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Round Two of the 2025 Australian Rally Championship. Forest Rally, Western Australia ( on the ball bearing gravel of the old WRC event)
Saturday Heat one - 1 Paddon - Hyundai - Hyundai Rally2 2 Scott Pedder - Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 3 Lewis Bates - Toyota Yaris Rally2
Sunday Heat two 1 Paddon - Hyundai Rally2 2 Harry Bates - Toyota Yaris Rally2 3 Tom Kristensson - Skoda Fabia R5 (close fought heat for the top 3)Bates 5.4 seconds behind Paddon, TK 6.7 seconds behind Paddon.
round 2 of the new zealand championship - top class 4wd highlights
as always they do a good job introducing the drivers and building the story of the weekend
cant go wrong. highlights for the other classes also on their yt page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU8Q9Se6gtY
Longer distance Australian trial rally events have a few new editions in coming years.
The last day of the 2025 'Great Inland Endurance Trial' run over ten days and 5000km, ends today. Small entry. A few competitors have been posting.
The next is in 2027. There is a 50 year anniversary ' round australia' event planned for 2029 as a "Reliability Retrial".
https://www.v8sleuth.com.au/legendar...to-the-forest/
https://www.facebook.com/reliabilityretrial29
NZRC Round 3 Canterbury Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcavQUgHRYc
After a quiet winter the NZ Rally Championship returned to the Coromandel where the rally was last held in 2019.
A one day rally was held on Saturday 23rd August, 2025.
NZRC Round 4 - Dayle ITM Gold Rush Rally Coromandel Highlights 44 minutes.
https://youtu.be/4qCtN0z4dpY?si=4sWIZNO4TkLo4B47
5th Round was run on Satuday 11th October and the final is in November (7-9th) at Whangarei.
NZ Targa 2025 is being run 15-19th October, 2025. The 30th anniversary event has been hampered by landslides, floods and torrential rain the day before the event commenced, which have cut off roads.
1 stage cancelled on Wednesday 15th, 4 stages cancelled on Thursday 16th, could be 4 again on Friday.
https://youtu.be/CZGNtnTxQBE?si=WlqigTDcYlPUxrRQ (news reel with water and landslides)
Saturday was a better day with all 7 stages being run to varying degrees.
Action started before the first stage with the overnight 3rd placed car's driver not being able to find the keys for the car #640 Porsche, before the start. The keys were located when the field had moved off.
Later this may have unfortunately contributed to the car #640 leaving the road 2/3rds of the way into the day's first stage. Fortunately, the crew was ok.
Two other experienced competitors went off, one in the days' 3rd stage and another in the 6th stage. Both crew reported ok.
The 7th stage was interrupted near the end after 2/3rds of the competitive field had been through.
Sunday's 7 stages have been run with a few final day dropouts.
This year's 2025 Targa NZ was won by the Australian crew of Paul Dowie and John Allen in a Porsche GT3 RS (5 hours six minutes & 5.5 seconds). They were a minute clear (1.16.3) clear of Dave Rogers & Shane Reynolds in a Targa spec Mitsubishi Evo X. Third went to the NZ veterans Charlie Evans & Carol Liston - RX7.
and paddon leading the aussie championship! if he wins it i wonder what will he plan for 2026! america?
Bay of Plenty Round of the 2025 NZRC highlights video. A close battle between the regular contenders at the top. Darker than expected by most competitors on the opening stage followed by dust on the next stage. A significant distance of the event was run in the Matahina Forest, that was last used 20 years ago in the International Rally of Rotorua era.
https://youtu.be/dGjpvC6tSug?si=aXjTDFBlbChcjyUI
NZRC podium for the rally was R Stokes, B Hunt and J Stokes.
Paddon was tyre testing during the overall event and had the lowest time followed by Mike Young in 2nd.
tnx! i checked yesterday for rd 5 highlights, there was nothing yet, i thought "maybe in november" haha nice
nzrc production is really good, i wish erc & rally america were all more like that on the highlights package.
idk how they get the money to do that, since its a small championship, but congrats on them. years following this series like that. shame the aussie championship is not putting out their good highlights anymore too =/
Final round of the 2025 NZRC this week. 7th -9th November. The Vertex Oil International Rally of Whangarei will be held over 2 days and 18 stages. Day 1 - Saturday 8th,a long day run west and south west further out of Whangarei are 10 stages. 5 gravel road stages (3 repeated) and a super special (Pohe Island) run and repeated in the evening. Day 2 - Sunday 9th is run south west but closer to Whangarei. 8 stages which are 4 gravel road stages repeated.
If these stages are like some of the stages used in the past for local rallies & international rallies, this could be a memorable event.
https://www.rallywhangarei.co.nz/
Changes before Rally of Whangarei. Robbie Stokes had his result at Bay of Plenty changed to excluded. Ben Hunt has a significant points lead prior to Whangarei.
https://nzrallychamps.co.nz/stokes-e...bay-of-plenty/
Rally of Whangarei stage description & history and points table up date for the NZRC across the categories.
Interesting note in the article that next year's Otago Rally will be the 50th anniversary event.
https://nzrallychamps.co.nz/by-the-n...-of-whangarei/