Australian Rally Hall of Fame inducts new members - RallySport Magazine
The third Australian Rallying Hall of Fame dinner was held in Canberra on May 14. John Bryson, Greg Carr, Dave Johnson, Peter Macneall, Ross Runnalls, Ross Tapper, Coral Taylor and Jeff Whitten were the eight worthy recipients of the Hall of Fame... John Bryson has been associated with many great names in rallying, including Andrew Cowan, Roger Clark, Evan Green, Ken Tubman, Barry Ferguson and Doug Stewart, to name a few. John’s record of three outright wins in the Southern Cross Rally, competitor in the 1968 and 1977 London-Sydney Marathons, the London – Brighton Veteran Car Run, the Mallee Desert Rally, the Papua-New Guinea Safari, the 1979 Repco Round Australia... He became interested in car rallies and trials and took leave from his civil engineering career to work as a motoring journalist for the Sydney Sun newspaper, and later the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Modern Motor magazine. Bryson first came to prominence in 1972 when he was invited by the Mitsubishi rally team to navigate for Scotsman Andrew Cowan in the Southern Cross Rally. Cowan and Bryson recorded Mitsubishi’s first win in the Australian classic, leading a top field home in their Colt Galant. They repeated their victory in the 1973 ‘Cross, driving a Lancer with full factory support from Japan, beating strong teams from Nissan and Holden. Source: www.rallysportmag.com.au
