2012 South African Rally Championships

[Grant_RSA]

From press releases it sounds like all 8 rounds.

[gerardwrm]

spoke Hans Jr last Saturday in Dutch TankS rally

he is really looking forward to his first rally overthere !!

[Bruce D]

Was interested to note in Leon Botha's rally preview Rally Star - For all the latest motorsport news as well as motorsport events - TO SAY OR NOT TO SAY.... that he said that Hans Jr was getting most of the testing with the new car. My father was watching them testing yesterday and said he noticed the same thing. So sounds like preferential treatment already. No wonder Habig left.

[Mirek]

Any quotes from Hans Weijs how does he feel driving RHD?

[Bruce D]

Nothing yet, but is it RHD, because they built a LHD version for Giniel de Villiers last year.

[Bruce D]

Beautiful clear blue sky day today. The qualifying stage has just started now and the main event will get going at 11am local time this morning.

[MartijnS]

Nice 2nd time of Weijs at the 3rd stage.
What happened with the first stage after the Qualifying stage? Were some times, but it got deleted from the results?

[Bruce D]

Sorry could only get on now. Leeroy Poulter in the works Toyota rolled and his car caught fire and set the sugar cane alight. This blocked the route for everyone from 9th on the road onwards so that was why the stage was cancelled. I saw a picture of what was left of the car just now and it's totally burnt out. Luckily the crew are ok. Rumour has it that Cronje also rolled on that stage but continued. At the moment after SS3 Kuun leads by 2.9s from Wilken with JP Damseaux co-driven by our own Grant_SA is 3rd overall, 11.1sec down. Weijs Jnr is currently 7th overall 17.4sec behind Kuun.

[MartijnS]

Thanks for the info!

[Bruce D]

Well according to RallyStar, they spun off the road and stalled., not rolled. While restarting the car it backfired and ignited the sugarcane. Apparently they'll take a long time to build a new car and they will sit out the next event.