Mosgiel's Chris Hey has a good reason to keep returning to the Ashley Forest rally sprint in North Canterbury - he has now won the 2WD section four years running.
Five Otago drivers will be pitting themselves against star-studded competition, including Production World Rally Champion Hayden Paddon, in this weekend's North Canterbury-based Ashley Forest Rally Sprint.
After narrowly dodging disaster twice over the three-day Rally Australia, New Zealand's Hayden Paddon became the first southern hemisphere driver to win a world rally title yesterday.
Hayden Paddon insists it is "business as usual" heading into Rally Australia, despite the possibility he could be sliding into the world rally history books on Sunday evening.
When Richard and Sara Mason won their third New Zealand Rally Championship title together yesterday after the final round in Hawkes Bay, there were three factors keeping their success feeling fresh.
Stage three was where the Catlins Coast Rally came unstitched for two leaders on Saturday and where a previous winner surged ahead for his second win.
The Catlins Coast Rally will see a former co-driver/driver pairing fighting it out in similar machinery for the first time in five years.
Competing at the International Rally of Whangarei this weekend are three sets of siblings sharing much more than the usual brother and sister banter.
Dunedin Mitsubishi drivers brought the Kaitangata Bob Scott Memorial Hillclimb's top three trophies home on Saturday, with Craig Molloy whisking away the title by the skin of his teeth.
As the Rally of Otago's 92 drivers head out into the dark tonight, event spokesman Roger Oakley regards the entry list as one the brightest in recent memory.
Dunedin's Emma Gilmour has come a long way since the first rally stage she watched on a dark Otago night.
There are no roads like home for Hayden Paddon, who returns to the national scene this weekend having successfully established himself offshore as a flying Kiwi.
Seven illumination-topped towers will light up the night for racers at Silverstream Raceway tonight as the Dunedin Kart Club hosts its drive-in-the-dark meeting.
The opening round of the South Island Endurance Series at Ruapuna Raceway, in Christchurch, is a mixture of first-times and tried-and-true formulas for the Otago drivers competing in the three rounds of three-hour races.
Drawing inspiration from time spent at her Wanaka home, Annabel Langbein has made an internationally-distributed TV series. She talks to Catherine Pattison.
In his first tarmac World Rally Championship event, Hayden Paddon has done New Zealand proud, finishing 19th overall and second Production World Rally Championship (PWRC) driver.
National rally championship leader Dean Sumner of Rotorua has had some valuable tips from fellow Mitsubishi driver Hayden Paddon leading into this weekend's penultimate round in Nelson.
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The quest for the Catlins Coast Rally title was left wide open after the top three seeds were sidelined with mechanical issues in the first three stages.
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