WEDDERBURN driver Brendan Reeves finished Rally Australia on a high last weekend, claiming race honours on the final two legs.
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The hard-fought victories followed a frustrating start to the event, when a broken camshaft on his Mazda2 forced him to retire on the second stage of leg one on the Friday.
Reeves and his co-driving sister Rhianon Gelsomino also took out the Power Stage of the rally, which was based out of Coffs Harbour and was round five of the Australian Rally Championship series.
But the withdrawal was a huge blow to Reeves’ chances of winning the ARC title.
He went into the rally trailing rival Scott Pedder by five points, but levelled the score with his superb Power Stage result.
While he failed to score on day one, Pedder claimed maximum points and later extended his lead with the overall rally win.
Reeves retained second place on the driver’s championship table, but sits 23 points behind Pedder.
“After our disappointing start on day one, Rhianon and I are rapt to finish with two leg wins,” Reeves said.
“We love competing on the Coffs Coast roads in Rally Australia and we’ve always managed to get a good result here.
“We were determined to bring home a good points haul to keep our championship title hopes alive.”
The ARC driver’s title will go down to the wire at Rally Victoria, to be held in Warragul in November.