Rally New Zealand 2012

[J4MIE]

Rally Guide 1 has been released.

Competitors - Rally New Zealand

I was desperately hoping to be going this year but am having to give it a miss
I cling to the hope that it will go back to running every year but guess it's unlikely to do so anytime soon

[6789]

Awesome! I'll be there from the Sunday before, its an awesome rally J4MIE, you will have to do it one day

If anyone finds out where the PWRC testing for Monday is can they please let me know

[J4MIE]

Awesome! I'll be there from the Sunday before, its an awesome rally J4MIE, you will have to do it one day

It's top of my list... Can't make it this year it's just a wee bit soon for my finances. I will be at the Silver Fern in November though, WRC will have to wait until 2014

[WRCfan]

Will be going. Looking forward to seeing the rally again. Alternating years are a pain in the a** but can't be helped. Roll on rally time!

[Camelopard]

I've booked my flights, but haven't organised anything else yet.

[6789]

Will be going. Looking forward to seeing the rally again. Alternating years are a pain in the a** but can't be helped. Roll on rally time!

I would rather NZ every year or Aus and NZ 2 weeks apart

[cosmicpanda]

That's an interesting route. Shame they've not yet published an itinerary so we can see the distance. I also think it's a shame that we won't be seeing the Whaanga Coast on the final day - it's provided some drama in the past few years. I'm curious to see how well the stages near Warkworth turn out.

Girl's High School and Mititai haven't been run in the WRC for a while - juwra has Mititai last being used in 2002, and if they've used Girl's High School Rd before it was under a different name or much further back in time. The international rally of Whangarei has used it in the past, and from what I saw of it when I spectated there it's a good stage. I recall that the spot we arrived at wasn't so good, but after some hiking through the paddocks and falling down a small cliff (yikes) we found a nice hairpin with a good view. Mititai has some fantastic spectator spots.

[rallyfiend]

That's an interesting route. Shame they've not yet published an itinerary so we can see the distance. I also think it's a shame that we won't be seeing the Whaanga Coast on the final day - it's provided some drama in the past few years. I'm curious to see how well the stages near Warkworth turn out.

Total Distance: 1542.18km No. of Stages: 22
Stage Distance: 420.64km Stage Surface: Tarmac & Gravel
Longest Stage: SS10/14 Mititai 32.88km Shortest Stage: SS18/19 Auckland Domain 3.00km

[6789]

Hopefully Shakedown isn't at the Auckland Domain

[Rally Hokkaido]

Hopefully Shakedown isn't at the Auckland Domain

yes, using a mickey mouse tarmac stage as qualifying stage for a (mostly) gravel rally would be ......ah...unusual