Hi everyone,

I received this email on Friday and was awaiting the formal announcemnts before forwarding it on.

The first one below is from Adrian Dudock, the chief NatCat Rally organiser & Clerk of Course. The following section is from Ellie Yates, the NatCap publicity person. Note that the Canberra Times article on the link has a few errors, where they say "NCR" they normally mean "APRC" as of course the actual National Capital Rally has been running for many many years in one guise or another.

It's too early to be taking 'expressions of interest' but at least there is a date that we can pencil in on next years calendar !

Please feel free to post on Social Media, etc, if you are so inclined.

Cheers,

...Phil Longworth VK1PL

================================================= Morning all.

I can finally communicate with you about next year's event.

After the club's (BMSC) decision after this year's event to not continue with the APRC we were going to run a really great ARC, the date we ended up with was the weekend after the Bathurst 1000 in October, not ideal but we were on the calendar.

For 2018 there are 3 events that want to be considered for ARC status so we at least kept our date.

We brokered a deal with Netier to be the naming right sponsors, but we lost the Doma group through no fault of the event.

We are working on a new accommodation partners as we speak.

The last ten days have been interesting to say the least, CAMS approached me with an offer of getting the APRC back in Canberra, after much negotiation and soul searching we came to an agreement so,

The "Netier National Capital Rally" will be an APRC round and run on the 1 - 3 June 2018, we should be super proud that the powers that be felt us worth supporting to bring the event back here.

An official announcement will be made by CAMS and Netier over the weekend and from there we are all go.

Adrian

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Hi all,

Update on media stories,

Please post to social media and send to everyone we need to.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/act-sport/national-capital-rally-secur...

https://rallysportmag.com/aprc-round-remain-canberra-despite-earlier-reports...

Thanks

Ellie

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