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'Dream' debut as van Gisbergen lands podium - CtrlF.XYZ

'Dream' debut as van Gisbergen lands podium

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Shane van Gisbergen has survived 4 gruelling days to unafraid his maiden second-division FIA World Rally Championship podium connected debut.

Competing successful WRC2, the two-time Supercars champion finished 3rd successful his location event, Rally New Zealand, with Australian co-driver Glenn Weston.

The Kiwi bounced backmost from a adjacent miss connected Friday and a puncture connected Saturday to upwind up 3:25.1s disconnected the pb astatine the extremity of the 17-stage rally.

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Hayden Paddon claimed the people triumph successful his Hyundai i20 N, winning his location rally by a whopping 2:33.1s implicit Kajetan Kajetanowicz of Poland.

On average, van Gisbergen was conscionable 3 tenths of a 2nd slower per kilometre than Paddon implicit the people of the 279-kilometre rally.

For the Skoda Fabia R5 pilot, it was a effect to savour that included bonus points courtesy of the 3rd fastest clip successful the Power Stage.

Overall, van Gisbergen finished ninth successful the rally, meaning helium besides scored 2 points successful the WRC alongside his 16 points successful WRC2.

"It's not tough, it's fun, I'm driving a rally car successful the World Rally Championship. It's beauteous cool," said van Gisbergen.

"Glenn and I had a large time. Thanks to each our squad and our supporters. I'm surviving my imagination and past to get a podium – like, I'm stoked, I'm having a ball."

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Such was rally victor Paddon's gait that helium claimed sixth wide successful the event, which was marred by respective retirements successful the apical division.

The erstwhile factory-backed Hyundai pilot, who was a vocal campaigner for the instrumentality of Rally New Zealand, relished the occurrence connected location soil.

"It's been a precise agelong two-and-a-half days since signifier three, conscionable trying to negociate it and not bash thing silly – arsenic overmuch arsenic we wanted to beryllium pushing connected these roads," said Paddon.

"Awesome weekend. Huge acknowledgment to our team, Hyundai New Zealand, and everyone who has made this programme possible.

"Big tick of the container this year. Pleased the unit of doing this is disconnected due to the fact that we would person looked similar not truthful bully if we did thing silly. Very, precise blessed to get this done."

Outside of the apical three, Australia's Harry Bates finished 4th successful WRC2 portion Luke Anear was seventh.

Paddon's adjacent large outing volition beryllium successful Australia erstwhile helium contests the RSEA Motorsport Australia Rally Championships season-finale, the Coffs Coast Rally connected November 25-27.

Before that, van Gisbergen volition beryllium backmost successful enactment successful Supercars. His biggest contention of the year, the Bathurst 1000, takes spot crossed October 6-9.

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