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EVENTS
DHRT TAKES ON THE
FIX-A-SMASH ALL TAR RALLY
WCRRC: ALL TAR RALLY
14 - 15 August 2010
Story: Divan de Goede
Pictures: Frank Pey and Eric Josephs
With a successful 2010 FIFA Football
World Cup now in the history books, it
is once again time to fi re up the rally
cars for some action. The fi fth round of
the 2010 Western Cape Regional Rally
Championship will be the CCMCC Fix-a-
Smash All Tar Rally.
With most of the competitors
last seeing action at the React Rally
in early May, the rally crews will be
relishing the opportunity to drive their
cars in anger once more.
The long break gave all the
crews enough time to repair their cars’
battle wounds and prepare the vehicles
for the remaining three rallies on the
calendar.
This break also gave DHRT the
opportunity to correct some issues on
the car, such as fragile engine mounts
and suspension top hats. The Corolla’s
standard fi ve-speed gearbox was also
rebuilt, only requiring minor attention. It
is actually quite astounding the amount
of punishment this gearbox can take,
doing what it clearly wasn’t intended
for. Other than this, our ultra-reliable
Toyota Corolla N2 only required a normal
service and lowering of the ride height to
prepare for the upcoming rally.
The rally will once again be
based at the Killarney Motorsport
Complex, spreading over the Saturday
and Sunday.
The rally will start at 14h00,
with the Saturday’s fi nal stages being
run during the night. DHRT understands
that the night stage will be a very
technical stage that should add to the
challenge of this rally.
Another feature of the All
Tar Rally is that it is not only open to
the rally crews, but also allows teams
from other categories such as the GTi
Challenge, Clubmans and even Motards
to compete on the stages. This should
add to the drama, and hopefully boost
rally’s image at the same time.
DHRT is once again entered into
the very competitive Class S3, which will
also see the return of Richard Behm in
the Mike Nathan Class A6 Toyota Corolla.
The team will also be relaying
their stage times and speeds real-time
using the SportsTracker program. We
will be testing it at the All Tar Rally and
the data will, if successful, be relayed to
our Facebook Page (DH Rally Team) and
Twitter (divanrally). If successful, the
team will be using this program on all
future rallies.
DHRT would like to thank the
following companies for their support:
Saldanha Truck and Marine Centre, 4
Wheel Alignment, JD Motorsport and
Speedy Vredenburg.