Joseph Squires, 11, didn't mind getting up early and heading off to the Classic Hits radio station before school yesterday morning.
He and two classmates had to go and chat a bit on air and hang out with a few famous people, but there was no way he was going to be late to class at Kamo Intermediate because he and two classmates got a lift there in a rally car.
"It was awesome," said Joseph of the experience.
Joseph's class had won a Brother International Rally of Whangarei art competition, using cellophane for windows and "signwriting" the bonnet of pictures of rally cars.
As well as the three pupils having a chance to talk in the studio with radio announcer Mike Plant, and be driven to school in a rally car - in Joseph's case by Swedish driver Per Gunnar Andersson in a pretty nifty Team Proton Satria Neo S2000 - they also won a Brother printer for their school.
