Championship beckons
Round six of the seven-rounds South African National Rally Championship is the Toyota Cape Dealer Rally, which takes place on 16 and 17 September in the Swartland - and victory for Leeroy Poulter and navigator Elvéne Coetzee on Toyota’s home event, will see them clinch the 2016 championship title.
The pair have won each round of this year’s championship, in their Toyota Gazoo Racing SA, in association with Total Quartz, Yaris S2000.
“It’s been an amazing season so far,” says Poulter. “We’ve had a great run, and the Toyota Yaris has been absolutely faultless. We had a tough event in the Cape last year, and we’ll be looking to make it good this time.”
Teammates Giniel de Villiers and navigator Carolyn Swan are the only other crew with a mathematical chance of stealing Poulter/Coetzee’s thunder. If De Villiers/Swan win the Toyota Cape Dealer Rally, the title fight continues to round seven.
The rally gets under way with scrutineering at 18:00 on Thursday, 15 September, at Imperial Toyota Cape Gate. Friday sees a ceremonial start at McCarthy Toyota Table View, before the crews tackle four stages at the Killarney racetrack. The event concludes on Saturday, with a restart at Malmesbury Toyota, and stages around the Swartland town of Malmesbury.
