Today's contest finds the Wacky Racers in Australia waiting to wheel their way to Sydney. And they're off! Taking an early lead is pretty Penelope Pitstop in her Compact Pussycat. Peter Perfect is second and the Slag Brothers third. Coming up is Professor Pat Pending and he converts the Convert-A-Car into a forklift.

He lifts up the Bouldermobile and goes into third place. The Slags yelled unintelligibly. Gravel formed his club into a boomerang and threw it. It missed the Convert-A-Car and headed back to the Slag Brothers. The Slags ducked, Christopher coming up ducked as the boomerang passed by. The Gruesome Twosome ducked as the boomerang hit the belfry sending out a few bats and a ghost.

Up ahead is Double 'O' the bad news twins Dastardly and Muttley with another scheme no doubt.

Dastardly and Muttley were blowing up balloon sheep.

"This one can't fail Muttley. The drivers will sit here all day honking at these rubber sheep."

A ram was passing by. He smiled when seeing fellow sheep to hang around with so he went over to mingle with the crowd

Dastardly noticed the ram "I don't remembering having a balloon ram here. I'll just move it in the middle of the road."

The ram bleated angrily

"Egads! It's a real ram! Help!"

Muttley laughed as Dastardly was chased by the ram. The ram rammed him into the balloon sheep popping them. Dick was soon run over by the other cars. Muttley continued laughing.

According to our radar scope everyone is in a nip in tuck battle for the lead. The Army Surplus Special is now leading with the Slag Brothers second and the Creepy Coupe. And now's it's Vanessa London coming up to challenge the leaders

The Magic Rocket became a light pink Kangaroo

A Kangaroo? I don't believe it

"Well just watch and then you'll believe it."

She bounced over the leaders

Wow! Now I believe it. Vanessa has bounced her into the lead.

"I like riding in the pouch." said Crystal "It's warm and comfy."

Dastardly drove through the Outback to plan his next dirty deed

"All right, get a move on Muttley."

Muttley began digging a hole

"Faster Muttley faster!"

Muttley grumbled calling Dastardly a slave driver. He came out of the hole as Dastardly camouflaged the hole.

"Here they come. Let's go hide." he chuckled "Once they drive and fall into the hole, I'll be the only one to win this Wacky Race."

However everyone passed by safely

Dastardly went over and stomped on the hole "Now how could this go wrong?" He soon fell into the hole as Muttley laughed

As the racers dart across the land a pile of rocks is blocking away.

Vanessa bounced over the pile while the Army Surplus Special charged right through knocking the rocks away making things easier for the other Wacky Racers.

The Ant Hill Mob is moving up but coming up fast is Peter Perfect.

"Okay Ring-A-Ding, give him the old Rat-A-Tat."

"Right Clyde."

The jackhammer broke Peter's Turbo Terrific into pieces

Meanwhile in the Dastardly Deed Department, whatever devious diversion Dastardly is planning, just let him tell it.

"These are remote controlled boomerangs. These devices are going to narrow down the competition."

At this point everyone is well bunched and holding a steady pace.

"All right here they come. Go get them boomerangs!"

The boomerangs went off and zipped past the pack a rapid pace

"I say what was that?" asked Peter

The boomerangs passed them by again

"Hey Serge, what's that in the sky?"

"They look like boomerangs. Actually they are boomerangs."

"Except those boomerangs are mechanical." said Pat Pending "I'll use my Spark Ray."

The electricity short-circuited the boomerangs and they went to Dick Dastardly

"Fall back Muttley! Mad boomerangs!"

They got into the Double Zero and drove off with the boomerangs hot on their tails

Half way to Sydney it's Christopher Scott in front with Motorcycle Power with the rest of the racers in pursuit. Nurse Bridget Swan is sailing into second and the Creepy Coupe is running into third. The rest are bunched up behind the leaders. The Ant Hill Mob uses Pogo Power and the Slag Brothers use Double Club Power to gain on the leaders.

Meanwhile out in the Outback

The Mean Machine was on the run from those boomerangs. The boomerangs soon came up and cut the Double Zero to pieces

"Drat! Double drat! We'll never get back into the race like this!"

Muttley looked through the parts and found some tape

"You're right Muttley we'll just have to patch things up. Desperate times call for desperate measures."

Coming down the home stretch the Wacky Racers give it all they got. Christopher Scott has the lead with the Slag Brothers bashing their way into the second spot and the Ant Hill Mob running into third.

The Mean Machine is now coming up fast. They're passing the pack and are now in second place.

"All we have to do is pass Christopher Scott and first place is ours!" he laughed

Due to the wind speed the tape came off bit by bit. Just as the Double Zero passed Number 11, the Mean Machine broke

And it's tough luck for Dick Dastardly as Christopher Scott crosses the finish line first, the Slag Brothers second and the Ant Hill Mob third.

"Oh drat!" he kicked the parts hurting his foot "Ouch, ouch!"

Muttley just laughed