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Barratt heads Down Under for finale
World Rallying's leading lady, Natalie Barratt,
heads Down Under this weekend for the final round
of the 2005 season, the Telstra Rally
Australia.
The OMV World Rally Team driver will tackle the
spectacular Perth-based event behind the wheel of
her favoured Subaru Impreza with Finland's, Kaj
Lindstrom, assisting from the co-driver's seat
again.
Sixty-two cars, representing no fewer than
eighteen nationalities, are lined up to tackle the
demanding special stages.
It is not the first time the Manchester driver
has ventured onto the perilous Australian 'red
marble gravel'.
"It really is a great rally, but it is certainly
one of the trickiest on the calendar too," she
explained. "The surface of the road is like red
marble which means it's very slippy, whether it's
wet or dry and it's often difficult to see the
edges of the road.
"The stages are generally very narrow and there
is no room for error, but like any rally, you have
to be 100% committed.
"There are long road sections between the stages
and the service, so even if you sustain minor
damage to the car - which is pretty easy to do with
the amount of tree stumps on the rally, the
likelihood of making it back to service and staying
in the rally is dramatically reduced.
"These long road sections mean your chances of
making it to service, and remedial help from the
team for even the smallest error or mechanical
failure could be massively jeopardised."
Rally Australia is also home to the legendary
'Sotico' forestry complex and the awesome 'Bunnings
Jumps' where the cars literally 'take off' before a
spectacular splash down in a watery ford. "Without
question, I think it is one of the most spectacular
finishes to the World Rally," adds Barratt.
Rallies a Mitsubishi in
the British Championship.
Biography
Date of birth: 06.03.75
Lives: Alderley Edge, Cheshire (UK)
Status: Single
Rally debut: 1996
WRC debut: 1998 Rally GB
Rally Highlights
2005 FIA Production Car World Rally
Championship - Mitsubishi Lancer
2004 FIA Junior World Rally
Championship
2003 Racing a SEAT Leon Cupra R in the
SEAT Cupra Championship. Selected Clio Cup
Races
2002 Gp N Mitsubishi Lancer - Sweden and
Cyprus Rallies, Hyundai Accent WRC1 - Catalunya,
Rally of Wales, Hyundai Accent WRC2 - Acropolis,
Punchestown (Ireland), Hyundai Accent WRC3 - Rally
New Zealand: 1st Lady; 21st o/a, Hyundai Accent
WRC3 - Rally GB: 1st Lady; 22nd o/a
2001 Gp N Mitsubishi Lancer - FIA Teams'
Cup - 5th, Swedish Rally 1st Lady; 7th Teams' Cup;
8th Gp N; 29th o/a,Cyprus Rally 1st Lady; 3rd
Teams' Cup; 8th Gp N; 21st o/a, Acropolis Rally 1st
Lady; 4th Teams' Cup; 10th Gp N; 35th o/a, New
Zealand Rally 1st Lady; 10th Gp N; 36th o/a, Rally
Australia 1st Lady; 5th Teams' Cup; 19th Gp N; 36th
o/a
2000 Gp N Mitsubishi Lancer - rounds of
the World and British Championships, Rally GB: 2nd
Lady; 14th Gp N; 35th o/a, Corsica: 1st Lady; 15th
Gp N; 33rd o/a, Donegal Int Rally: 1st Lady; 3rd Gp
N; 12th o/a, Rallye Charlemagne: 1st Lady; 12th o/a
(French Division 1 Rally), Scottish Rally: 20th
o/a, Kall Kwik Rally: 9th o/a, Catalunya Rally: 1st
Lady; 15th class; 38th o/a;, Rally of Wales: 1st
Lady; 17th o/a, Arctic Rally: 1st overseas Lady;
47th o/a, National RallySprint Championship
contender
1999 Gp N Mitsubishi Lancer - rounds of
the World and British Championships, Rally GB: 1st
Lady; 12th Gp N; 37th o/a (started car #115), Mid
Wales Rally: 1st Lady; 9th o/a, Manx Int. Rally:
1st Lady; 9th o/a, Jim Clark Rally: 21st o/a,
Scottish Int. Rally: 17th o/a
1998 Gp A Honda Civic Vti / Gp N
Mitsubishi Lancer - British Championship. Series:
3rd Ladies Cup; 4th Class A6, Rally GB: 2nd Lady;
11th Gp N; 38th o/a, Bulldog Rally: Mitsubishi
debut
1997 Gp N Honda Civic Vti - British
Championship, Series position: 2nd Ladies Cup; 3rd
Class N3; 4th Junior
1996 Nissan Micra Challenge, Monteberg
Rallysprint: 1st Lady
1995 First competition licence raced a
Peugeot 306 and Ford Fiesta XR2, Former instructor
at the Nigel Mansell Racing School at Oulton
Park
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