Richard and Sara Mason have the record books in their sights after their near perfect winning effort in the Trust House Racetech Rally of Wairarapa over the weekend.
Victory meant Richard Mason became only the second driver in New Zealand Rally Championship history to have won 20 rounds of that
competition and three more will see him overtake record holder Neil Allport. And wife Sara has moved up the co-driver rankings to be tied for second on 17 wins with Rob Ryan.
Richard Mason said the bettering of Allport's record had been on his mind for some time and, the closer he got, the more determined he had become to overhaul it.
However, he knows only too well the perils of predicting what will happen from one rally to the next, let alone further down the track.
"It's definitely within reach now but rallying is the sort of sport where you can't guarantee anything. We'll just take things as they come and hope it happens sooner than later." Mason's latest Wairarapa win was his seventh in that rally - a record in itself - and his one-minute advantage over Dunedin's Emma Gilmour represented one of his most comfortable victories, in terms of margin and manner.
