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Hayden Paddon is the first official entrant for Rally New Zealand 2010. Credit: Lance Hastie

Paddon first official entrant for Rally New Zealand in 2010

Rally New Zealand has accepted the first official entry for this year’s World Rally Championship event in May from two-time New Zealand rally champion Hayden Paddon.

Frenchman Sebastién Loeb and Daniel Elena made a storming return to the top of the WRC standings following a strong win on the roads of Mexico in the weekend. Photo: McKlein

Loeb masters Mexico rally

Strategy and opportunity paved the way for Citroen’s Sebastién Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena to take the victory in Rally Mexico in the weekend, the second round of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship.

Richard Mason, with co-driving wife Sara, in action during Rally New Zealand in 2008. As a Rally New Zealand PWRC guest entrant, Mason has finished as high as third among the world’s best production rally car drivers. Credit Alan McDonald

Rally New Zealand invites applications for PWRC or SWRC wildcard entries

Two wildcard entries for Rally New Zealand in 2010 offer local rally drivers the chance to test their skills against top-level competition.

Citroen Total World Rally Team’s Sebastien Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena are out to reverse their WRC deficit as three-time defending champions of this weekend’s Rally Guanajuato Bicentenario in Mexico this weekend. Photo: McKlein.

Mexican altitude to test WRC stars

This weekend’s second round of the 2010 World Rally Championship (WRC) moves to the American continent where 22 stages covering 354 kilometres of gravel to altitudes above 2500 metres will test drivers in the Rally Guanajuato Bicentenario 4 – 7 March.

Statement regarding Rally New Zealand and the 2011 WRC calendar

A proposed 2011 FIA World Rally Championship calendar was presented by the WRC promoter, North One Sport, to the WRC Commission on 17 February.

Mikko Hirvonen at speed on his way to winning Rally Sweden

Hirvonen takes victory in Sweden

The weekend’s first round of the 2010 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) in Sweden saw Ford score the first win of the season with BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen taking a 42.3 second victory in the snowy Scandinavian forests.

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