Australian / New Zealand 2025 Championships

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ARC - Australian Rally Championship calendar:
Round 1 – March 21-23 – Rally of Canberra
Round 2 – May 23-25 – Forest Rally
Round 3 – July 4-6 – Rally Queensland
Round 4 – August 10-8 – Gippsland Rally
Round 5 – October 3-5 – Adelaide Hills Rally
Round 6 – November 7-9 – Rally Tasmania

NZRC - New Zealand Rally Championship Calendar:
Rd 1: Otago Rally April 4-6
Rd 2: South Canterbury Rally May 10
Rd 3: Canterbury Rally June 1
Rd 4: Rally Coromandel August 23
Rd 5: Rally Bay of Plenty October 11
Rd 6: International Rally of Whangarei November 7-9


the Australian Championship is under new management and it was rebranded as "ARC".
- here the little video they released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMFtMk7qJ_o

both championships offer some live stages, live interviews and decent highlights on their youtube pages! you can watch the '24 rounds during december while we wait for Monte Carlo! hehe

- ARC: https://www.youtube.com/@arcrally/videos
- NZRC: https://www.youtube.com/@NewZealandR...ionship/videos

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The 2025 NZRC starts with the Otago Rally & combined Classic rally over two days. Following the pattern of 2024 with 3 South Island events, with a break and then three North Island rallies. Southland is replaced by Canterbury which can be frosty in June. Likewise the Day Breaker rally, Manawatu has been replaced by Rally Coromandel.(I'm sure some competitors prefer Day Breaker to Coromandel, but there might be less sheep on the road further north) The season ends the same way as 2024 with Bay Of Plenty followed by Whangarei.

2025 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship Calendar:

Rd 1: Otago Rally April 4-6
Rd 2: South Canterbury Rally May 10
Rd 3: Canterbury Rally June 1
Rd 4: Rally Coromandel August 23
Rd 5: Rally Bay of Plenty October 11
Rd 6: International Rally of Whangarei November 7-9

https://nzrallychamps.co.nz/calendar...turning-rounds

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from dirtfish: https://dirtfish.com/rally/wrc/paddo...t-as-a-driver/

(...) "With two ERC titles from the past two seasons, Paddon has his sights set on a new challenge in 2025: the Australian Rally Championship.

“That’s what we’re targeting, yeah,” he confirmed to DirtFish, “but it’s just a matter of trying to get the finances in place at the moment, which is not so easy in the current time. So, yeah, probably a little bit more focus on this side of the world.” (...)

interesting!