Former NZ Champion and Daughter have successful Wyndham Rally
A perusal of the seeding list for the 2025 Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally revealed a very interesting entry at twenty-five, that of Dean Sumner. Sumner was the New Zealand Rally Champion back in 2010, the pinnacle of what was a very successful career that...
Entries for Dayle ITM Goldrush Rally Coromandel confirmed
A total of 50 entries overall and 21 NZRC competitors will tackle the Dayle ITM Goldrush Rally Coromandel when it returns to the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship later this month. After five seasons away, the iconic tight and twisty gravel roads of...
Macdonald wins Wyndham Rally and takes lead in Mainland Rally Championship
Winning the fourth and penultimate round of the 2025 Mainland Rally Championship has propelled Caleb Macdonald into the overall lead and three-points clear of Robbie Stokes. Macdonald and Australian co-driver Larisa Biggar (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo6) won four of the six Special Stages of...
Quality field for Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally
In 2023 the Eastern Southland Car Club resurrected the Wyndham Rally, an event they had previously organised from 1977 to 1998. In doing so the club paid tribute to South Island rally legend Barry Robinson who passed away in March 2022. Robinson was a popular...
First rally winner owes much to Eastern Southland Car Club
The 2025 Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally on Saturday 2 August marks 50 years of rallying for the Eastern Southland Car Club. Their first rally was the 1975 Gore Rally, the first Special Stage rally ever held south of Christchurch. The winner of that event...
Father & Son Rally Challenge champs back for Wyndham
The winners of the inaugural Barry Robinson Memorial Rally in 2023, father and son combination Andrew and Hayden Graves of Gore, return this year as top seeds in the rally scheduled for Saturday 2 August. They also arrive at the event as the current New...
A Rally in a cardboard box
As the Eastern Southland Car Club prepare for the Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally on Saturday 2 August it will mark 50 years of rallying for the club and for just over half of that storied history Craig Jessop has been working behind the scenes...
Ayson back with new car for Wyndham Rally
Gore rally driver Derek Ayson contested the last two Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally’s in a Ford Fiesta Proto owned by good mate David Kirk while his latest rally car, an Opel Manta, was being built. This year he will get to drive the Opel...
Who are the NZRC’s fastest track competitors?
Not surprisingly championship rivals Ben Hunt and Robbie Stokes are the kings of tarmac tracks so far in the 2025 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship but the chasing pack makes for interesting reading. Some names you might not expect to be as high...
50 Years of Rally memories
When the Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally takes place on Saturday 2 August it will not only celebrate the legacy of Robinson, an iconic rally driver from the area, but it will also mark 50 years of rallying for the Eastern Southland Car Club who...