Perth based New Zealander Mike Young has narrowly won the Forest Rally, round 2 of the West Australia Rally Champs.
The Kiwi was in second place for much of the rally (13th September), but when his arch rival and rally-leader John O’Dowd had an overshoot in his Skoda R5 on the penultimate 32 kilometre Wellington Dam stage, the gap between them was down to just 2.4 seconds.
Young saw his chance, putting the hammer down for the last 17-kilometre stage and taking an epic win in the Maximum Motorsport Subaru, by just 0.5sec.
“Awesome just stole it at the end there and really lucky,” commented Young. “We knew we were close to John going into the last stage and had a big push.
“Compared to this morning when I was still learning the car and there was no grip, this afternoon I had a bit more confidence to have a go, plus on the second pass there was more grip.
“A big thanks to Scott (Beckwith) too as he was bang on the (pace) notes all day”, Young said prior to the finish celebrations.
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