Perfect weather greeted competitors for the 2024 edition of the ARB Big Desert 480 which was held at Rainbow on the weekend.

The event started on Friday evening with a street party in Federal Street with over fifty vehicle on display as they were scrutineered to ensure they were fit to race and then lined up for the public to view while enjoying the entertainment and various catering options.
View the colour and excitement of the race in our photo gallery.
Saturday’s program included the Prologue, which allowed each entrant to set a time in a lap around the short course. This time was then used to set the starting order for Section One of the main race in the afternoon, which involved two laps of the long course.

To complete the event, four laps were run on Sunday, with a 45-minute maintenance break between laps two and three.

The overall winner was Beau Robinson, with co-driver/navigator Shane Hutt (pictured), who completed their six laps in 4:20:02.7, with Clayton Chapman and Adam McGuire just 49 seconds behind them with a time of 4:20:51.4.
2024 ARB Big Desert 480 Outright Results

1st Outright - Beau Robinson / Shane Hutt - Car number 1113
2nd Outright - Clayton Chapman / Adam McGuire - 15
3rd Outright - Andy Brown / Danny Hardman - 1142
To highlight the gruelling nature fo this race, only eight competitors finished the 480 kilometres in under five hours, and the next nineteen to complete the race took up to seven and a half hours.

There were twenty-four entrants who started the race by did not finish.