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Rally New Zealand features at Pukekohe’s opening race meeting

This weekend’s opening round of the MotorSport New Zealand summer championship series will feature some top-class rally cars and Rally New Zealand 2010 alongside the circuit racers.

This season the premier circuit racing series, which includes the New Zealand V8 touring cars, Porsche GT3 Cup cars and the Suzuki Swift Sports Cup, includes a new entertainment complex called the ‘downtown village’ and among the cafés, bars and merchandise outlets set up for racing fans to enjoy will be the team from Rally New Zealand.

Former Rally New Zealand winner Ingvar Carlsson has passed away

Ingvar Carlsson 1947-2009

Swedish rally legend Ingvar Carlsson, the winner of the 1989 Rally New Zealand, has died recently after a short illness at the age of 62.

Loeb’s emotions overflow with Rally GB victory

Frenchman Sébastien Loeb has taken his sixth consecutive World Rally Championship drivers’ title with his victory in the year’s final WRC round in Wales.

Going into Wales Rally GB, Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen had a one point lead over Loeb who trailed the Finnish driver for the latter part of the 12-round championship season. But Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena took a slender but early lead in the three-day Rally Great Britain competition in their Citroen C4 and eventually finished one minute, six seconds clear of Hirvonen after 348 km of competition.

Entries about to close for Rally's Rising Stars Scholarship

Potential entrants wishing to compete for the richest prize in New Zealand Rallying now have less than a week to get their entries in for the 2010 Rally New Zealand Rising Stars Scholarship.

Successful finish for Tapper in WRC

South Auckland rally driver Mark Tapper has topped off the weekend’s final round of the 2009 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) by coming home as the second Pirelli Star Driver in Wales Rally GB.

The rally was the final event for 28-year-old Tapper and his Christchurch  based co-driver Jeff Judd as one of the inaugural group of Pirelli Star Drivers. The pair bought their Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X through 348km of wet, muddy Welsh roads to finish second among the Pirelli competitors and 17th outright behind the World Rally Cars.

Rally GB hosts one-point WRC fight

This weekend’s final round of the 2009 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) will be a title fight between leader Mikko Hirvonen (Ford) and Sebastién Loeb (Citroen) with a solitary point separating the pair in the WRC drivers’ championship standings.

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