The final Chinese challenge
After a three month break it’s back to China for David Higgins and Ieuan Thomas as they prepare for the final round of the Chinese Rally Championship, the Longyou Rally.
The rally takes place on November 9th-11th, and is also the final round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the Asian Pacific Rally championship.
So far this year David and Ieuan have dominated the Chinese championship. They have won all four rounds in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 putting the WY Rally Team firmly at the top of the points table going into the championship finale.
“That’s a good thing and a bad thing going into this rally,” says David. “It’s great to be in such a dominant position, but it means we’ll have to hold back to ensure we keep things that way. Because the event is IRC and Asian Pacific too there will be a big international field there who it would be great to fight with, but the team boss is begging us not to go flat out to win every stage like we have done on previous events. We’ve worked all year to get to this position, so it would be stupid of us to get drawn into a fight now and lose WY their title.”
The only other team who have a chance of winning the title are the KST team, which is headed by David’s fellow Manxman Martin Rowe.
“If something happens to the KST team, then we can go flat out,” says David. “Aside from that we only need to finish inside the top ten for Chinese points. Holding back from trying to win every stage will be my hardest challenge of the weekend. I like to win.”
Last year David and Ieuan led the gravel event until their car suffered turbo problems. While WY can pick up the team win, David cannot become Chinese rally champion because he is not from China.
The rally takes place on November 9th-11th, and is also the final round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the Asian Pacific Rally championship.
So far this year David and Ieuan have dominated the Chinese championship. They have won all four rounds in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 putting the WY Rally Team firmly at the top of the points table going into the championship finale.
“That’s a good thing and a bad thing going into this rally,” says David. “It’s great to be in such a dominant position, but it means we’ll have to hold back to ensure we keep things that way. Because the event is IRC and Asian Pacific too there will be a big international field there who it would be great to fight with, but the team boss is begging us not to go flat out to win every stage like we have done on previous events. We’ve worked all year to get to this position, so it would be stupid of us to get drawn into a fight now and lose WY their title.”
The only other team who have a chance of winning the title are the KST team, which is headed by David’s fellow Manxman Martin Rowe.
“If something happens to the KST team, then we can go flat out,” says David. “Aside from that we only need to finish inside the top ten for Chinese points. Holding back from trying to win every stage will be my hardest challenge of the weekend. I like to win.”
Last year David and Ieuan led the gravel event until their car suffered turbo problems. While WY can pick up the team win, David cannot become Chinese rally champion because he is not from China.
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