Cannonball Run Memorial - NT

  Historic Site

Position

DEG: -24.373501 133.4198
DMS: 24º 22' 24.6" S 133º 25' 11.28" E
UTM: 53 J 7303508mN 339730mE
Altitude: 469m

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Stuart Highway
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Monument commemorates the two officials and two Japanese drivers who were killed during the Cannonball Run.

The Northern Territory Cannonball Run was held from 22 May to the 27 May in 1994 on the Stuart Highway from Darwin to Alice Springs and return. A total distance of approximatley 3200 kilometres and it attracted 118 racing enthusiasts from all over the world with their expensive machines. The race contained three distinct driving phases within the one event. These were the "flying miles", the timed sectors and, covering by far the greatest distance, normal, everyday driving during which there was no competitive element.

The "flying miles" were a test of a car's acceleration with cars cross the starting line at 60 kilometres per hour and 1600 metres later their speed was recorded by radar, with points awarded accordingly. The timed sections of the run were approximately 100 kilometre stretches to which set times was applied.

On 24 May, during one of the timed sections near Alice Springs, a Ferrari F40 crashed into a checkpost killing its occupants, the Japanese duo Akihiro Kabe and co-driver Okano (first name unknown) and two track officials, Tim Linklater and Keith Pritchard. An inquest found that the direct cause of the accident was driver error on the part of the Japanese team which entered the checkpoint at an excessive speed.
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Alice Springs Airport at 22/06:00am CST
Distance from Cannonball Run Memorial 79.98km NE
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Alice Springs Airport
Distance from Cannonball Run Memorial 79.98km NE
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Mean Max. °C36.435.132.628.223.019.819.722.627.230.933.635.4
Mean Min. °C21.520.717.512.68.25.04.06.010.314.817.920.2
Mean Rain mm38.643.832.316.318.913.615.09.28.521.429.136.9

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