Second overall in the Challenge class is the Toyota Corolla DX of Mike Goldsbury and Dan Wallis.
This time it was a cautioned corner which caught Robinson and Collis out, the Yorkshire pair firing off the road and into a paddock. The corner also claimed Shane Murland and John Benton, Murland deciding to call it quits after rolling his car into a patch of blackberries, and very nearly also saw Jeff Judd and Stephane Prevot join them in the paddock. All is not lost for Robinson and Collis, though, as their Escort sustained only minor damage and once a local farmer towed them back onto the road they were back in action and finished just 1.9 seconds behind Evans and Williams in the final stage of the day before the overnight stop in Ohakune. The only problem was the time they lost; by taking a maximum time (35 mins) for the stage they left the road on, the pair went from leading the event with five minutes in hand, to being classified at day’s end 8th, 22 minutes behind new leaders Evans and Williams. Jeff Judd and Stephane Prevot are now settled into second place, a minute and a half behind the new leaders, but with a buffer of almost five minutes over British pair Roger Chilman and Max Freeman.Both overnight #SilverFernRally leader #21 Matthew Robinson 🇬🇧 and overnight second place holder #18 Shane Murland 🇳🇿 exited the road on the same corner of SS20. Both crews are OK Robinson drove off once pulled back to road. Murland's engine restarted photo Graham Hughes pic.twitter.com/vUAl8Bbckk
— Gary KiwiWRCfan Boyd (@KiwiWRCfan) November 26, 2018
Up to fifth overall now are Kiwis Brent Rawstron and Ian McKee in Rawstron’s Ford Escort RS 1800.
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