
Vale Roger Baker - a tremendous Victorian Rally Servant Most of the Victorian rally community are aware of Roger Bakers contribution to Victorian motorsport over many years with his contributuion via the WICEN radio network and the revolutionary “Pienet” radio network, but Roger was also a rally competitor and rally organiser of note during the 1960s and 1970s. Here are a couple of highlights of earlier Rogers rally career I was aware of and have unearthed some more details since I heard of Rogers passing last week. Roger Baker, centre, somewhere late at night on the 1965 BP Rally, with Jim McAuliffe to his right. 1965 BP Rally of South Eastern Australia Roger competed as a navigator in the 1965 BP Rally, a BP rally that was both famous and infamous in media reports of the time and in Australian rally forklore. A snip from a Pathe film shows Ian McKnight & Roger Baker with their Triumph 2000 at the finish at Chadstone Shopping Centre A glance at the official results ...