Stadium Cars Motorsport Expands Line Up For 2013

Stadium Cars Motorsport Expands Line Up For 2013

Christchurch-based Stadium Cars Motorsport have expanded their level of support to three cars for the 2013 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship prior to the opening round at Otago this weekend.

Driving the team’s Ford Escort RS1800 in the BNT Historic challenge, Tony Gosling is embarking on his first full campaign in the NZRC and returns to the event that he made his rallying debut on in 2006. As part of the historic field, Gosling will also contest the highly regarded Otago Classic Rally, which is co-sponsored by Stadium Cars and Nichibo.

Gosling, who will be co-driven by Darryn Green for the season, has realistic goals for the season opener in what will be only his second full rally in the car.

“I’d really like to be on the podium for the NZRC and inside the top ten for the overall classic rally,” he states.

Also lining up to represent Stadium Cars Motorsport will be Tauranga’s David Holder. The reigning open-class two-wheel drive and rookie NZRC champion will again take the wheel of the team’s Ford Fiesta ST, having driven it for the first time at the final round of the season last year in Gisborne.

Holder faces strong opposition in his class, where he will come up against two of the later and more modified evolution of his car, known as the ‘R2’, but is looking to keep pace with the technically superior cars on the fast roads of Otago.

The third car in the team, which is expected to challenge for outright victory, is the Stadium Cars Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 driven by 2011 Production World Rally Champion Hayden Paddon.

Rally Otago gets underway with a ceremonial start on Friday night in Dunedin, with the rally proper getting underway on Saturday with eight stages as far north as Oamaru. Day two sees a further eight special stages before a ceremonial finish at the Dunedin Railway station just before 4.30pm.

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