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Swartland Rally 2008 : Final Results

Well, here we are at the final results at last :

1. Damseaux/Vrey - Team Total - Toyota RunX 2.0 (S2000)-1:45:42 (Total time)
2. Habig/Judd - BP Volkswagen Racing - VW Polo 2.0 (S2000)- 1:46:31 (Total time)
3. Kuun/Hodgson - BP Volkswagen Racing - VW Polo 2.0 (S2000) - 1:46:38 (Total time)
4. Gemmel/Marsh - Toyota Castrol Team - Toyota RunX RSi (S2000) - 1:47:41 (Total time)
5. Williams/Williams - Doug Williams - VW Polo 2.0 (S2000) - 1:48:58
6. Wilken/Godrich - Charl Wilken - Subaru STI 2.0 (N4) - 1:50:14
7. Fekken/Arries - BP Volkswagen racing - VW Polo 2.0 (S2000) - 1:50:16
8. Rueda/Lewkowicz - Team Total - Mitsubishi Lance Evo 9 (N4) - 1:52:46
9. Du Plessis/Snyman - Gerhard Snyman - Subaru N14 (N4) - 1:54:00
10. Moosa/Martin - Team Total - Toyota Auris 160i (A6) - 2:03:35  read more »

2008 Swartland Results Day 1

Here are the provisional results for day 1 (please note, these results are not final):

1,63,Fernando Rueda/David Lewkowicz,N4,Team Total,Mitsubishi Lancer ev0 9
2,62,Charl Wilken/Greg Godrich,N4,,Subaru STI
3,4,Enzo Kuun/Guy Hodgson,S2000,BP Volkswagen Racing,Polo
4,3,Johnny Gemmell/Peter Marsh,S2000,Toyota Castrol Team,Toyota RunX Rsi
5,1,Jan Habig/Douglas Judd,S2000,BP Volkswagen Racing,Polo
6,7,Jon Williams/Doug Williams,S2000,,Polo
7,2,Hergen Fekken/Pierre Arries,S2000,BP Volkswagen Racing,Polo
8,5,Jean-Pierre Damseaux/Cobus Vrey,S2000,Team Total,Toyota RunX 2.0
9,12,Nicholas Ryan/Andre Vermeulen,S2000, ,Toyota RunX
10,60,Visser Du Plessis/Gerhard Snyman,N4,,
11,64,Paul Pfeiffer/Cindi Harding,N4,,Subaru
12,90,Rodney Visagie/Carolyn Swan,N3,Team Total,Toyota RunX  read more »

Swartland Rally Day 2

It's been an absolutely hectic day. Apologies for the lack of blogging, there is absolutely no internet connection on the farmlands we were on.

We've been racing from viewpoint to viewpoint catching the action. We are currently at the start. The cars are racing past. At incredible speeds. I'm off to try and organize some results.

I'm few moments away from receiving the final results. It's really been an exciting two days and I'm looking forward to seeing the results. I've chatted with a few drivers and the general sentiment is that its been a really good round. We've seen some pretty impressive driving from a lot of drivers. Check out my live tweets on twitter for more info.  read more »

Swartland: Stages and watching the rally

Here's a quick breakdown of what's happening tomorrow :

Stage 5: 09h00 (first rally car comes past)

From Killarney :
Get on N7
Turn left on R45 Hopefield/ Vredenburg/ Saldanha
Turn left at road left on to gravel
Turn left at road to left s/p Goedehoop
GPS co-ords: S33 21.892 E18 35.558

Stage 7: 12h38
Keep straight past road to left
Keep straight offset crossroad, join tar road and back to gravel
Turn left at T-junction
Turn right in unmarked road
Fork left
Park and walk
GPS co-ords: S33 18.035 E18 32.323

Stage 8: Same place as stage 5, 13h45

Stage 9: At Killarney 15h45  read more »