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Andersson joins Stobart week’s exciting edition! 14 Events Yours in Rallying, 15 Serbia Rally 16 Rallye de Portugal Historic Evan Rothman 17 Donegal International Rally 18 FST IE Donegal Rally 19 RSAC Scottish Rally 20 White Nights Rally 2010 22 Pikes Peak Int’l Hill Climb 23 IRC Geko Ypres Rally Contact E-mail us [email protected] Call us +27 83 452 6892 Surf us http://wp.me/pkXc To receive your FREE weekly HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS eMagazine, or if you’d like to share this with a friend please send your e-mail address to [email protected]. HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS is not a SPAM e-mail: email addresses are added to the mailing list voluntarily. Editorial Information Editor Evan Rothman Photojournalist Eva Kovkova Contributors Dean Campbell, Liga Stirna, Christiam Mateus, Josefi ne Beinke, Tim Williams, RallyBuzz. All content copyrighted property of HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, 2007- 10. 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Skoda UK’s Guy Wilks is sidelined While Green and Leyraud are nearly three times with fractured vertebrae, but the works team drivers Juho Reeves’ age, their vast experience on all the three Pacifi c Cup Hänninen and Jan Kopecky will be there, along with Belgian rallies is not to be underestimated. Reeves is well aware both favourite Freddy Loix, plus Alister McRae and Chris Atkinson in are former champions and said: “The best advice I was ever their Protons and Andreas Mikkelsen in his Ford Fiesta S2000. given was ‘to fi nish fi rst, fi rst you must fi nish’ and that will be Can’t get there? Rally Radio is broadcasting live on my strategy.” iRally on the iPhone, on www.peugeot.co.uk, on www.ircseries. Other entrants in the Pacifi c Cup are top runners last com, on www.ypresrally.com and www.autosport.com. year’s Rally Whangarei winner Hayden Paddon and current Julian Porter anchors the programme, with Colin Clark New Zealand Rally Championship leader Dean Sumner. Paddon and Lisa O’Sullivan out at the Stage Ends and Greg Strange in and Sumner as well as young Kiwi drivers Sloan Cox and Ben the Service Park. Programming goes live on: Jagger are all registered for Pacifi c Cup points courtesy of their • Friday 25th June at 1600 local time (1500 UK) selection as APRC wildcard entrants. • Saturday 26th June at 1045 local time (0945 UK) Seeded sixth – with Leyraud 11th and Green 12th E-mail the studio any time: [email protected] – Reeves is keen to impress with another solid result in Follow all the action with iRally, the free independent Whangarei to help secure sponsors for a full APRC campaign Rally App for the iPhone. iRally covers both WRC and IRC and in 2011. He expects his greatest challenge for Pacifi c Cup it’s free! honours to come from Paddon who was the man to beat on - Credit: Rally Radio. last year’s event and has plenty of experience on the roads around Whangarei. Paddon, Sumner, Cox and Jagger are not R.I.P. Thomas Maguire contesting the Queensland and New Caledonia events at this Popular Irish co-driver Thomas Maguire was tragically killed stage, leaving the regional series to be fought out by Reeves, when the car he was travelling in left the road during the Green and Leyraud. Knockalla stage of the 2010 Donegal International Rally. The International Rally of Whangarei runs from Shane Buckley, the driver of the car, was described as 2 to 4 July with pre-event promotional activities like the being in a critical but stable condition at Letterkenny General popular driver autograph signing session and the offi cial start Hospital. ceremony taking place in Whangarei’s Cameron Street Mall Donegal Rally Clerk of the Course, Danny Gormley, from 3:30 pm on Friday. said in a statement last night: “Our thoughts and prayers are The rally action runs Saturday and Sunday with with the Maguire family and the family of the competitor who stage times and the offi cial rally map available from the event was injured at this very diffi cult time. website, www.rallywhangarei.co.nz, or free from the rally “Thomas loved rallying and his loss has deeply headquarters at Quayside Town Basin. affected everyone involved in the rally. His loss will be felt by The event concludes with Sunday’s offi cial ceremonial rallying fans all over the country. It was the view of everyone fi nish from 3:30pm beside the rally headquarters. in the DMC that the remainder of this year’s rally should be cancelled as a mark of respect.” The rally counts for points for: Donegal Rally competitors and offi cials attended a - 2010 FIA Asia Pacifi c Rally Championship (round 3) memorial service for Thomas at the Mount Errigal Hotel this - 2010 FIA Pacifi c Cup (round 1) morning. - 2010 Vantage Aluminium Joinery New Zealand Rally The remaining stages of the 2010 Donegal Rally were Championship (round 3) cancelled as a mark of respect to the Maguire family. - 2010 Stilo Top Half Rally Series R.I.P. Thomas Maguire 1984 - 2010 - Credit: www.rallybuzz.com - Credit: www.rallybuzz.com Daily news updates, photographs, Australian Reeves takes on FIA reports available from H&H ONLINE Pacifi c Cup in Whangarei To view the latest news from the fast-paced world of rallying, Young Australian rally driver Brendan Reeves is up against reader can join our Facebook fan page HERE, or sign-up for two of the Asia Pacifi c region’s most experienced rally drivers daily and weekly news streams from our website HERE, and if in one of the subsidiary competitions being contested during you are on twitter follow our editor HERE. July’s International Rally of Whangarei. We look forward to your interactions, views and As well as competing for overall honours in the two- comments online. day rally, 21-year-old Reeves is gunning for points in the 2010 FIA Pacifi c Cup, a segment of the 2010 FIA Asia Pacifi c Rally Championship. Also registered for Pacifi c Cup points are two of the sport’s long-time competitors, Palmerston North’s Brian Green and Jean-Louis Leyraud from New Caledonia. Reeves has contested the Whangarei event for the past two years, fi nishing third overall last year in a Subaru Impreza borrowed from Emma Gilmour. Reeves’ 2010 Pacifi c Cup campaign takes him and co- driving sister Rhiannon Smyth to Rally Queensland and Rally FEATURESNEWS Interactive News: Stories posted on use-irc-debut-for-tarmac-experience/ H&H’s website and Facebook Page • IRC Ace Wilks predicts incredible Ypres Rally To