Rally News

Matthew Robinson and co-driver Sam Collis (Ford Escort Mk 2) have retained their early 2018 NZ Silver Fern Rally lead on the second day of competition in the King Country and north-east Taranaki today. The British pair again won the majority of stages (4 of the 7 completed) and finished second in two of the other three to arrive in …

British pair Matthew Robinson and Sam Collis (Ford Escort Mk 2) have taken an early lead in this year’s NZ Silver Fern Rally after an eventful – and for Robinson very tiring – first day in the Waikato today. “I’ve never been through stages so twisty in my life,” said the man who won four of the six stages and …

New Zealander Hayden Paddon aimed to push hard at this week’s final round of the FIA World Rally Championship in Australia and, with co-driver Seb Marshall alongside, he did – scoring a hard-fought second place. In what was a dramatic final day of the season near the coastal New South Wales town of Coffs Harbour, fans followed the lead changes …

New Zealander Hayden Paddon and his British co-driver Seb Marshall will be pushing hard at this week’s final round of the FIA World Rally Championship in Australia, striving to end the season on a good note. “After a podium finish here last year, it would be good at a minimum to repeat that,” says Paddon of the 15-18 November event …

The next edition of A Little Bit Sideways magazine (edition #8) is being printed right now and will be ready for posting middle of next week.  It is being released early as it will have all you need to know about the coming Silver Fern rally, including all updated stage maps and complete itinerary. Here are some of the other …

It was always going to be a busy year but that turned out to be a bit of an understatement!  It has certainly been a challenge working fulltime in my business specialising in motorsport engineering and also driving in the NZRC for the season. There was a lot of added pressure being involved with other race teams (particularly Hayden Paddon’s …