Decina Racing's Warren Luff will step out of his Ford V8 Supercar and into a 2005 Porsche Boxster S to contest the Alphera Dutton Rally in Sydney this weeke💛nd.

Luff, who i꧅s currently fifth in the HPDC V8 Supercar Series, just 42 points behind the lead, will join Motor magazine deputy editor Dean Evans to contest the event.

Joining Evans in a co-driving capacity, Luff is excited by the prospect of challenging a new course and believes the Boxster S is capable of g𒁃iving the pair a shot at the overall team title.

"We w🐷ill certainly be pushing," said Luff. "It is a fun event but all the other entries are really competitive and we know that from an overall team's perspective we actually stand a pretty good chance of victory.

"While the V8 Supercar is my strong focus this year, with the six-week gap between rounds, and the opportunity to drive a Boxster, it wasn't exactly a har🍃d choice to jump on board with Dean."

The Porsche Australia Boxster S, launched earlier thi♊s year, will run 🧔stock standard producing 206kW from its 3.2-litre mid-mounted flat-six cylinder.

Luff and Evans have previously paired up in the one-make Mitsubishi Mirage Series. As teammates, the pair dominated the 1999-200ꦆ1 Mirag🐼e one-make series with Luff winning the 1999 and 2000 championships, and Evans winning the 2001 championship.

The pair also combined in a Peugeot at the 2000 Bathur💯st 3 Hour, to finish runner-up behind Greg Murphy/Steven Riꦏchards.

This will be the 2004 V8 Supercar Rookie of the Y🎐ear's third Dutton experience, after previously contesting the Melbourne rally with good friend James Dutton in a Mini Cooper.

"I have done the Melbourn𒅌e rally twice, but I haven't tackled the Sydney one yet," said Luff.

The competitiv𝔍e Luff and Evans are aiming to exploit the strengths of the Boxster S and offer a challenge to rei🐷gning NSW and Queensland Champions, Martin Notaras and Simon Arthur's Mitsubishi Evolution VIII.

"Obviously all the race track based stuff is going to be really good for the Boxster and a lot of the small auto tests that a🦹re pretty tight will definitely suit the car.

"The Boxster is such a good overall balanced package and chassis it will be a✃ lot of fun to throw✃ it around.

"We are going out there to win fo🐬r sure, it's why we go moto♕r racing," said Luff.

This weekend's 🍰round of the Alphera Dutton Rally Series takes place around the tracks, streets and motorkhans of Goulburn and Canberra on the Friday and Saturday with the final day of competition being held ♚around Eastern Creek Raceway on Sunday.