 Six gravel stages and one tarmac special is what the competitors have dealt with today and it's given us some interesting results. As happens in rallying, as fortunes can come quickly, former Otago classic winner Jeff Judd has had more than his share of tiny troubles. It's been an enjoyable day and for the things we've had to deal with, we were actually lucky we haven't lost that much time. The alternator must have faulted somehow in stage two and three and was overcharging. The battery gave up on the end and burst and let its acid into the car and the fumes. And I wasn't feeling too comfortable for a while then. John Spencer had multiple mechanical issues knocking him out of contention. And after a great morning Simon Evans had to deal with a flat tyre. Into right three long, right three long, three hundred. While fellow Australian Keith Kalanen was sidelined with a broken gearbox. Though still in the game though, are loving the roads and fighting hard. Third place, Derrick Aysen being one of them. The day's been going pretty good really, we had a spin on about the stage three. I think at a spectator junction was a bit of task here and thought we had it but it just flipped around so I think it caught a few people out. Other than that forestry, we got a bit of a tallying in there. Just quite rutty and had to get through it so we're just trying to make a bit of time back up. And yes, the last couple were awesome, good rows, I really enjoyed them. Ashton Wood is seventh overall and will need a big day on Sunday to push himself further up the standings in his very special escort. Ari Vartanen drove it here and won the international rally and wiped nearly every corner known to man off the car. That was his start of his career at the big end or the top end of the international front. The man behind Stadium cars, the home of good sports, reckons the Otago rally is also the home of good sports. Tony Gosling himself has had a great day but he was close to throwing it all away on the final session, the Tamec Special. Just brings out all the fuss guys, the whole field of cars is just for really good people. Everybody looks forward to it or which other to the atmosphere because everybody's happy, they've been waiting for it all year you know, so they're really happy to be here and really happy to have the cars all straight especially after the close one and that super special though. But the man who has had the best of days is Regan Ross who now holds a lead of more than 20 seconds over current champion Marco Martin and he's doing it on a shoestring budget. Rallying is such a hard sport, you know, obviously financially, time commitment and it still seems to get harder in every year for crew and co-drivers and things so lucky to get Lisa on board and we're skeleton crew, we've got my father and it's me so there's no one else so you know, I know the car inside out pretty well. I can undo things, not really going to turn them back up again but hey look no one else is going to do it are they? Yep, there you go, push it! So that's just some of the action from the day of rallying in Otago tomorrow. Seven more stages that will test the metal of all the classic drivers.