Eli Evans
Birth date: 12 November, 1983
Age: 25
Country: Melbourne, Australia
Co-driver: Chris Murphy
Car: Subaru Impreza WRX
Team: Evans Motorsport

Bio: Eli’s Australian Rally Championship debut came at the 2003 NGK Rally Melbourne. In 2004, after taking on rallying full time, Eli came away as the Victorian Club Rally Champion.

Eli spent two years (2004 & 2005) developing his skills in the Subaru Rally Challenge in an RS Impreza and finsihed the 2005 series with four round wins, and as the Subaru Rally Challenge Champion. Eli's speed was impressive enough for him to be selected as a teammate to Cody Crocker in the Les Walkden Rallying team for the Asia-Pacific Regional Rally Championship in 2006.

Chris Murphy joined him as co-driver for the 2006 APRC and together they had two top 10 event finishes, and placed an impressive 6th overall for the championship.

In 2007 Eli returned to Australian rallying, competing in a number of tarmac rallies and staging his first outright attempt at the ARC in a privateer Group N car.

Eli showed throughout the year he had the speed to match it with the front runners in the ARC. He was one of the few drivers to take a stage win off Simon Evans and even lead the coates Rally Queensland, Great Lakes Rally before being overtaken by Simon (who remained undefeated for the entire 2007 season).