Husband and wife team Richard and Sara Mason led from start to finish at this weekend's Rally Otago to take the lead in the New Zealand Rally Championship.
The Otago event is the third NZRC round of the season, and the Masons took a 53 second lead over Timaru's Chris West and Chris Cobham into today's (Sun) final stages.
And the Masons came home comfortably today, with a margin of more than two minutes over West with Dunedin's Emma Gilmour and co-driver Anthony McLoughlin wrapping up the event's 17 stages third overall.
Winning both legs in Otago earned the Masons maximum points toward the five-round NZRC series, while Richard Mason now has 90 points in the overall NZRC drivers' championship, 20 ahead of Gilmour in second place.
"We've ticked another one up - the second in a row for the year," Mason said. "So we're very happy with that. We're taking home a maximum points score and cemented a good lead in the NZRC.