Fifth-place finish and solid points for Gilmour at Otago Rally
An Otago Rally victory will need to wait until another year for Dunedin’s Emma Gilmour, although she logged some solid points in the opening round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC), finishing fifth today. Her final result perhaps did not reflect...
Hunt takes final stage thriller at Otago Rally
Reigning national champion Ben Hunt has won a thrilling final stage battle at the Central Machine Hire Otago Rally to make the perfect start to the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship. Hunt came out on top of an epic three-way battle on Sunday...
Otago Rally set to open NZRC this weekend
The 2025 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship gets underway this week at the Central Machine Hire Otago Rally with the most open title race in recent history. WRC star Hayden Paddon will not contest all rounds of the championship for a second successive...
Gilmour dares to dream of NZRC title push
Dunedin local Emma Gilmour has renewed optimism heading into the 2025 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship season and feels she is long overdue for a good result at home. Gilmour has struggled with car reliability over the past few years, missed time due...
Stokes’ brotherly love goes out the window in 2025
Brotherly love will go out the window this year with Jack Stokes joining older brother Robbie in the Open 4WD class of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship. In a major off-season shake-up of the Stokes Motorsport Team, the two brothers will run...
Over 100 entries for 2025 Otago Rally
A bumper entry of over 100 cars will start next month’s Central Machine Hire Otago Rally, the opening round of the New Zealand Rally Championship. To be based in Dunedin from April 4-6, the rally has attracted an impressive 21 international teams from all around the...
Colin Clark returns to the Central Machine Hire Otago Rally
Internationally renowned rally journalist and presenter, Colin Clark, will return as a special guest of the Central Machine Hire Otago Rally in April. Known the world over as ‘The Voice of Rally’, the Scotsman has a large fan base on various forms of social media, and...
Zeal Jones to be final beneficiary of Kiwi Driver Fund
The Kiwi Driver Fund – a pivotal supporter in the career of Formula One driver Liam Lawson and many other rising New Zealand circuit racing stars – is set to end, but has one more driver to support. Rising rally star Zeal Jones will be...
Paddon to take WRC car through Kuri Bush
Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon is excited by a unique opportunity he’ll get to enjoy during the upcoming Otago Rally, running 4 to 6 April. Rally organisers have given Paddon permission to contest the iconic Kuri Bush stage in the Hyundai i20 WRC car in which...
Paddon locked in for Otago Classic Rally
New Zealand’s most successful rally driver, Hayden Paddon, will light up the 2025 Central Machine Hire Otago Rally aboard a special rally car. Ten years on from his record breaking outright win in an Escort BDA, Paddon will again drive the famed model when the rally...