The iconic Rally New Zealand will return to the FIA World Rally Championship next year after an eight year hiatus. Rally New Zealand officials are thrilled after receiving the news from WRC Promoter which has released the global calendar for the 2020 season. The four-day event will be based in Auckland from 3 to 6 September 2020, and has the …
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MotorSport New Zealand’s 2019-20 NZ Hillclimb Championship gets underway on 5 October with the first round jointly hosted by the Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa Car Clubs across two weekends. The NZ Hillclimb Championship is one of MotorSport NZ’s longest-contested titles, dating back to 1956. Nowadays the NZ Hillclimb Championship forms part of the ClubSport discipline within MotorSport NZ’s competitive activities. …
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The annual Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally is 25 this year and the man behind it, Peter Martin of the Ultimate Rally Group, says it has never been easier to enter the event than in its anniversary year. This year the annual five-day event, which Martin markets as ‘The Ultimate Road Race,’ starts in Taupo on Tuesday October 29 …
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Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon and his Paddon Rallysport team has shattered the Ashley Forest Rallysprint record with a blistering time of 52.77 seconds in the Hyundai AP4++ to win the high-profile hillclimb event. The 1.7-km North Canterbury hillclimb was first run in 1979 by Canterbury’s RATEC Motorsport Club and attracts an array of local, national and international competitors. The …
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We have been publishing a printed rally magazine for nearly three years now. We have unfortunately reached a point we can’t seem to get past, and we need some help to move forwards. We are incredibly grateful for every single subscriber and advertiser and contributor that we currently have, but we are still coming up short with rising costs etc. …
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Hayden Paddon and John Kennard are set to contest two FIA World Rally Championship events before the end of the year – piloting the all-new Ford Fiesta R5 MkII at Wales Rally GB and returning to the wheel of the EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRC at Rally Australia. As one of the sport’s most popular competitors, the rallying community were devastated …
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