BE excited, readers! It's only about 49 sleeps to the start of this year's Shitbox Rally, the highlight of the global motorsport calendar where more than 200 cars costing no more that $1000 will try to travel the 3600km from Canberra to Townsville via the Birdsville Track and the Simpson Desert.
Organiser James Freeman says: "This year's route will be a tour de force of some of Australia's most iconic pubs and landscapes over seven days."
Once again your intrepid team here at The Weekend Australian Motoring will be behind what's left of the wheel of our Ford BA ute. Our motto: "Who cares about landscapes, we care about iconic pubs, in fact any pubs." This year your on-the-spot reporters will be trying to beat our 2014 position of last.