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Fans gather for Rally NZ promo at SKYCITY

Four days out from the start of the 40th running of Rally New Zealand, fans swarmed to SKYCITY Auckland to see their World Rally Championship heroes.

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Auckland Harbour delights for WRC drivers

Six-time world rally champion Sébastien Loeb and fellow competitors in the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship, who are contesting Rally New Zealand this week, took a few hours to enjoy sailing on Auckland Harbour and bungy-jumping off the Auckland Harbour Bridge. 

Two-time New Zealand rally champion Hayden Paddon (centre), from Geraldine, with fellow Production World Rally Championship competitors in this week’s Rally New Zealand Gianluca Linari (left) from Italy and Nicholai Georgiou (right) from Great Britain.

Production WRC drivers scale Auckland landmark

Competitors in the production car classes of Rally New Zealand, which starts on Thursday 6 May, enjoyed the chance to scale the Auckland Harbour Bridge during one of their first days in New Zealand.

New Zealand gravel rush excites Ford's Finnish drivers

BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team will tackle the longest round of the FIA World Rally Championship for almost six years when it makes the arduous journey from Britain to New Zealand next week.  Organisers of Rally New Zealand (6 - 9 May) have fully embraced new-for-2010 rules to increase the competitive distance in the North Island to just under 400km, the most since Rally Deutschland in August 2004.

Ford Fiesta S2000 Crews Transported to New Zealand

The 40th edition of Rally New Zealand will see four Ford Fiesta Super 2000s make their way to the southern hemisphere for the fifth round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC).  Xevi Pons has already won Super World Rally Championship (SWRC) rounds in both Sweden and Mexico earlier this year and his competitors will have to push hard to prevent the Spaniard from winning his third consecutive victory out in New Zealand.

Former New Zealand rally champions like Palmerston North’s Geof Argyle will help celebrate the 40th running of Rally New Zealand when it starts in Auckland on Thursday 6 May, 2010. Argyle is seen in action in 2003. Credit: Lance Hastie

Rally New Zealand celebrates 40 years in 2010

The 2010 running of Rally New Zealand will be the event’s 40th year and organisers are asking Kiwi rally fans to help celebrate the event’s rich history.

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