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New Zealand driver Emma Gilmour has accepted an invitation to contest the motor rally of Japan on October 25-28.
She will compete in the world championship event as a guest driver for Subaru, joining teammate and reigning Japanese champion Noriyuki Katsuka.
"Top Australians Cody Crocker and Dean Herridge have both taken up the offer in the past, and this year I am delighted to do the same," said Gilmour, of Dunedin.
Gilmour and her regular co-driver Glenn Macneall will drive a production class Impreza STI in the rally.
While Gilmour has never contested Japan's world championship event before, she has previously competed in Japan.
"Actually, my first ever rally as a driver outside of New Zealand was a rally in Japan," she said.
"It was a tarmac event, though, whereas Rally Japan is a gravel event, held mainly in forests on the country's northern island of Hokkaido."
Gilmour has competed in three world championship event outside of New Zealand.
- NZPA
