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Hergen Fekken and Pierre Arries got their 2010 Sasol SA Rally Championship challenge off to a perfect start after dominating the second day of the Total Tour Natal Rally in their factory BP Ultimate Volkswagen Polo, at the weekend, leading home a commanding 1-2 result for VW.
Mark Cronje/Robert Paisley claimed the final step of the podium for the works Castrol Toyota Auris team, while the young Zimbabwean Conrad Rautenbach/Peter Marsh claimed fourth overall in their Prodrive Subaru Impreza N16.
Three major accidents befell the rally fraternity and only through good fortune was a double tragedy averted after Schalk Burger Jr/Armand du Toit (S2000 Automark Toyota RunX) crashed and rolled down a bank, landing upside down in a river.
Four spectators rushed to the scene and got the car onto its side and the crew's heads above water. Both Burger and Du Toit are relatively unscathed.
Mohammed Moosa/Grant Martin crashed their S2000 Team Total Toyota RunX at the exact same spot two minutes later and rolled end-over-end to land 20 metres from Burger's stricken car.
Moosa suffered a broken collar bone while Martin was shaken but unhurt.
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