Two in a row for David Higgins

David and his co-driver Ieuan Thomas have now won both of the opening two rounds of this year's Chinese Rally Championship. Although David cannot score overall points towards the driver's title, he has put they WY team firmly at the top of the team points table.

"We were fastest on every stage except two," said David. "Our Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 was faultless throughout the weekend. We were leading by 30 seconds after the first leg but I knew Jarko Miettinen was going to push us hard to get past on day two and the first stage would be the one he had beaten us on on leg one.

"We pushed hard but made sure we kept the Hankook tyres in good condition for the twisty stages. Then we found out that Jarko had had a big crash. We were 30 seconds faster than the next car so we just took an easy run to the end. We were still fastest on the stages though and won by two minutes and ten seconds."

David would like to thank TQ Education and Training, Tein Suspension and Hankook Tyres.