The Racetech Steel Victorian Rally Championships has been run and won in the last round held at Wangaratta. The Championship rested on the last round with four drivers separated by 3 points and another 2 hot on their heals. Anyone of five drivers could win, the leading contenders where David Nutter & Matt DeVaus, Justin Dowell & Matt Lee, Peter & Chris Montgomery, Andrew Pannan & Paul Flintoff. The weeks leading up to the event increased attention to detail, not just driver and co driver preparation but of course engines, transmissions, suspensions and of course the all important tyres, and then of course the weather. There had been big rains in the area in the days leading to the event threatening to cancel it. The roads were very sludgy and slippery. David was third seaded but balloted first on the road, not a desired position but possibly advantageous depending on the roads.

The first stage in the forest saw cars sliding off into the trees and Justin Dowell, the equal leading contender was out of the event. The DNFUCrt (David Nutter Ford Used Cars rally team) proceeded to plan with their conservative start to stay on their road, loosing small margins to leading contenders. David lifted his game in Stage 4 and won that stage. Then in Stage 5 - drama - a serious of events was to seal his fate. The stage started of with a big delay and five minutes idling on the starting line had exhaust fumes running into the car so the air vent was left open to clear the fumes with road speed. Then the Coralba trip computer died on the starting line, then without ability to measure distances on the road to mark corners, the team had a corner overshoot with loss of time. Then a hurricanical rain deluge hit and of course rain came in the vent, the demister took some time to clear the mist. A little bit of scenery under the wiper blade didn