In the Milburn Gravel Sprint, 21 drivers lined up to try out a new 2.85km piece of road on Saturday, and numbers swelled to 30 for the 2.4km Whare Flat Hillclimb yesterday.
Saying there was no secret to his dominance of both events, Kaitangata's Duncan McCrostie put it down to the "ample" 400hp his Mitsubishi Evo has at the wheels.
Mike Wellington, of Dunedin, was hard on his heels for second overall. He settled for third at Milburn and pushed hard to finish 0.68sec behind McCrostie yesterday in his Mitsubishi Evo 6.
Proving that two-wheel-drive cars have got the grunt to dish it out to the four-wheel-drive fast men, Mosgiel's Chris Hey powered his Toyota MR2 to second on Saturday and fourth on Sunday. He wound up third overall for the weekend.
New Zealand V8 Championship driver Chris Adams, of Mosgiel, may be thinking he is safer on a circuit after he rode up a bank yesterday and rolled his V8-powered Toyota Starlet.
While the car sustained moderate damage, neither Adams nor his co-driver were hurt.
Usual front-runner Glenn Frew struggled over the weekend with a fault that left his Mitsubishi Evo down on power.
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