I’ve been procrastinating about a new gearbox and now I have no choice, so there will be a new gearbox for the next event!”
We arrived at the finish line making awful noises, but we made it, in one piece, and in first place. “It didn’t seem to hinder us too badly but it felt like it was, and then on the last stage, we blew third gear in the gearbox. That in itself was fantastic, because on the second last run we had a very bad engine miss. “Very scary, because you literally didn’t know what was around the next corner, but the car got through. “It was definitely an event with the most challenging road conditions I have ever seen,” Kaplan said. The route was made up of 16 closed road special stages, run from Marysville to Cumberland Junction (on the Warburton/Woods Point Road) as well as up and down the access road between Marysville and the summit of Lake Mountain. The event in Victoria’s Yarra Ranges National Park was run in mixed conditions over the weekend (May 28-29), with rain, fog, sleet and some snow forcing the downgrading of several stages on Saturday, before conditions became much drier for Sunday. Adelaide’s Tim Pryzibilla and Dainis Silins (1983 Porsche 911 Carrera RS) were third. They finished ahead of Mark Hammond from the NSW Central West and Lisa Dunkerton in their 1980 Jaguar XJS. In the classic division, victory (and eighth outright) went to Melbourne’s Rob Devenish and Nick Du Plessis and their 1970 Datsun 240Z. They came home ahead of Canberra’s Max Williams and Bruce Bush in an Audi TT RS while Hobart’s Tim O’Connor and Steve Glenney (2006 Subaru WRX STi) finished third in the battle for outright honours. (JPK Event Photography)Kaplan and co-driver Mary Hughes brought their 1985 Mazda RX 7 home in first place in the Lake Mountain Sprint, despite their gearbox almost giving up the ghost on the final stage. Sydney businessman Adam Kaplan has taken outright victory in the second round of the 2016 Australian Tarmac Rally Championship, doing battle with rain, fog, sleet and snow on the way to the achievement.Īdam Kaplan on his way to winning the Lake Mountain Sprint.
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