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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe remains of the Mitsubishi that Toby Price crashed in the Adelaide Hills Rally.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe remains of the Mitsubishi that Toby Price crashed in the Adelaide Hills Rally.<\/p>\n
Price was making his first start in the EROAD Australian Rally Championship Production Cup, stepping up from the Subaru WRX Challenge.<\/p>\n
Driving a borrowed Mitsubishi, Price misjudged a right-hander on Special Stage 3 and ploughed through a fence before flipping the car several times over.<\/p>\n
Price escaped with just a few scratches while Kilbride suffered minor neck injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tough one to swallow,\u201d said Price.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a mistake, and unfortunately it happens. We\u2019ve gone for a roll.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a tough one. It\u2019s not what I was setting out to do. The first couple of stages, I was just getting through, and I feel like in that one I wasn\u2019t doing anything too crazy.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne note we called, and it was a right nine. I feel like I committed to the nine but it seems like it was a little bit tighter than what we recce\u2019d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just made an error. Instead of going into some trees, I tried to pick a field and unfortunately going out into that field there was a big rock in there.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The rock) hit the sump plate and we went for a roll. Not great. Not what I was setting out here to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a brutal end to the rally for Price, who had been given the car by Glenn Brinkman to compete.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel bad for Glenn and handing him back a crumpled can, but the main thing is I\u2019m safe,\u201d said Price.<\/p>\n
Price\u2019s co-driver Kilbride was taken to Adelaide Hospital for an MRI after reportedly suffering neck pain.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything from there seems like she\u2019s beginning to clear,\u201d said Price.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe just got a little bit of a sore neck, so I think hopefully it\u2019s just some strain on some muscles on her neck and something pretty light.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther than that, the safety equipment did its job and we\u2019re here in one piece.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a tough one to take. I didn\u2019t want to be doing that and unfortunately it\u2019s part of the rally sport and we make mistakes, but we\u2019ve just go to make sure we learn from them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rally continues on Sunday with Heat 2. Heat 1 was taken out by New Zealand\u2019s Hayden Paddon in his Hyundai i20 N Rally2.<\/p>\n
Paddon wound up 20.2s clear of Toyota GR Yaris driver Lewis Bates while Alex Rullo was third in his Hyundai.<\/p>\n
Harry Bates was an early retirement, all but ending his hopes of winning the Australian Rally Championship after he crashed on Special Stage 7.<\/p>\n
Bates had been just a few seconds behind Paddon before his untimely crash, which gifted Paddon a comfortable lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously mission accomplished in the respect of winning Heat 1 and extending the championship lead,\u201d said Paddon.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it was a real shame that Harry had his little off road excursion today. It was obviously a close fight and I think we would have been pushing each other right to the end.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, obviously once Harry was on the side of the road, we sort of backed off a bit just to look after tyres. But in saying that, Louis has not been far away all day as well, so it\u2019s close.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains of the Mitsubishi that Toby Price crashed in the Adelaide Hills Rally. Price was making his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,216,213,49582],"class_list":["post-60272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot3","tag-sports","tag-toby-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}