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Sebastian Ogier led throughout Day Two [macspeedfoto]

Ogier wins WRC Rally Japan on debut

The French pairing of Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia won September’s Rally Japan on their first outing to the Asian round of the FIA World Rally Championship while fellow Citroen driver Petter Solberg and Chris Patterson finished second with BP Ford’s Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila third.

Hayden Paddon finished 2nd PWRC driver in Japan1 (Photo: Gergely Makai, WRC Photos)

Paddon scores another PWRC podium in Japan

Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon and co-driver John Kennard finished second in the Production World Rally Championship class at Rally Japan in September.

Stephen Barker took the 2010 New Zealand Group N 2WD champion (Photo: Geoff Ridder)

Rising Star, Barker, takes 2WD championship

This year’s Rally New Zealand Rising Stars Scholarship winner Stephen Barker won the Group N (production class) two-wheel-drive class of the Vantage New Zealand Rally Championship.

Sebastien Loeb in action in Rally New Zealand 2010 (Photo: Geoff Ridder)

Potential for Loeb to win seventh WRC title in Japan

The 2010 FIA World Rally Championship heads to Japan for the tenth of this year’s 13 rounds, running from 10 to 12 September with top competitors facing the possibility that six-time WRC champion Sébastien Loeb may secure his seventh drivers’ championship title.

Paddon on his way to winning the 2010 International Rally of Whangarei

Another first as Paddon tackles WRC Japan

Hayden Paddon, the young rally driver from Geraldine in New Zealand’s South Island, lines up for his first run in the Japanese round of the World Rally Championship on 10 September.

Northland's Ben Jagger (20 y.o.) in action during Rally Otago. Credit: Geoff Ridder

Rally’s Rising Stars set for Wairarapa season finale

Whangarei’s Ben Jagger and Kerikeri resident Stephen Barker, two of Rally New Zealand’s Rising Stars, are geared up and ready to go for the final round of the Vantage New Zealand Rally Championship, Rally Wairarapa, on 11 and 12 September.

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