A rally crew crawled out uninjured after eight mid-air rollovers on the second day of the Canberra rally.

Hendriks, 34, was competing in only his second dirt rally when he and co-driver Oswald Seldon ran wide on a fast section about one kilometre from the Hyles start line, catapulted off the road and rolled eight times, shedding various pieces of bodywork before the car came to rest upside down between two trees.

Hendriks has enjoyed some success on tarmac events before and had purchased the car from fellow Jindabyne local Andrew Penny. Both drivers were running under the Kosciuszko Automotive Rally Team banner over the weekend.

Uninjured, the competitors crawled out of the upturned car and were forced to become spectators for the rest of the rally while marshals kept a close watch with fire extinguishers handy.

"I don't think Andrew [Penny] is going to be too pleased when he sees this," Hendriks said as he surveyed the damaged car.

"We were really pushing and the car just drifted wide, then snapped back and we fired off the road.

"We're both feeling okay but it's a shame because the car was going well."

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Canberra's reigning national rally champion, Harry Bates, teamed up with John McCarthy in the brand new Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Yaris, appeared to have a stranglehold on the rally as the event neared its conclusion on Sunday.

Not far behind was his younger brother Lewis Bates, also competing in a new Yaris.

Harry Bates won six stages on day one, while his brother took out two stage wins late in the day.

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