The two crews that make up the formidable Basil Read Ford Rally Team are looking forward to meeting the challenges that lie in wait in Mpumalanga when the Sasol Rally is staged in that popular rally area on April 20-21.

Following their best start to a rally season in three years after claiming a podium place on the season-opening Total Rally last month, all indications are that Charl Wilken and Greg Godrich will again deliver a top-drawer performance when the Sasol Rally gets underway in Sabie on Friday, 20^th April.

The Basil Read Ford Rally Team of Charl Wilken and Greg Godrich came out fighting hard at the start of the 2012 South African Rally Championship, winning the opening stage of the Total Rally to take a slender lead. A trouble free run saw the pair claim the final step of the podium, their best result on the event in the Ford Fiesta S2000.

This year's SA Rally Championship is building up to have the potential to be one of the hardest-fought in history with several new cars and changes in the teams heightening the levels of competitiveness that were seen in 2011.

2011 FIA WRC Academy Champions, Craig Breen and Gareth Roberts, finished second in the S-WRC at Rally Sweden this weekend to maintain their lead at the head of the Championship - 18 points clear of local driver and double J-WRC Champion, P-G Andersson.