 It's like little Britain down here, this is an Alcove and the Ascot Hotel in Invercargill at the end of the day and there are eight English entries in the event, all getting serviced here. The most prominent of them is Vince Bristow, who's had a pretty good day dueling with Jeff Judd. Some people have had some issues today, for some it's been business as usual and for others almost everything that could go wrong has. Sitting in there in a real tight duel with Jeff Judd, how's it going for you? You're just swapping seconds. Yeah, that's about it really, just keeping him honest. He's pushing me, I'm pushing him, so yeah, we're having a go. So catching up with Simon Tysote, all right, all good? Yeah, excellent day, no problems, no issues, just straight forward easy day. Get some sleep then? Yeah, I will do. All right, what about Jeff Judd? Sitting in front there, that's all pretty tight, good day? Yeah, all good, had an easy day. No problem? No problem. Get some sleep and get a start tomorrow. As on the other hand, John Spencer has not had a great day, but at the same time, has had a bit of luck, haven't you? I've had a lot of luck this morning. We weren't steady through the first stage, just to make sure the car was good. We had two Ks into the transport stage and went to change gear and it wouldn't come out of gear. So I drove the five or six Ks till where I'm at the service crew. And we changed the gearbox on the side of the road. And because I'd cancelled the 105 K stage, they allowed us quite a generous transport time to get to Lawrence, and which gave us enough time to change the box without penalty. So we're quite lucky there. And the rest of the day has been average, I guess, average from the driver. But we're still here. And I think I'll be back in the right frame of mind for the next two days. Another thing that happened in Dunedin this morning is that 12 more cars joined the field. They're in a separate division called the Silver Fronde. And they'll only do three days and finish on Saturday with the others. The most competitive among them is probably Dean Buist in the escort. How hard are you going to charge day one? We were having a bit of a go. Obviously we'd like to be able to be faster than all the other cars, you know, if possible. And today has been all right. We lost a lot of time in that long stage from the full chain and we can get past. Is that annoying? Yeah, it's a pain because I mean, I think what the rally says is really good. But the problem is people don't bother looking in their mirror anymore and he'd caught Dave Strong and I think he was a bit confused with what was flashing to him. And so, yeah, it was good. So these guys are on an eight day marathon. You know, I guess, you know, the cars are getting tired. One assumes the drivers are getting a bit tired too by now. Oh, you must, yeah, you do. You obviously get less and less enthused as time goes by and we're fresh, you know, first day up. How do you think it works with the two of them together? I think it works fine, you know, whether that should start halfway through the day. The biggest problem is with the seating and it's always hard the first day because with the seating of team together and then after the team, you know, but that's just life. Another competitor in the silver fron is motorsport identity down these parts, Tony Quinn. But he says he's only just recently learned how to drive on gravel. It was a bit wet this morning and miserable and stuff, but it's better here now. This three day event, it's much more of a sprint, isn't it? How does that work? How do you think it works integrating with the rest of the field? I think it's perfect. I think it's the right thing to do, you know, because some guys probably can't afford, I don't have the time to do the whole thing. And I think it just helps the event, helps the field, good thing. So your tactics, I guess, you've got to go hard tomorrow? I don't have any tactics. My tactics are to get home and because I've got to be in the USA next Wednesday, so I just got to get home, spend a day in my own bed and then off to America. That's my tactic. Tony Quinn there, perhaps selling his talents a little short as he's wanted to do. The challenge, by the way, is still being absolutely dominated by Dave Strong in the little Civic. And our overnight winner of the E-Pay $100 voucher for Found Silver is Neville Kidd. We'll have another winner tomorrow, so make sure you keep an eye out for our little mascot, the Kiwi, in the back of shot of one of our clips.