New challenges, improved stages and a first for the Australian Rally Championship are set to make the 2010 Quit Forest Rally this April one of the most exciting events on the Australian motorsport calendar.

Quit Forest Rally organisers are predicting a record number of local and national teams will converge on the Busselton and Nannup regions of Western Australia for what is set to be a motorsport extravaganza unlike any other in Australia.

Traditionally a round of the Australian Rally Championship the 2010 Quit Forest Rally will also play host to rounds of the West Australian Rally Championship, the WA Clubman Series, as well as the new inclusion, Quit Forest Rally Moto and the Shannons Busselton Sprint.

Quit Forest Rally Moto will see the inclusion of motorbikes in an event for the first time in the history of the Australian Rally Championship with more details about the event to be released in coming weeks.

Entries for  the rally components of the event open today and following record numbers in 2009 Quit Forest Rally Event Director Ross Tapper is looking forward to welcoming teams back to the region. Entries for the Motor and Shannons Busselton Sprint will be open soon.

“We pride ourselves on improving the quality of the event for both competitors and spectators each year and the 2010 Quit Forest Rally is going to be one of the biggest years yet,” Tapper said.

“We are continuing to run the event through the plantations around Nannup as well as the Busselton Toyota Super Special Stage on the Busselton foreshore providing spectators with the best rally action possible at some of the preeminent spectator points in the ARC.

Entries for the 2010 Quit Forest Rally are now open with forms and information available for download on www.rally.com.au and www.rallywa.com