North Canterbury News: September 26, 2019
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SPORT<br />
40 The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>September</strong> <strong>26</strong>, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Paddon feels the heat of local competition<br />
ASHLEY RALLYSPRINT<br />
By LINDSAY KERR<br />
The 40thanniversary of the Ashley<br />
Forest RallySprintmade headlines<br />
for World Rally driver Hayden<br />
Paddon’srecordbreaking effort, but<br />
many observers believe the drive of<br />
the weekend belonged to local driver<br />
Matt Summerfield.<br />
Summerfield earnedthe rightto<br />
face off with Paddon in the finalrun<br />
afterposting atime in the semifinal —<br />
one that might ordinarily have given<br />
him the favourite tag.<br />
Driving his 13yearold Subaru<br />
WRX, Summerfield showed his talent<br />
by eclipsing themuchsought oneminute<br />
barrier on four occasions, with<br />
abest timeof56.65 seconds.<br />
Summerfield was first to run in the<br />
finalover the 1.7 kilometre course,<br />
recordingatime of 56.9sec for Paddon<br />
to chase.<br />
One small mistakewas all that was<br />
necessaryfor Summerfield to have<br />
won the eventfor afourthtime.<br />
Paddon, though, was on top of his<br />
game, scorching aroundthe course to<br />
post anew record timeof52.97sec.<br />
Rangiora’s Sean Haggerty, also in a<br />
Subaru WRX, recorded acreditable<br />
fifthplace andwas also delighted to<br />
post asub oneminute 59.86sec. Dave<br />
Ollis, of Woodend,made it into the<br />
final16but bowed out from atopeight<br />
spot.<br />
His best time over the weekend was<br />
64.83sec.<br />
Just missing out on the final 16 was<br />
James Palmer in an older Subaru<br />
Legacy, whose time of 65.18sec left<br />
him 17th.<br />
Sam Hurley in aMitsubishi Evo 3<br />
In form ... Matt Summerfield attacks the dipper on his way down the hill during the Ashley Forest Rally Sprint.<br />
ended in 20th place at 65.37sec, while<br />
Ari Pettigrew in his unlikely BMW 318<br />
rally car produced avery creditable<br />
66.69sec thatleft him 24th. Job<br />
Quantrock,inaMazda RX7, was 29th<br />
at 67.39sec.<br />
Chris Herdman in aToyota Starlet<br />
won thecompetitive 0to1300ccclass,<br />
PHOTO: HJPETTIGREW<br />
recording atime of 71.40sec in the<br />
runoff. Peter Murch was third in his<br />
Suzukipowered ToyotaStarlet, with<br />
74.02sec.<br />
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