Schools Competition Winners Get Their Rewards

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Targa New Zealand
'The Ultimate Road Race'
Targa Rallysprint
Waiuku
Sat March 02
2013

SPECIAL EVENT

13-03-13

Schools Competition Winners Get Their Rewards

Today was a special day for Waiuku Primary School pupils Dylan Baird, Jackson Clements and Arlo Fruh, the trio rewarded for their winning entries in the children's colouring-in competition held in conjunction with the recent Targa Rallysprint.

Dylan, 7, a Year 3 pupil at the school was the overall winner of the competition, and was presented with his prize - a family pass to next month's V8 Supercar series meeting at nearby Pukekohe Park Raceway worth $500 donated by Euroline Autoparts - by Andrew Baker, chairman of the Franklin local board of the Auckland council.

Arlo, 7 and Jackson, 8, were the winners of their respective age-group categories, their prize a ride to school this morning with Nigel Karl in the Kids In Cars Ford Falcon FPV GT-P V8.

Each boy also received a goodie bag with a Targa calendar, Targa hat and Targa T-Shirt.

Targa tarmac motor rally events pass through hundreds of communities all over the North Island each year and Event Director Peter Martin says he is always looking for new and different ways to engage with people - young and old - in them.

This was the first colouring-in competition the organisation has run in conjunction with an event but Martin says that if the response from students and staff at Waiuku Primary School today is anything to go by it won't be the last.

"It was fantastic," he said this afternoon." It seemed like the whole school was waiting for us this morning and when we got there Nigel and the boys were literally mobbed. We'll definitely be doing something like this again!"

The Targa Rallysprint was the first event of the year for Targa competitors. The second is the three-day Targa Rotorua between May 10 and 12, the third the the four-day Targa New Zealand event between October 31 and November 03. For more information go to www.targa.co.nz.

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