The third round of the Australian Off Road Championship was held at the Taipo Station12km from Mildura Victoria. The track was a 115km loop ranging from bottomless bulldust to loamy sand, through the notorious mally scrub, to open paddocks.

Saturdays format was prologue first to decide the start order for the afternoons first full lap of the track. The prologue track was a 15km shortened version of the long track containing all the same components. For one of the two Chapman cars prologue would be his first and last drive of the weekend. Robert Chapman and Ross Challacombe in their Pajero only made it 8km into the track when the Pajero lost oil pressure and the motor seized, putting an early end to his weekend of racing. Clayton Chapman and navi Adam McGuire on the other hand had a very successful run taking the class lead by 8 seconds over production class champion Geoff Pickering in his Pajero.  After section 1 Clayton had a comfortable 6 min lead over Geoff Pickering.

Sunday consisted of three laps of the track with a 30min service break between laps. First lap ran smoothly for Clayton still holding the lead now by 9 min. With the sandy straights of the track now being churned up by the leading pro buggies, fuel consumption was increased more than the team had anticipated. Clayton finished the 2nd lap with the Triton running on the very few drops of fuel left. For the third and final lap the crew had to borrow fuel from the retired Offroad Rush team of Chris Western. With a comfortable lead all the boys had to do was bring it home in one piece. At the 80km point of the track the main throttle spring broke, leaving the Tritons throttle stuck 75% open, which made the final leg to the finish a little more interesting.

Once the racing was done and dusted the final result was in, Clayton and Adam placed first in class and finished 13th outright of a field 50 competitors. It is now, back to the shed and a few more late nights to get Roberts Pajero up and running again before the Toogoolawah Qld short course which is to be held in two weeks.