 We're in Timaru and today Kura for lunch to needn't for dinner. It's going to be a very long day There are seven stages. We're forecasting some fairly foul weather along the way and the news overnight Brent Raustron has withdrawn after that big off. They decided they couldn't fix it overnight So they have withdrawn this morning leaving Vince Bristow the Englishman 4.6 seconds ahead of Jeff Judd Jeff Judd holding the Kiwi hopes and running three on the road and in third place overall now is another Englishman in a BDA This is Simon Tyso yesterday's big mover and of course still leading the challenge by quite a substantial margin now Dave Strong in the fabulous little Civic Type R almost a standard production car and going brilliantly