 With clear skies and time to make up Marco Martin has been this morning's hard charger Bringing back a large overnight deficit to be within seven seconds of the leader Regan Ross who gave him a little bit of help Yeah, he had a spin and lost a bit of time So which was kind of good to see because we lost a bit of time yesterday with different Issues so now we got a little bit closer again. So let's see now two long stays to go it will be quite tough Whilst losing time on special stage eight with the spin issue Ross was also back on the spanners to help his crew with some repairs during service Just a little bit of a gearbox change in the minimal amount of time, but yeah, just lost fourth gear in the Waipori stage So we're just a bit of panic stations I quite a good gearbox to change but you need a few people to help yesterday thing But yeah, we'll seem to be all over it now Derek Aisin lost his podium position after he clipped a corner and broke a ball joint He will however remain in the rally. That's it. We're out. Why this first stage We're having a bit of a push and just clipped the inside of a corner It hadn't even noted it as stonk cut, but it was just a clayy bank Just grabbed the wheel and sort of tore it around so broke a bottom steering arm and So that now moves the chasing RX-7s of Marcus van Klink and John Silcock into third and fourth Respectively yet for van Klink It was nearly all over but a hastily replaced clutch cylinder has seen him stay on track for a podium finish We're there if they drop off the road basically, but they've got a few issues with this clutch So we'll push it out of control now and hopefully get you on time You know that the classic is big when veteran driver Shane Merlund has a number nine on the door Rather than a lower number he might normally expect Yeah, I'm getting older too, so they're taking a bit of pity on me now I mean last time we were here we had to be right up and completely destroyed the car and that was our first time on notes so So you can imagine this time round I'm a little bit dubious on what I'm hearing and and my my career hasn't been on All unfamiliar Special stage 11 is the longest of the rally and it was here that Ross surrendered his lead to Martin after more mechanical woes This time it was a clutch master cylinder This stage was also the undoing of Marcus van Klink He went off the road after the first 600 meters gifting third place to John Silcock Now there are only three stages remaining for the event 53 kilometers of gravel to see if Regan Ross can somehow claw his way back or if Marco Martin can make it two in a row