Autosport’s Josh Marston and four other club members have blasted Autosport to a 7-point lead over the Ashburton Car Club after taking five of the top seven places in the exciting Rakaia Zig Zag gravel hillclimb on April 23rd.
The hard packed gravel road of around 2km was shorter than previously run event Zig Zag’s so Marston’s 1m 26.3sec time becomes the record for this new course, in a rally car. Sean Haggarty was second and David Quantock took the third step on the podium.
There were also six Crosscar’s competing and the fastest in this category was Ben Hoskin-McLaren with a time of 1m 25.2.
Autosport banked 86-points with Ashburton on 53, Ratec on 45 and Canterbury 26. Full results are on the Autosport website: Zig zag 2023 results.xlsx (autosport.org.nz)
Points after 2 of 8 Rounds:
1/ Autosport Club 125
2/ Ashburton Car Club 118
3/ Canterbury Car Club 86
4/ Ratec Motorsport Club 81
The next rounds are:
Round 3: June 11th – Ashburton CC – The Levels Dual Car Sprint
Round 4: June 25th – Canterbury CC – Ruapuna Seal Autocross
Round 5: August 6th – Canterbury CC – Ruapuna Dual Car Sprint – TBC
Round 6: September ?th – Autosport Club – Grass Autocross – Venue tba
Round 7: October 15th or 16th – Ratec M/Sprt – Banks Peninsula Hillclimb
Round 8: November 11th – Ashburton CC – Scotty’s Gravel Sprint
There are usually 4 tarmac events and 4 loose surface events.
The winners are decided by the top 5 place-getters for each club earning points from 20 down to 1.
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