Paddon takes aim at three championship titles
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon has set himself a fresh goal for 2020: to win three rally championship titles. Paddon’s goals form a key aspect of Hyundai New Zealand’s 2020 motorsport programme when he lines up in his Hyundai i20 AP4 to contest four rounds of...
Paddon: ‘I’m not giving up’
New Zealand’s most successful rally driver Hayden Paddon has put a ‘rain-check’ on his WRC career and is taking a fresh focus on building his own New Zealand-based team to take into international competition by 2025. Keeping their minds open to various possibilities, Paddon and...
Paddon Rallysport launches Nevis hillclimb
Hayden Paddon and Paddon Rallysport Group have launched a brand-new motorsport event called the Ben Nevis Station Golden 1200 Hillclimb which will run for the first time in March 2020 in the spectacular Nevis region of Central Otago. The Golden 1200 Hillclimb is intended to...
Paddon shatters Ashley Forest hillclimb record to take win
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...
Mission accomplished with Paddon’s Pacific Cup win
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon has won the FIA Pacific Rally Cup – part of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) – at the Eureka Rush Rally in Victoria, Australia on 26 August. The Eureka Rally was the final event of four which counted for...
Paddon Rallysport Group develops world-first electric rally car with Hyundai New Zealand
The multi-championship winning rally team, Paddon Rallysport, has revealed they are undertaking a ground-breaking new project – the design, development and construction of the world’s first electric rally car that will be capable of running full length rallies. Headed by New Zealand’s most successful rally driver,...
Paddon Rallysport announces unique YES Power partnership
Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon has confirmed a significant new partnership for Paddon Rallysport with YES Power. A multi-year deal has been signed between Cromwell-based Paddon Rallysport and YES Power, a relative newcomer in the New Zealand retail electricity market. Paddon is delighted to confirm the partnership...
Paddon ready for WRC return in Finland
New Zealand rally star Hayden Paddon returns to the top level of world rallying with the announcement that he will drive the third M-Sport Fiesta WRC car at Rally Finland in August. With John Kennard returning as his co-driver, Paddon is understandably delighted to have this...
Paddon going all out at South Canterbury
Hyundai rally driver Hayden Paddon will be going all out at this Saturday’s one-day South Canterbury Rally with Samantha Gray, another Timaru local, back in the co-driver’s seat of the Hyundai i20 AP4. Paddon is originally from Geraldine so this is his ‘home’ rally and one...
Paddon launches ‘Driven’ documentary series
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon has launched a behind-the-scenes documentary series about his New Zealand-based rally team Paddon Rallysport. The four-part documentary series – with part one launched on 15 May – uses the same name, Driven, as Paddon’s autobiography being published by Penguin Random House...