 We're at the end of the day Park Firmay on day three so we're in Christchurch and we're waiting for them all to come in there's been a bit of a delay we had an issue on one of the stages the last of the day a big gold gnarly 71k stage it's gonna end up being slightly shortened and that delay will mean that they're going to be probably another 20 minutes before they arrive here at Park Firmay for the night. Now Brent I've been watching a bit of video from earlier in the day and you were having a hell of a day aren't you? You look like you're having a lot of fun. I'm having a huge amount of fun. Didn't like the third stage love the first two stages oh and the fourth stage but the forest out of Pogatika was a bit rough and bumpy not for me so Juddy and I both slowed down so we actually didn't didn't inflict much damage on either of each other's times actually. Well it looks like one of your Irish challenges is departed. Yeah I just didn't come out of the last stage and then we took a minute off of Taiso as well something Taiso in that stage so our gap's now two and a half minutes to fourth. We're never going to catch Juddy and Bristol ahead of us but hey there's a long long way to go yet. So hot you know norwest bony dry roads and the tyres just went up to it I mean it was shortened from 73k to about 40k and our tyres were like jelly at the end and no brakes and I had a wee spin so we yeah we were glad it went it finished. You reckon you got a good enough margin to defend or you got some more work to do yet? Oh there's lots of work to do we're only three days into it five to go and anything can happen anything can break so we could have all you whoopsie a puncture so who knows. Having lost all that time you got back in and attacked it this morning well don't you one first stage how'd you go for the rest of the day? Second stage was good but unfortunately the third stage we might have been pushing a little bit hard and I just cut the apex of a corner and there was a rock which I couldn't even see when I see the in-car camera footage and see if you can see it there it's like a piece of fern hanging down and we hit that at pace and it broke the wheel and the side of the steering arm and so we limped out of the stage got going again but lost a bit more time then I've done a ride later on the day it's been fun. I hope you had a little go you in there Johnny snuck some out while I was asleep first thing this morning so we nicked it back off him which he wasn't very happy about then he took some but it's just a kind of mouse thing really. Well you've done really well on that last stage today you must be happy with that shortened to 40k but you went well. Yeah I'm amazed because it felt so scary through there you know the drops are big and you just got a street abortion really and yeah please we won it. Is he okay holding up? Yes it certainly sounds just a bit tired now and the underguards have taken a real hammering it's been roughing quite a lot of places and the guards are now rattling on the rattling on the sub-frame and but generally it's okay. We've got a few issues with the gearbox still overheating and throwing the oil out and stuff like that we're still trying to manage that. Apart from the fact that it's spewing a bit of oil in the front and you're containing that is it doing any damage to the gearbox? No no it's still got plenty we're just checked now it's got plenty in there and we've got plenty more to go in so just getting all over-hevelling and it's a bit sort of concerning why it's suddenly doing it so. Early days yet but reasonable lead here are you thinking of defending or are you still attacking? No I'm still just treating every stage as it comes if it's a good stage I'm going for it and attacking it if it's not right I'll ease up. Service break at the end of day three it's been a really gnarly day particularly the last stage which all of the drivers have said was very very hard on machinery. The only change really is that both Vince Bristow and Brent Raustron have been really committed and absolutely going for it today and they are two and three behind Jeff Jutt and Dave Strong still leading the challenge class he's had a wonderful day and he's now got three minutes 46 lead. Tomorrow day four we're hitting for Timaru.