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Australian Cannonball Cup — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cannonball_Cup
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  title = {Australian Cannonball Cup — Wikipedia (en)},
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  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cannonball_Cup},
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  year = {2026}
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cannonball_Cup. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

The Australian Cannonball Cup was a car race held in 1984 on public roads between Melbourne and Perth, Australia. Although the event was originally promoted as timed race with very few rules similar to the American Cannonball Run, after significant negative publicity the organizers insisted the event was a navigation and endurance rally and instituted a disqualification rule if drivers were caught by police for a driving offence. The entry fee was $550 per team, and first prize was $10,000. 76 teams had entered but a significant number pulled out prior to the start, leaving 33 teams to compete. The race started on Friday, 2 November 1984 at a private farm in Diggers Rest on the outskirts of Melbourne. Teams could choose any route but had to pass through two checkpoints. The first checkpoint was at Berri, South Australia and the second at Albany, Western Australia. The race was closely followed by police in all three states that it passed through. Many drivers were booked or arrested. Vehicles were checked for roadworthiness, some on more than one occasion, and at least one vehicle was ordered off the road in Western Australia. On Sunday 4 November the first team arrived at the finish in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 32 hours and 22 minutes. Some weeks after the race the organizers disqualified the winning car due to the drivers having been caught by police for a driving offence. The second placed team was then awarded the win. No other disqualifications were announced, despite a significant number of other teams having been caught by police. The race organizer suffered financial problems and no prize money was paid out. A second event was planned for 1985 but never ran.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Australian Cannonball Cup» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cannonball_Cup
Wikidata Q29305581: «street race from Melbourne to Perth held in 1984» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29305581
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cannonball_Cup?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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