OUTBACK CANNONBALL RUN NORTHERN TERRITORY DAY 41
One hundred and thirty km/h is the maximum legal speed on the Stuart Highway to the NT/SA border
Present day, some claim unrestricted speed is still allowed. Due to high temperatures, the frequency of roadtrains, no fencing, and roaming wildlife it's likely ill advised to drive above the recommended speeds.
Northern Territory Cannonball Run. 1994. Darwin to Alice Springs (Ayers Rock) and return. A legal event. Entry fee of $7500 Total distance driven of about 3200 kilometres. Reportedly 142 individuals entered. Some sharing with co-drivers. Near Alice Springs a Ferrari F40 lost control, hit and killed two officials at a checkpoint, went onto gravel and hit a parked Jeep. Two occupants in the car and two officials killed. After much discussion and delay the event continued and finished in Darwin. First place taken by a Porsche 911 Turbo. The event was never to be run again. Impossible to see how any timed event could ever be held today over similar public roads due to much more awareness and enforcement of safety concerns.
Northern Territory Finke Desert Race
The two day Finke Desert Race for off road vehicles is probably the best way to race outside of a closed racetrack. Alice Springs to the Finke River community cross country is about two hundred km return as the crow flies. The inaugural race was held in the year 1976. As an interesting observation, the Cannonball Run Memorial site on the Stuart Highway is about 170 km north-west as the crow flies of the overnight rest stage at the Finke Community. Quite close considering the huge area of the Northern Territory.
Traveldriven
TRY TO AVOID SOLO NIGHT DRIVING
DRIVE ALICE SPRINGS - ERIDUNDA -
YULARA RESORT (THE ROCK)
CANNONBALL RUN
CANNONBALL RUN MONUMENT BETWEEN ALICE SPRINGS AND ERLDUNDA ROADHOUSE
