M-Sport is by no means a stranger to building high-performance machinery with a proven and successful track record, the Ford Fiesta WRC and Bentley Continental GT3 to name but a few recent examples. The Panda 4×4 project presented an altogether different challenge though; a bespoke vehicle build where the only rulebook to adhere to was the client’s brief. The brief …
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Timaru’s Cate Paddon has been selected as the New Zealand participant in the first trans-Tasman exchange for female motorsport officials. Paddon, cousin of New Zealand’s world rally star Hayden Paddon, heads to the Castrol Gold Coast 600 in October this year, before an Australian official heads to New Zealand to volunteer at the ITM Auckland SuperSprint two weeks later. The …
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Sporting an attitude of keep-your-head-down and keep-on-working-and-learning, Kiwi rally stars Hayden Paddon and co-driver John Kennard are one of three Hyundai Motorsport crews heading to the FIA World Rally Championship’s penultimate round, Rally Spain, next week. The 24 to 26 October running of RallyRACC-Rally de Espana will see Paddon and Kennard contest the event for the fourth time, a fact …
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Fifty-five drivers from six different countries driving fourteen different marques ranging from Skoda to BMW will converge on the South Island of New Zealand next month for the 2014 epay Silver Fern Rally. Drivers will come from New Zealand, England, Australia, Scotland, Kenya and Ireland with almost one third of the entries coming from overseas. The event consists of the …
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New Zealand rally driver, Michael Young, managed to wrap up the 2014 two-wheel-drive Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) title plus take the lead in the production cup title at the penultimate APRC round held in Japan over the weekend. Young, joined by co-driver Malcolm Read, said he’s really happy with the result in Japan but adds the final round in …
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The Asia Pacific Rally Championship’s (APRC) only New Zealand driver, Michael Young, is chasing down valuable APRC points in Japan this weekend, as he aims to claim three championship titles at the penultimate round in Hokkaido. Young, originally from Opotiki took out three APRC titles last year and speaking from the service park in Obihiro city, said he’s working on …
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