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Toni Pebbles, Viv Pebbles and Janelle Peebles 4 july 2019 I essence essence I july 2019 5 words: Gilly Oppenheim essential I profile Chance Samantha Gray of a The Exhilaration Lifetime of Rallying Liz and I were sent to cover the story of Hayden Paddon’s new racing car for Essence. Little did I think that this innocent evening would result in my of the car became fuzzy. Hayden was Holding her nerve barrelling along at 190 km per hour, Geraldine, Sam and David Quantock had finished third lucky number seven being chosen for a completely focussed on driving as he excellent concentration, accurate time management in their class and sixth overall. She then teamed up with spin with him in his rally car! effortlessly switched through the gears, and organisational skills, as well as having good neck Keith Anderson and their first rallies were a chapter of moving the steering wheel left and right Then the panic set in! What if I get to stay on the track. Left, right, then left strength (as the rallies are spent looking down at pace mechanical gremlins – in the 2016 Mainland Rally Series motion sickness? How embarrassing notes in her lap) are all attributes Sam Gray has in they had an engine blow up, then a tyre rod arm bent, again as we swung through a bend. The So how did the would that be! The Sunday for my ride road ahead turned into a blur, just like in a spades. Not to mention sheer guts as the car skids on and the radiator hose broke, all within the first three arrived and it was a stunning sunny shingle, slides off the road on black ice, rolls down a rallies together.