, on display in the
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, in 2013 The success of the
1968 London-Sydney Marathon would inspire Australian advertising publicist Wylton Dickson, who had no previous links to rallying to organised the
World Cup Rally, which took place in
1970 and again in
1974. But following the controversy over the running of the 1974 event, the
World Cup Rally was cancelled and Dickson decided to organise another London to Sydney Marathon in 1977, with sponsorship from
Singapore Airlines, who were celebrating their 30th Anniversary, by running the longest car rally in history. The route would see competitors cross Europe and Asia in the first twelve days of the event before the cars would be shipped from
India to
Malaysia with competitors driving through the country and into
Singapore for the next eleven days before being shipped to Australia for the last seven days of the rally. ==Results==