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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>March</strong> 2 2<strong>02</strong>3<br />
24<br />
RACING<br />
• By Dave Di Somma<br />
WHAT A WEEK it’s been for<br />
Blair Orange.<br />
On Saturday he reined home<br />
five winners at Ashburton. Now<br />
the country’s top driver has been<br />
confirmed as New Zealand’s<br />
representative at this year’s world<br />
driving championships.<br />
<strong>The</strong> championships, back after<br />
a Covid-enforced hiatus, will be<br />
contested over 20 races at four<br />
different tracks in three different<br />
countries – the Netherlands,<br />
Germany and Belgium – from<br />
August 14-18.<br />
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It will be Orange’s debut at<br />
the championships, with the<br />
five-time Kiwi champion driver<br />
realising a long-held ambition of<br />
wearing the silver fern at a major<br />
international event.<br />
“I was hopeful I’d go and now<br />
I’m lucky enough to be asked and<br />
to represent New Zealand. (It) is<br />
a real honour,” he said.<br />
Orange will try to emulate the<br />
feats of recent world champions<br />
such as Dexter Dunn (2015),<br />
Mark Jones (2003), Maurice<br />
McKendry (1991) and Tony<br />
Herlihy (1985).<br />
Orange has travelled overseas<br />
extensively, but it will be his first<br />
foray to Europe.“It’s always great<br />
going somewhere new and I’ll<br />
stay on a week or so after and<br />
have a look around.”<br />
Domestically there are<br />
few drivers who travel more<br />
than Orange. On Saturday at<br />
Ashburton it seemed he was<br />
having a ho-hum day, a couple of<br />
placings – nothing special. But<br />
then he won the last five races,<br />
all for different trainers. Records<br />
show his haul at Ashburton was<br />
the 12th time he has had five<br />
or more wins at one meeting,<br />
including twice when he had<br />
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six winners. Of the 12, eight<br />
have been at Manawatu, where<br />
he has a remarkable strike rate<br />
with trainer Michael House, and<br />
one each at Oamaru, Rangiora,<br />
Addington and now Ashburton.<br />
Orange has 23 wins this year,<br />
and is second overall, six wins<br />
behind leader John Dunn.<br />
On Saturday, Orange’s success<br />
in the sulky will be recognised<br />
when he is crowned New<br />
Zealand’s champion driver for<br />
the fifth straight year at the<br />
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Addington Raceway.<br />
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