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Rally New Zealand’s Rising Stars award winners all have plenty to play for when the third round of the Vantage New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC), the International Rally of Whangarei, takes place from 2 to 4 July.
With the dust now well dampened after the 40th running of Rally New Zealand at the beginning of May, organising committee members with many years of experience running the international event said it was one of the very best events of this name ever run.
Leading from start to finish in the weekend’s Vodafone Rally de Portugal, Citroen Junior Team’s Sébastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia have made good their Rally New Zealand disappointment and secured their first victory of a FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) event.
After their long-haul journey to Rally New Zealand, which was the only Southern Hemisphere event on this year’s FIA World Rally Championship calendar, world rally teams head to Vodafone Rally de Portugal, running from 27 to 30 May.
Rally New Zealand’s trio of Rising Stars demonstrated their rallying talents during last week’s Rally New Zealand in front of a world-wide audience of around 50 million people.
BP Ford Focus driver Finland’s Jari-Matti Latvala won Rally New Zealand after a day of high drama in the four special stages near Raglan.
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