{"id":658,"date":"2023-02-26T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2023-02-26T05:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:47:55","slug":"gary-pulls-a-6-minute-comfortable-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Gary pulls a 6-minute comfortable lead."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Frank Kaheesi- Head FMU Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WITH six stages to be run non-stop Sunday as leg 2 for the 49th Bandama Rally, defending champion Gary Chaynes pulls ensure a comfortable six minutes lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving a Mitsubishi EvoX, Chaynes comfortably led the day sweeping clean all the six stages of the day, with the fastest total time of one hour, 8 minutes 30 seconds.<br>He beats second-placed Mitsubishi Mirage Proto driver, Maxime Abondio by six minutes 48 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experienced Subaru maestro Bottari Cyril came in third in one hour,20 minutes 57 seconds, 12minutes 27seconds off the leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Old guard Fane Bakary co-driven by his youthful daughter Fatimata in a Mitsubishi Evo9, managed a fourth place, as rookie driver Gueyes Malick closed in fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crews will wake up to the repeat of the 10.9km Parlementarie stage that was driven as stage one on Saturday, before jointly driving five other stages in a total competitive distance of 98.78km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surviving crews will then head for the day&#8217;s only service before driving their cars to final control, parc Ferme, where podium finish celebrations will be held.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Kaheesi- Head FMU Media WITH six stages to be run non-stop Sunday as leg 2 for the 49th Bandama Rally, defending champion Gary Chaynes pulls ensure a comfortable six minutes lead. Driving a Mitsubishi EvoX, Chaynes comfortably led the day sweeping clean all the six stages of the day, with the fastest total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}