Motorsport
Richard Mason will be hoping for a change of luck in the International Rally of Whangarei this weekend.
It is the second race in the 2013 New Zealand Rally Championship with Masterton ace Mason, the defending national champion, going into the event 12 points behind Geraldine's Haydon Paddon after he won the opening event, the Rally of Otago.
Mason, who as usual will have wife Sara in the co-driver's seat, readily concedes Whangarei has not been his happiest hunting ground in the past. He has led on various occasions but has yet to finish better than third.
"Personally I think my driving style isn't particularly suited to the roads there," Mason said. "So we have to adapt and I have to make an adjustment."