Large field assembled for Gold Rush Rally - Drivesouth
Today's penultimate round of the New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC), the Gold Rush Rally Coromandel, will play host to the biggest field assembled in more than 10 years. The Whitianga-based event will see 36 championship cars crossing the start ramp this morning. The nine stages will run to a near identical format to last year and championship leaders Ben Hunt and Tony Rawstorn will be keeping an eye out for the roadside rock that cost them a chance of victory in 2014. After their Subaru Impreza punctured... Chasing him will be 2014 winners Phil Campbell and his partner Venita Fabbro in their Mitsubishi Evo 9. Further competition within the top five will come from Te Aroha's Lance Williams and Raymond Bennet (Subaru WRX R4) and the fourth-seeded... The classic Mazda RX-7 of Marcus van Klink and Dave Neill rounds out the top five. They will start in front of Andrew Hawkeswood and Jeff Cress in a Mazda2. She's looking forward to participating in the Whitianga-based event for the first time, backing up from her fifth place at June's Rally of Gisborne. Coromandel looks like they will be similar roads, so we can check to see if progress is being made,'' Gilmour said. Source: www.drivesouth.co.nz
