Australian Rally star Eli Evans had his first outing in the Honda Civic Type R and declared himself ready to go for the 2010 Australian Rally Championship, which gets under way in Tasmania from February 26 to 28.
On a hot and steamy day at the Broadford Motorsport complex, Evans and co-driver Glen Weston completed over 40 laps of the twisty circuit, to dial themselves into the new car.
Evans was pleased with the overall performance of the Civic Type R and made only made minor suspension tweaks throughout the day.

Eli Evans: “Today was very productive and gave Glen and I the chance to familiarize ourselves with the Civic Type R. We played around with a few different things just to see how the car reacts to changes and I feel very comfortable with it. I can’t wait for the chance to show its potential in Tasmania.”

Mads Fischer , JAS Motorsport  Rally Project Leader , is very pleased of the first test  “ I am happy of  the  Australian Campaign first step :  a great challenge, but we are conscious of the driver skill and of the car potential and therefore we believe to have all the ingredients to face this exciting adventure in Australia”