Repco was announced as naming rights sponsor Rally New Zealand 2022 today. Location of harborside service park was revealed as Wynyard Quarter in downtown Auckland. Link to promo video released today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkCXnWkOrgo
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Repco was announced as naming rights sponsor Rally New Zealand 2022 today. Location of harborside service park was revealed as Wynyard Quarter in downtown Auckland. Link to promo video released today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkCXnWkOrgo
Itinerary is rumored to include the stage that Hyundai had their first ever WRC stage win on.
McLaren Extreme E driver confirms she will compete in Rally NZ despite just a few days turnaround after the electric off road series revised calendar event in Chile. https://talkmotorsport.co.nz/rally/g...lendar-change/
The detailed preparations for WRC return to NZ continue.
Rapid response teams for Rally NZ participated in advanced gravel roads driving skills training this week. They were tutored by an experienced rally driver.
How hard is it to delete every bot with that Rok on it's name?
Rally New Zealand will have representatives attending Rally Portugal this week meeting with teams and drivers interested in competing in NZ
Episode 1 of "Pacenotes the Road to Repco Rally New Zealand"
This is the first of a fortnightly show in NZ helping build public interest as we prepare to host WRC again. It covers rally related content at various levels and is not limited to just WRC.
https://garage.repco.co.nz/pacenotes...y-new-zealand/
The purpose built driver challenging, spectator friendly, Jacks Ridge is expected to be the Power Stage of 2022 Repco Rally New Zealand. The first release of spectator Gold passes sold out quickly. Jacks Ridge will have limited capacity. A gold pass includes entry to Jacks Ridge. The next release of Gold Passes will happen in early June, I expect they will sell out in days.
This is Jacks Ridge 18 months ago. A lot of development of the roads has happened since then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnw3mKwTukg
After Estonia I’ve been afraid of purpose built power stages but this one didn’t look that bad
Expect a long day on Friday with 3 repeated Waikato area stages and just a midday tyre change zone. Due to time differences fans in Europe and UK will be watching live rally action on WRCplus on a Thursday evening. The day will likely conclude with an evening Super Special back on the Auckland City water front.
The 3 Friday stages of Repco Rally New Zealand 2022 will all be longer than Rally Sardegna's longest stage.
Heads up for people coming to NZ for the rally this year, to be aware of the personal safety/ property security issues in many parts of NZ that currently exist.
One medical car park had 3 out 6 staff cars stolen last weekend. Car break-ins are common.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...-auckland.html
Episode 2 of "Pacenotes the Road to Repco Rally New Zealand" is now online
It includes strong clues about Friday itinerary
https://garage.repco.co.nz/pacenotes...y-new-zealand/
RG1 has been published.
Confirms early start of the Friday with mid day tyre fitting zone in Raglan.
Shakedown on Thursday will be on same road as was used for SD in 2012
Here is a taster of SD road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPR2xO8uwY
A lot of rallying in NZ is on fast flowing cambered public roads. NZ also has tighter forestry stages including some that are within easy touring distance of service park. It is good to have variety.
Michčle Mouton recently visited New Zealand in her role as FIA safety representative in preparation for the WRC Rally New Zealand. Purpose of trip was to check safety preparations of stages and spectator areas. The visit brings us one step closer to full itinerary being released
It's a trifecta.
Ford was today announced as an Elite sponsor of Rally New Zealand. Hyundai and Toyota were previously announced as elite sponsors.
Gold day pass tickets for Jacks Ridge Power Stage have sold out. Less than 100 full week gold passes remain. Going to be some disappointed people who miss out on tickets.
So no possibilities to visit stages without those passes? Or Gold passes maybe are luxury versions?
Thanks KiwiWRCFan for all your updates. I don't have any news to contribute but I like reading about my old home rally. Glad to see it back in the WRC.
Auckland Domain has been confirmed as opening Super Special Stage for Rally NZ.
This is great news for fans as it will mean very larger crowds are possible for SSS1.
Michelle Mouton has been complimentary on the Andrew Hawkeswood built Jacks Ridge power stage https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motors...to-new-zealand
Riverhead forest used to regularly have rally stages. Hearing rumors Riverhead could appear on Rally New Zealand itinerary first time since 1996.
If rumor is true it is good news from two perspectives.
1 it adds variety to type of roads used.
2 it is easily accessible for residents of Auckland City.
Looking forward to seeing 2022 Repco Rally New Zealand itinerary announced in next few days
Can't wait to write about these stages!
Still no regs? Shouldn't they suppose to be released one week ago?
Awfully short saturday. Longest travel to the shortest event.
2022 WRC Rounds - stage distance/ Total route distance and percentage stage/ total distance driven.
Monte 296.63 km 1511.47 km 19.6 %
Sweden 305.85km 1223.22 25%
Croatia 291.84 1642.18 km 17.8%
Portugal 338.34 km / 1522.89 km 22.2%
Sardegna 307.91 km/ 1303.38 km 23.6%
Kenya 359.93 km / 1223.79 km 29.4%
Estonia 313.84 km / 1486.77 km 21.1%
Finland 322.61 km/ 1427.47 km 22.6 %
Belgium
NZ - planned 276.44 km / 1374.47 km 20.1%
(New Zealand Rally Championship rounds Otago 276.10 km / 802 km 34.4% and Whangarei 252.96 km / 710.86 km 35.6%)
Almost better to hold a NZ championship round for route efficiency, the NZ WRC round on the Friday morning is leaving town an hour or more too late. If the wrc leaves town at that time potentially get caught in a traffic jam/ accident slow up etc. They should reverse order the field and get going at 4 am, even if the down the order have to wait somewhere out of town longer)
https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/what-...aux-situation/
Interesting part about Bertelli in M-Sport 4th car in NZ; would mean there will be 4 cars in the shipment so maybe one available for Japan (except if Bertelli does it also but also some rumors about Serderidis in Japan)
Also interesting to see how M-Sport will handle that logistically with at least 8 cars at the same moment (4 in the Pacific + 4 in Catalunya at least normally), maybe even 9 with some rumors about Serderidis also in Catalunya (in addition to Acropolis and Japan).
Wouldn’t be surprised if there is some other benching of Breen or Fourmaux by the end of the year to save parts and money.
Other option is to do the 3 last rallies with the same 4 cars (M-Sport already did that with America-Europa-America combo in the past) with multiple shipments but sounds much more complicated with Pacific rallies IMO; all the more that the logistics costs are really high currently.
As far as I know the teams have one set of ‘long haul’ kit they ship to these events. This was the reason given that the Safari couldn’t run around its traditional Easter date as it was too close to Argentina.
Yes, and that's why you can't run for example Mexico and Argentina back to back.
One of the biggest logistical challenges in the recent years has been from Estonia to Turkey with a two-week gap (essentially one week for packing, traveling and unpacking). And IIRC Ypres was supposed to be a third event with a two-week gap but they postponed that (and eventually cancelled)