THE hometown challenge for the Volkswagen Sasolracing team takes place in the Eastern Cape on Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18. Round five of the 2015 National Rally Championship season is the Volkswagen Rally and this year it is the start of the second half of the eight-round calendar.
“The Volkswagen Rally is an event we look forward to every year,” says Mike Rowe, head of Volkswagen Motorsport. “The opportunity to rally in your own back yard is always welcome, to provide the thrill and excitement of national rally competition to your biggest fans and most loyal supporters. Every year the Volkswagen Rally proves to be a particularly demanding round of the national calendar and we are expecting nothing less this year.”
Eastern Cape rally fans will be able to see the Volkswagen Sasolracing team tackle the 12 stages of 2015 event, starting from Auto Pavilion at Volkswagen SA on Friday.
Gugu Zulu and Hilton Auffray will be looking to the Volkswagen Rally to continue their performance. Zulu has produced three consecutive top-five finishes, two of which were podium results. Auffray has been at Zulu’s side for two of these three events and the pair is intent on building up an impressive season result together.
They are certainly on track to achieve this, with Zulu in third place overall in the championship as he heads to round five of the national championship, the Volkswagen Rally.
Henk Lategan and Barry White enter the VW Rally looking to consolidate their fifth place position in the national championship – with an eye on a podium result in front of the team’s hometown fans. Lategan and White have shown the pace required to finish at the head of the field and will be aiming for exactly that result at the Volkswagen Rally.
Previous Volkswagen Rally winners Hergen Fekken and Pierre Arries would like nothing better than to claim the top step on the podium of their home event again. The Volkswagen Rally is their third outing together this season and it is simply a matter of time before they return to their accustomed place in the national championship.
The Volkswagen Rally starts at Auto Pavilion on Friday. There is an exciting stage at Aldo Scribante Raceway to end day one and a double-treat at Port Elizabeth Oval Track Raceway on Saturday afternoon with two consecutive super special stages for a big finish to the event.
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