Finely-judged third for Paddon in Turkey
Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon has secured his first podium finish of the 2018 World Rally Championship season in Turkey. With his British co-driver Seb Marshall, Paddon stuck to their plan of being consistently fast and clean to finish Rally Turkey with a strong result...
Holder and Farmer ready for Turkish challenge
New Zealanders Dave Holder and Jason Farmer line up for their final FIA Junior World Rally Championship event of the season with this week’s Rally Turkey promising the challenges of rough gravel stages and high in-car temperatures. The 13-19 September running of Rally Turkey marks its...
Otago and Whangarei to open 2019 NZRC in style
The dates for the first two rounds of the 2019 New Zealand Rally Championship have been announced, with the Otago Rally and the Rally of Whangarei to once again open the season. The series heads to Dunedin for the championship's southernmost round from April 12 to...
Gilmour has a podium in her sights for Coromandel
A podium finish is at the forefront of Emma Gilmour’s goals for the fifth round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship at the Coromandel Peninsula this weekend. The Dunedin rally driver has come tantalisingly close, with two fourth places to her name...
Awards presented as part of 50th celebration of New Zealand rallying
Seventeen people have been recognised for their contributions to New Zealand rally sport during the Motorsport New Zealand 50th anniversary of rallying celebratory event which took place in Hamilton overnight. Fifty years ago, in 1967, the Hamilton Car Club ran a competitive motorsport event called the...
Dinner to commemorate 50 years of New Zealand rallying
Fifty years ago, the Hamilton Car Club ran a competitive motorsport event which is now regarded as the first rally in New Zealand. The May 1967 event was called the Rally of the Pines and was won by club member Bill Purvis in a 1951 Morris...