Arentz victorious at Baw Baw, leads ATRC championship

TMR clients and reigning ATRC champions Clinton Arentz and co-driver Peter Burrey have taken victory in the 2013 Mt. Baw Baw Sprint, round one of the Australian Tarmac Rally Championship, held on March 2-3.

Arentz and his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X battled with the Samantha Stevens/Daniel Lemish Evo VI throughout two days of competitive multi-stage rallying, emerging victorious by a scant 50 seconds after nearly two and a half hours of stage action.

As well as Stevens/Lemish, the Subaru of Nathan Reeves/Reubecca Sheldrick and the Evos of Danny Traverso/Tim Kulhanek and Jeff and Catherine Denmeade all won at least one individual stage but suffered from a variety of problems.

“We are very happy with the way Clint and Pete went,” explained TMR boss Alan Heaphy. “There were several competitive cars that threatened at one stage or another but we were able to maintain our pace and get to the finish on top of the podium.”

Consistency was the key for the pair, who focussed on finishing each of the 16 stages near the top of the charts. The strategy paid off and they take the maximum 1000 points and a championship lead into round two of the four-round series, to be held at Lake Mountain, Victoria on May 25-26.