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CHAMPIONSHIP BECKONS AS TOYOTA GAZOO
CHAMPIONSHIP BECKONS AS TOYOTA GAZOO
RACING SA TACKLES HOME EVENT
Round six of the seven-rounds South African National Rally Championship is the Toyota Cape Dealer Rally, which takes place on 16 and 17 September in the Swartland - and victory for Leeroy Poulter and navigator ElvÈne Coetzee on Toyota's home event, will see them clinch the 2016 championship title. The pair have won each round of this year's championship, in their Toyota Gazoo Racing SA, in association with Total Quartz, Yaris S2000.
"It's been an amazing season so far," says Poulter. "We've had a great run, and the Toyota Yaris has been absolutely faultless. We had a tough event in the Cape last year, and we'll be looking to make good this time."
Teammates Giniel de Villiers and navigator Carolyn Swan are the only other crew with a mathematical chance of stealing Poulter/Coetzee's thunder. If De Villiers/Swan win the Toyota Cape Dealer Rally, the title fight continues to round seve