{"id":56535,"date":"2016-09-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/56535\/championship-beckons\/"},"modified":"2016-09-15T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T10:29:18","slug":"championship-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/15\/championship-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pair have won each round of this year\u2019s championship, in their Toyota Gazoo Racing SA, in association with Total Quartz, Yaris S2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing season so far,\u201d says Poulter. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a great run, and the Toyota Yaris has been absolutely faultless. We had a tough event in the Cape last year, and we\u2019ll be looking to make it good this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teammates Giniel de Villiers and navigator Carolyn Swan are the only other crew with a mathematical chance of stealing Poulter\/Coetzee\u2019s thunder. If De Villiers\/Swan win the Toyota Cape Dealer Rally, the title fight continues to round seven.<\/p>\n<p>The rally gets under way with scrutineering at 18:00 on Thursday, 15 September, at Imperial Toyota Cape Gate. Friday sees a ceremonial start at McCarthy Toyota Table View, before the crews tackle four stages at the Killarney racetrack. The event concludes on Saturday, with a restart at Malmesbury Toyota, and stages around the Swartland town of Malmesbury.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-56535 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/15\/championship-beckons\/attachment\/elvene_21339\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/09\/elvene_21339-270x203.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-56537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/09\/elvene_21339-270x203.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/09\/elvene_21339-520x390.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2016\/09\/elvene_21339.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-56537'>\n\t\t\t\tWell-known Middelburg rally navigator Elv\u00e9ne Coetzee.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round six of the seven-rounds South African National Rally Championship is the Toyota Cape Dealer Rally, which takes place on 16 and 17 September in the Swartland &#8211; and victory for Leeroy Poulter and navigator Elv\u00e9ne Coetzee on Toyota\u2019s home event, will see them clinch the 2016 championship title. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":56536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}