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The News
Thursday May 29 2014
Top drivers in Rally of Canterbury The Lone Star Rally of Canterbury will bring the Brian Green Property Group NZ Rally cham pionship to Christchurch and North Canterbury on May 31 and June 1. With new backing from The Lone Star Cafe´ and Bar group, along with their sidekicks at Joes Garage, the rally promises top level action. New Zealand’s best rally teams will tackle the first two Ashley forest stages in the dark on Saturday night, then race along many of North Canterbury’s best gravel public roads on Sunday, finishing the high speed action with another run over the two forest stages Sunday afternoon.
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The rally starts at The Palms shopping mall in Shirley on Saturday afternoon, May 31 where all cars will be on display from 3.30pm and where people can meet the drivers during a poster signing session from 3.45pm. The rally finishes at The Palms at 4.20pm on Sunday, June 1, providing another chance to get up close to the cars and drivers. North Canterbury people will get extra oppor tunities to see the cars and drivers as they return to park overnight at Rangiora Showgrounds from 8pm on Saturday. They will leave from there at 7.50 am on Sunday. A further point of interest will be watching the cars being serviced in Rangiora in the council car park behind the fire station. Rally cars will come in for service there from 7.15 pm on Saturday and again on Sunday from 1.20pm. Masterton’s Richard Mason leads the NZ Championship (NZRC) after the first two rounds and starts as favourite. However, there are a whole bunch of other teams that hope to beat Mason. Three local teams hoping to do this include Christchurch’s Matt Jansen who finished third at this event last year and also scored third at the recent Otago round of the championship. He will be hoping he can get to the top at his home round. Rangiora’s Matt Summerfield is second in the championship at present, and while his car is not as sophisticated as those of Mason and Jansen, consistent fast times have provided good results so far this year for him. Kaiapoi’s Richard Baddock has impressed everyone with how quickly he has learnt the sport and also went well in the Canterbury rally last year. There will be all sorts of new rally cars to keep an eye on, including Andrew Hawkeswood’s Mazda 2 which is built using a new ‘spaceframe’ formula.
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Matt Summerfield in action. Summerfield, who is second in the New Zealand championship at present, will be pushing for top honours at the Rally of Canterbury to improve his standing. Photo: Euan Cameron. The car proved fast and agile at its recent Otago debut, and Hawkeswood is well known for his spectacular ‘win it or bin it’ style. The top female rally driver, Emma Gilmore, will return with her Suzuki Swift Maxi. She was also quick and consistent at Otago. A couple of young guys in Subarus Ben Hunt and Lance Williams can be expected to be on the pace. Hunt placed in the Canterbury rally last year while Williams has been very impressive running with the top guns of the sport in his first NZRC season this year. David Holder is another new guy doing well, and with training from Kiwi WRC driver Hayden
Paddon, Holder will hope he can get his Mitsubishi first across the finish line at the Palms. There will be over 50 teams taking on the challenge of the 2014 Lone Star Rally of Canterbury and you can be sure there will be action throughout the field. Spectator maps, for the best place to watch the live action are available from: The Palms, Christchurch Lone Stars, Joe’s Garage, Autotech Services, Ivory Street, Repco Rangiora, High Street, BNT Rangiora, Flaxton Road, Doig Auto Electrical, Blackett street, Caltex Rangiora, High Street, Straight n Paint, Newnham Street. It is free to get among the action.
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