{"id":19674,"date":"2013-05-08T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-uitenhage-ocean-basket-rally\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:01:51","slug":"the-uitenhage-ocean-basket-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-uitenhage-ocean-basket-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uitenhage Ocean Basket Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Longmore Forests will come alive with motor sport rally action on the 11 May 2013 when National and local rally cars will take advantage of this event by competing in the 2nd round of the 50k Algoa Rally Championship, particularly the Longmore Forest stages , starting at the Ocean Basket in Uitenhage at 9:00 am with scrutineering and documentation. The first gravel stage will be run at Jagtvlakte for the benefit of the Uitenhage supporters, entering from the old power station road, then will proceed to the next few stages in the Longmore Forests from the Hanky turn off.<\/p>\n

National competitors and reigning SA Rally Champions Mark Cronje and Robin Houghton driving a Ford S200, are expected to lead the field of 30 Vehicles that will use this event as a pre-National test session. This will also include Volkswagen Sasol Racing team of Enzo Kuun, Hergen Fekken, Henk Lategan and Team Castrol Toyota Johnny Gemmel and Leeroy Poulter and navigators. Local National competitors Morne Janse Van Rensburg and navigator Rikus Fourie will use this event as home town advantage, as well as Bryan and Andrew Heine, Rikus Smit, Ross Bartle and Neels Vosloo driving Nissan\u2019s, Toyota\u2019s and VW Polo\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The R 50 000.00 prize on offer for the local rally championship will be hotly contested between the classes of<\/strong>:<\/p>\n