Sixteen-year-old Rangiora student Matt Summerfield is taking the good oil with the bad as he prepares to contend the 2009 New Zealand Rally Championship in the five-round competition’s first diesel-powered entry.
The Rally of Hawke’s Bay on April 4-5 will be the first rally run for the Class 2 turbo-diesel Skoda Fabia vRS built by Auckland rally enthusiast Allan Geddes and motor dealership Giltrap Prestige.
Summerfield has, however, already tested its torque in the two-wheel-drive class of last weekend’s Rakaia Zig Zag Sprint in which he proved that entering an oil burner was not a case of smoke and mirrors.
He finished second….. Details
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