WRC News Rovanperä hit with same penalty as Tänak Kalle Rovanperä has been hit with the same five-second penalty for an identical hybrid boost breach as World Rally Championship rivals Ott Tänak and Thierry Neuville… Read more by Luke Barry September 30, 2022 2 min
WRC Features Unexpectedly meeting a hero at Rally New Zealand Simon Larkin, I’m very sorry. It’s thanks to Simon that I’m standing in Helensville, New Zealand on a Thursday morning, readying myself for some of… Read more by David Evans September 30, 2022 3 min
WRC Features Paddon on a “hiding to nothing” in New Zealand David Evans couldn’t demonstrate the New Zealand fans’ love for Hayden Paddon any better when speaking to him at the end of the opening loop… Read more by Rob Hansford September 30, 2022 3 min
WRC News Hybrid boost penalty costs Tänak lead in New Zealand Ott Tänak has lost the lead of Rally New Zealand due to a hybrid boost penalty, with team-mate Thierry Neuville also handed an identical penalty… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 30, 2022 2 min
WRC News What you missed from Friday in New Zealand The moment World Rally Championship fans have been waiting for for 10 years has finally been registered: Rally New Zealand is firmly underway. Round 11… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 5 min
WRC Video Capturing Breen’s recovery after New Zealand crash By the end of Friday’s second stage of the day, Craig Breen was on cloud nine. He was leading the rally, feeling relaxed and totally… Read more by DirtFish Media September 29, 2022
WRC News Tänak leads Evans by just 0.2s going into Saturday Ott Tänak leads Rally New Zealand by just 0.2 seconds overnight from Elfyn Evans as Sébastien Ogier dropped to third as he lost time without… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Breen expected to restart New Zealand on Saturday Craig Breen is expected to return to Rally New Zealand action tomorrow despite putting his Ford Puma Rally 1 Hybrid off the road on the… Read more by David Evans September 29, 2022 2 min
WRC News Rovanperä dominates SS6 to close gap to leaders Kalle Rovanperä has claimed his first stage win of Rally New Zealand to close in on the leaders on a rain-affected SS6, as Sébastien Ogier… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News M-Sport “surprised” to see Breen off in New Zealand M-Sport Ford team principal Richard Millener was “surprised” to see Craig Breen make his fourth mistake in the last five Rally New Zealand rallies given… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Breen crashes on SS5, Ogier storms into the lead Craig Breen has slid down a bank and out of the first day of Rally New Zealand, on the same corner Colin McRae was caught… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Tänak wins SS4 to move into New Zealand lead Ott Tänak has wrestled the lead of Rally New Zealand off Craig Breen with fastest time on the final stage of Friday morning as Elfyn… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Evans sets pace on SS3, Breen extends lead Craig Breen continues to lead Rally New Zealand but it was Elfyn Evans who set the pace on Te Akau South as Thierry Neuville spun…. Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Greensmith fastest on SS2, Breen takes overall lead Craig Breen leads Rally New Zealand after the first gravel stage, the famed Whaanga Coast test, but it was M-Sport Ford team-mate Gus Greensmith who… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC Features The WRC’s decade-long wait for paradise is over For Europeans – especially the ones from the chillier parts to the north – the sense of occasion is enormous. A day, possibly a day… Read more by David Evans September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Latvala wants Rovanperä to focus on Tänak, not winning Jari-Matti Latvala wants Kalle Rovanperä to focus on battling Ott Tänak on Rally New Zealand, rather than chasing victory, as the 21-year-old edges closer to… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News “Magic” New Zealand stages even better than expected Gus Greensmith was expecting big things. Rally New Zealand, he’d told DirtFish, was that one rally remaining on his bucket list to tick off. But… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022 3 min
WRC News Rovanperä doesn’t plan to break Loeb’s WRC records Kalle Rovanperä doesn’t think he will ever surpass Sébastien Loeb’s record of World Rally Championship wins and titles, suggesting he may not stick at rallying long enough… Read more by Luke Barry September 29, 2022
