Motor Sport

It is a special year for the Catlins Coast Rally this year as the Eastern Southland Car Club hold the 20th edition of the event on Saturday 8 August. Amongst the eighty-four entries are two drivers, Andrew Graves of Gore and Barry Mills of BaIclutha, who have competed in every single one – with a […

The Catlins Coast Rally celebrates twenty years of action this Saturday and the spectacular entry list of more than eighty competitors is appropriate for such a momentous occasion. Spectators will see some of the biggest names in New Zealand rallying with no less a driver than Hayden Paddon running

Spectators at this year’s Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday will get a rare treat as Hayden Paddon makes an appearance at the event at the wheel of his Hyundai i20 AP4. Paddon is the only kiwi driver to ever win a World Rally Championship event having won 2016 Rally Argentina. He was the 2011 Producti

With such a large entry it is inevitable that there will be some interesting back stories among the competitors in the twentieth running of the Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday. Jeremy McIlwrick and Bradley Dawson’s first rally together was the Wyndham Rally of 1998 and they competed together in the

The cancellation of the New Zealand Rally Championship for 2020 due to Covid- 19 looks to have had an upside for the 20 th Catlins Coast Rally this Saturday (8 August). Josh Marston, a leading competitor at National level with finishes of third and second in the 2018 and 2019 New Zealand Rally Champ

New Zealand Rally Champion, Ben Hunt of Auckland, will take to the roads of the Catlins when the twentieth anniversary Catlins Coast Rally takes place on Saturday 8 August. This is the second time Hunt has come to Catlins as the reigning New Zealand Champion. After he won his first national title in

Last year’s Catlins Coast Rally winner, Garet Thomas of Darfield, returns to tackle the roads again this year. Thomas, with wife Gemma co-driving, won the event in dramatic fashion last year. The duo went into the final stage in third place, thirty-three seconds off the lead but when problems befell

The Catlins Coast Rally reaches a major milestone this year with the 20th edition of the event set to take place on the roads of the Catlins area on Saturday 8 August. Always a popular event, already seventy entries have been received for the rally with some of the biggest names of New Zealand rally