When you exit a rally car and find bushes caught in its panels, you know you’ve gone close to the edge. Rotorua driver Sloan Cox tested his car at an Otago Rally shakedown in Dunedin yesterday and took me and some bush along for the ride. The roar of the engine invokes delusions of being Goose in the movie Top Gun, seated in a fighter jet about to leave an aircraft carrier. On the signal to go, Cox drops the clutch, throwing me firmly back in the seat and back to reality. He is no stranger to podium finishes, or the Otago Rally, and keeps returning because he loves Otago’s "fast and scary" roads.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 06, 2017 18:00 UTC