Dean Herridge (born 23 August 1976) is an Australian

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driver. He finished eighth on the

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, scoring one

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point.

Career

Herridge began rallying in 1994. He contested his first

event the following year on

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in a Hyundai Lantra, retiring from the rally. In 1996 he contested three rounds of the

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for

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, finishing 15th overall on

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, a WRC round. He then drove for

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in 1997 and 1998, winning the Australian 2 litre championship in both years. Driving a Subaru, Herridge won the Privateer Cup in the Australian Rally Championship in 2000 and 2001. This earned him a factory driver with Subaru Rally Team Australia in 2002. He remained with the team until the end of 2005. He won the

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category on

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in 2004, and was Australian championship runner-up in 2005. As a privateer he finished third overall in the 2006 and 2007 Australian championships, winning the Privateer title in both years. On

he finished eighth overall and third in the PWRC category. In 2008 he contested the Chinese Rally Championship for Subaru China, also claiming the FIA Pacific Cup title. In 2011 he won the Australian Targa Championship in a Subaru.

References

External links

Official website
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