Harry Bates (born 8 March 1995,

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, Australia) is a professional

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driver. He drives for the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia team. He is a four-time

Australian Rally Championship The Motorsport Australia Rally Championship, also commonly known as the Australian Rally Championship (ARC), is Australia's premier gravel rally competition. A multi-event national championship has been held each year since 1968, excepting 202 ...

series winner, in 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2024. His father

Neal Bates Neal Anthony Bates (born 19 March 1965) is an Australian rally and racing car driver. Throughout his career Bates has been associated with Toyota in the Australian Rally Championship and for 19 years his Neal Bates Motorsport outfit ran Toyota's ...

was also an ARC-winning driver in the 1990s and 2000s, and his brother Lewis won the title in 2022. All three work for the family-run rally team; Harry Bates has a role in commercial operations when not driving. For most of his rally career, his co-driver was John McCarthy. In 2023 and 2024, his co-driver was

Coral Taylor Coral Pamela Taylor (born 1961) is an Australian rally co-driver. Taylor comes from a strong rallying family, she is the daughter of veteran rally driver Norm Fritter, married to former Australian Championship driver Mark Taylor and mother to em ...

, who also co-drove for Neal for their Australian Rally Championship wins.

Motorsports career results

Rally

Asia-Pacific Rally Championship results

World Rally Championship results

World Rally Championship-2 results

FIA WRC2 Junior Championship results

Circuit racing

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