 The four team were in Dunedin in sunshine today, heading for Invercargill. Got some interesting stages including going through the Catlins. Six stages, 150 odd k's of specials, 370 of touring. The Park Fermi tonight is right in Invercargill. They need to be there by 8.30. The first cars will be in around about 6.30 tonight. A great testament to some of the service crews and their ingenuity. We had several people yesterday that looked as though their problems were terminal. Jason Gill, I thought, blew smoke in the morning, wasn't looking good, thought he'd blown an engine, so did he. Jason noticed at the start line yesterday there was a fair amount of smoke coming out. Blue smoke didn't look great and then later on when we heard on the great vine that he had blown an engine, it didn't sound surprising, but it wasn't, was it? No, one actual fact happened was the oil pressure switch had broken off the back of the motor. It must have been, sort of, starting to leak, but it actually broke off during the stage, which dumped all the oil out of the car. And we thought we'd actually blow on the motor because it was the same symptoms as last year, so we shut it down and luckily the motor's fine. We got the $20 part from Repco and we're back in the race. Neil Tolage in the Capri also thought he was out terminal engine had seized, but not so. He's back in. What happened was this, that we'd been trying to take it reasonably easy to keep the tyres safe for the rest of the event. And I decided to just go a bit quicker on that stage, but it was doing nothing silly. Changed from third to fourth at six and a half thousand revs as normal and the engine just died, dead and blew smoke pouring out of the back in the mirrors. We thought, God, the engine's launched itself, pulled over, blew smoke pouring out of the exhaust. It wasn't running, just coming out, so we thought the engine was just molten inside. Anyhow, tried to start it, was blocked, so that was that. Towed it into Omaru, lovely guy, garage. We started to open up everything and turned the engine over with the smoke plugs out and water flew out of every cylinder. We said, where did the water come from? And a water jacket on the gasket had come through, got into the inlet manifold, filled all the cylinders with water, snuffed the engine out and the blue smoke was glycol burning. So a dear old guy in a pensioner flat had a Ford fair lane, a gasket set for a 302 Windsor, put it on and it's running like a clock. Robert Gunn in the Walkenshaw Commodore looked like it was off in the bush and out of the event on day one. A hairpin my way? Oh, you okay? We came over the brow of a hill and we were carrying a bit too much speed. We got half way round and the back of the car let go and we were passengers for the rest of the time. We parked up a hill. We put it on a Cheshire rig yesterday and they straightened the back out and it's all good, so quiet day today and see how we go. Tony Quinn in the Lamborghini ended up in a paddock. Well that car was totaled and he wouldn't be back but he says he'll be back on Friday. So there's some great mechanics, there's been some great work done and some real Kiwi ingenuity in getting these cars back on the road.