tag-harry-bates","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}