Rally team’s success
PA Wellington; New Zealand’s Masporti Escort rally team filled two of the top 10 places in the! Castrol International motor! rally which was run in Canberra over the week-end. Ari Vatanen (Finland), driving for New Zealand with his British co-driver, David Richards, took second place, just 40 seconds behind Canberra’s Greg Carr, who has now won the event for six years in succession.
; Jim Donald of Auckland, in the second Masport Es-■ Icort filled eighth place. 1 ' After leading the rally for! most of its 600 km, Vatanen rolled: his Ford Escort only 10 competi-i tive stages from the finish and, lost three minutes. < Carr took a 19s lead In the in-1 cident after being 2min 55s be-| hind, and the two drivers looked] set for a battle to the chequered [ flag, hut Vatanen then suffered . a flat tyre and gave Carr a , dream run home, with Colin Bond in third place, five minutes behind.
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