MotorSport New Zealand has established an environment sustainability fund to help offset the sport’s carbon emissions, with Otago Rally the first to offset its competitors’ carbon emissions. 

In a New Zealand-first for the sport, Otago Rally has pledged to contribute to the fund by offsetting all competitor carbon emissions for the duration of this weekend’s Rally – the first round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship – as well as the two days of competitor renaissance. ...more...

A total of eight different rally winners will tackle the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship opener this weekend exactly 546 days since the last day of competition.

A field of 49 cars will take part in the Winmax Otago Rally starting with a ceremonial opening in downtown Dunedin on Friday, eagerly waiting to go rallying again after the entire 2020 season was lost to COVID-19....more...

Can anyone beat Hayden Paddon. And in the Classic Rally, who's the favourite given there's no international star in 2021?

They're just two of the questions begging to be answered when the Otago Rally gets underway from Dunedin's Octagon on Friday night.  

Of a record 114 starters, there are 49 entries in the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship opening round.  ...more...

Subaru brand ambassador and New Zealand national rally champion Ben Hunt is ready to defend his title, although he will have a key team member missing at this weekend’s season-opening Rally of Otago.

It is not a mechanic from his Hunt Motorsport team, nor is it long-term co-driver Tony Rawstorn - it’s his wife Emma, who will stay home in Auckland looking after the Hunt’s new baby girl.

“I guess I’ll have to find somebody else to do my on-event social media for me. Having little Isadora means Emma is out for the first few rallies. She definitely enjoys coming along but the flipside is she gets to enjoy this special time with our daughter,” Hunt says....more...

Following last year’s cancellation of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC), Emma Gilmour’s excitement levels are higher than usual heading into the 2021 season opener at her home event this weekend.

The Dunedin rally driver will start the five-round NZRC at the Rally of Otago with a tried and proven new team and a fresh perspective. Choice Performance, in Pukekohe, has given the Vantage Windows and Doors Suzuki Swift AP4 its pre-season refresh and has been running it for Emma in the North Island....more...

Christchurch’s Dylan Thomson will return to where it all began when he contests the FIA two-wheel drive class of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, starting with this weekend’s Winmax Otago Rally.

  Having moved to the outright class for the 2019 season, where he placed third in the national championship, Thomson was unable to put together a package to return in an outright car.  

Instead, he and regular co-driver Amy Hudson will return in the Total Lubricants Ford Fiesta ST which has delivered great success through the early stages of his career and will return to a class that is stacked with young talent.  ...more...