Dunedin Isuzu have joined forces with the Otago Rally as the naming rights sponsor for the national championship field of the 2018 event. To be known as ‘Dunedin Isuzu Otago NZRC Rally’, the event is once again the opening round of the national championship, and will be held on April 14 and 15. There are four rallies making up the …
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The sights and sounds of early 1990s Group A rallying will create a new feature at the 2018 Otago Rally, with the addition of a Classic 4WD class for the 2018 event. The Classic 4WD field will run to the Group A Rally Challenge regulations, allowing pre-1995 machinery including the likes of Subaru Legacy, Mitsubishi Galant VR4 and Mazda 323 …
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Two tyres and a Jerrycan We completed our first rally in 2014 and there’s no doubt that we started small: we had two spare tyres and a can of fuel on the back of our ute! Three seasons on and our rally team has made huge progress. Our mantra has always been to keep on improving the car and the …
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The competitive route for the 2018 Otago Rally is taking shape, with a challenging 280 kilometre course set to challenge crews. The Dunedin based rally will again be the opening round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, and will include the world famous International Otago Classic Rally, which has been won for the past two years by Estonian Markko Martin. …
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Waiuku’s Dylan Thomson has put in a huge performance at the final round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, Rally New Zealand, with a top-ten outright result securing him three national titles. Thomson and co-driver Amy Hudson headed to the event in an intense battle for the NZRC two-wheel drive (for front-wheel drive cars up to …
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Ben Hunt has helped Subaru to win the Manufacturer’s Championship at the final round of the 2017 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC), Rally New Zealand, at the weekend. The Subaru brand ambassador and his co-driver Tony Rawstorn finished third overall for the season in the Subaru WRX STi after this sixth round, held around the Tauranga region. …
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