Round two of the Algoa Rally Club Championship takes place on Monday at Aldo Scribante Raceway at the Syrabix APS Motul Rally and has been billed as yet another spectator friendly event with a mix of dirt and tar sections and some high speed jumps.

The starting line-up of twenty four entries includes some new-comers who will be pitting their skills against many of the seasoned campaigners. East London brothers Justin and Dane Langheine who did sweeping and recovery duties at the first round of the championship will be making their debut in a Toyota Corolla KE70 powered by a 2 litre Toyota Beams motor and should be a force to be reckoned with. Another new pairing is the team of Belinda Ball the wife of well-known racing driver Dean Ball with Tarryn van Rooyen doing navigating duties for her and making a welcome return to rallying, Gordon Nolan with debutant navigator Timothy Ball.

The winners of the opening round of the championship, Gauteng based brothers Nico and Juandre Nienaber return for round two and will no doubt be pushing their Toyota Etios 1600 to the limit once again after a spectacular performance in round one. Nick Davidson and Ashley Bezuidenhout will be hoping that their 4-wheel drive Toyota Auris S2000’s reliability issues are now a thing of the past and will be mixing it up with the 4-wheel drive VW Polos of Wade van Zummeren, Jody van Zummeren and Riekus Schmidt as well as the 4-wheel drive Subaru Legacy of Des Timm with navigator Thango Tyikwe and the Audi S3 Quattro of Cape Town visitors Paul van Wyk and Matt Kohler.

In the two-wheel drive class there will no doubt be the usual close tussle between the likes of national competitors Neels Vosloo and Rikus Fourie, Ross and Roxanne Bartle, Johan and Juane’ Viljoen, Jeandre’ Marais and Tegan Taljaard all in VW Polos and Deon Kretzmann and Jason Schreiber’s Toyota Etios and Juan van Rooyen with his daughter Cailyn competing in their new Ford Fiesta for the first time.

The beauty of holding the rally at Scribante is that there are many spectator vantage points where one is able to see up to four cars competing in various stages at the same time, be it on the racetrack or on the surrounding dirt roads. Entrance to the event for spectators is set at just R50 per vehicle so everyone is encouraged to load up their friends and families, bring the braai fires and cooler boxes and enjoy the public holiday whilst enjoying the action.