Hunt pips Barker to lead in Whangarei
Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship leader Ben Hunt passed Stephen Barker in the penultimate stage of Saturday’s action at International Rally of Whangarei to claim day honours. The Subaru driver, and co-driver Tony Rawstorn, holds an overnight lead of 6.4 seconds from Mitsubishi...
Kiwi stars to chase YouTube sensation in Whangarei
Leading Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship combatants will test themselves against former WRC star and YouTube sensation Ken Block at this weekend’s International Rally of Whangarei. American Block will contest the two-day event in his Hoonigan Racing Ford Escort Cosworth having previously won...
Speed Works publishes provisional 2019-2020 calendar
Speed Works Events has released its provisional 2019-2020 MotorSport NZ Championship calendar and the big news is the potential return of international single seaters to arguably the country's most iconic race track. The Castrol Toyota Racing Series, which will once again run its five back-to-back rounds...
Tough start for Gilmour in NZRC opener at Otago
With any car rebuild there will be teething problems and Emma Gilmour experienced her fair share of them at her home event, the Drivesouth Rally of Otago at the weekend. Issues both days of the 15-stage Dunedin-based event in her fully-refurbished Vantage Windows and Doors Suzuki Swift...
Hendl-Cox seals NZ Formula First Championship
After a season of close, exciting and dynamic racing, Whakatane’s Reece Hendl-Cox, 19, has won the 2018/19 Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship. The final round of the season took place at the weekend at Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in Taupo. It was another weekend of...
Favourites set record pace to win 2019 Otago Rally
Hyundai New Zealand star, Hayden Paddon, has completed a dominant weekend at the Otago Rally, winning all but one stage to take victory by over nine minutes. Not registered for the New Zealand Rally Championship, Paddon returned to New Zealand this weekend with the goal of...
Hunt storms home to win in Otago
Ben Hunt bettered Dylan Turner across Sunday’s seven stages to claim victory in the opening round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship in Otago. Subaru driver Hunt demolished Turner’s 11.5 second overnight lead on the opening stage of Sunday morning and never...
Turner takes Saturday honours at Rally Otago
Audi driver Dylan Turner leads the opening Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship event in Otago overnight after a spectacular opening day of action south of Dunedin. The veteran Pukekohe-based driver overcame a turbo hose issue on the second stage of Rally Otago to...
Drivesouth Rally of Otago marks tenth season of Hunt and Rawstorn rallying together
Ben Hunt and co-driver Tony Rawstorn will enter their tenth season of rallying together when they fire up Hunt’s Subaru WRX STI on the start line of the Drivesouth Rally of Otago on Saturday. Nine years ago, the two friends paired up for the first time,...
Hugely competitive 2019 NZRC season opens at Otago
The most open and competitive Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship in recent history begins on the super-fast roads in Otago this weekend with any one of about 10 drivers staking a claim to become national champion this season. Subaru driver Ben Hunt finished...