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Thread: Hayden Paddon
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3rd March 2014, 08:42 #11
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Re: Hayden Paddon
Originally Posted by focus206Stupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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3rd March 2014, 11:54 #12
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Re: Hayden Paddon
For sure it´s not an argument winning or not in homeland championship.
One of the most experienced guys I know with a lot of connections in the worldwide rallying once said that the only thing that matters is to start doing rallies abroad out in Europe at lowest possible cost (small car).
I do believe that is still the concept to adapt becoming a future WRC-star. Of course the talent in driving must be there as well."Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
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3rd March 2014, 23:50 #13
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Re: Hayden Paddon
Originally Posted by Mirek
You can't really compare that to the Asia Pacific market, which has very little ability to progress swiftly with good competition and at a reasonable cost. APRC is relatively expensive and a very limited range of competitors (last year rounds were won outright by a 2WD R1 car) and doesn't really have a well contested 2WD feeder category.
Australia I guess is an option, but only recently has their been a chance to progress in a well supported 2WD series? So realistically you have to spend some time here learning how to drive and succeed before you can show enough worth to be able to go further. There has been several from this region who have moved to competing internationally but Atkinson, Possum Bourne and Arai are the only ones who have succeeded to some degree at this for some time now, and they all date back to effectively a different generation in the WRC.
So only real option is to move to Europe and do the events you can afford for those of us from the bottom of the world. But you can't get support to do that without a money tree or sponsors, and to get sponsors you need results... So in this context I feel winning local/regional events is important for anyone from this part of the world.
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4th March 2014, 00:24 #14
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Re: Hayden Paddon
Atkinson has plenty of WRC starts.
"With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
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Re: Hayden Paddon
Originally Posted by MunkvyStupid is as stupid does. Forrest Gump
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4th March 2014, 23:41 #16
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Re: Hayden Paddon
Originally Posted by Rallyper
It was merely one part of a suggestion, that has been paraphrased by a few, that if you want to hire someone to win you're better to hire someone who has won everything they've entered rather than someone who has won nothing.
Those who win continually are likely to continue to do so, those who don't are likely to continue not to.Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to a paramedic.
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Re: Hayden Paddon
Originally Posted by sollitt"With that car, your brain can actually never keep up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI
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11th May 2015, 11:00 #18
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Last weekend saw the running of the Otago Rally and the Otago Classic Rally. This event is a round of the NZ Rally Championship with 292km of special stage distance.
The footage is in-car from Paddons BDG Historic Escort.
Hayden won the event outright.
it has been 25 years since a 2WD car has won a round of the NZ Championship
Enjoy the 15.05km Kuri Bush stage with Hayden
For those who are interested the Rallysafe unit is showing distance, elapsed time and road speed.
https://www.facebook.com/haydenpaddo...1092926926498/
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19th September 2015, 12:43 #19
I wanted to resurrect this thread because I've read this article about Paddon's coaching session at Le Mans Circuit.
http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/septe...3--12-12-.html
But especially because this guy is in my opinion the real surprise of this season.
He is the only one that showed potential and in the meantime achieve some great results and improvements compared to last year.
He seems to me he is also a very clever guy with a cool head. He is not that kind of guy that wants all and soon. He is ambituous but smart enough not to ruin everything with haste to reach the level he wants to be.
And I also like all the works he is doing with his coaching sessions on tarmac and I am sure he will improve in this surface as well.
I think he should also improve his pacenote system which seems to me too much simplistic but I think he has the right mentality to be one or maybe the only interesting prospect in WRC at the moment.
The other could be Tanak but Paddon seems to me more clever and mature, even if in raw speed Tanak is a bit better in my opinion.
What do you think about?
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19th September 2015, 13:08 #20
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+1 Paddon is a future star in WRC.
"Reis vas pät pat kaar vas kut"
Tommi Mäkinen, back in the years...
I think we saw this one coming, didn't we?
F1 Guru Adrian Newey leave Redbull