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 goingto 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.
Joseph admits to being quite keen on rally cars before, but now ... well, he was intent on going home after school yesterday and trying to talk his dad into taking him out to one of the rally vantage points so he could see the action first hand.
