Kuun, Hodgson emerge as champs.(Motoring)

BYLINE: Motoring Correspondent

Enzo Kuun and Guy Hodgson, in a BP VW Polo, are the 2006 SA rally champions - despite being beaten by seven seconds by Serge Damseaux and Robert Paisley (Castrol Toyota RunX) in the Subaru Cape Rally at the weekend.

Second place gave Kuun his first national championship title and breaks the 15-year domination of the championship by Damseaux with 10 wins and Jan Habig with five.

In atrocious conditions in the penultimate round of the 2006 Sasol SA Rally Championship, described by one competitor as "so wet I wouldn't have sent my duck out in it", 10-times SA champion Damseaux made his intentions clear from the start …