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2023 TER Series Champion Paddon takes a record 7th New Zealand Rally Championship

18.10.2023

Kiwi ace clinches 3rd season title after maiden TER Series and ERC success

 

Hyundai New Zealand driver Hayden Paddon, codriven by John Kennard on a Hyundai i20 Rally 2, has won the Rally Bay of Plenty, securing a record 7th New Zealand Rally Championship title.

 

The TER Ambassador, 2022 TER – Tour European Rally, Asia-Pacific and New Zealand Champion, has claimed another success in a season which has seen the Paddon-Kennard crew clinch the maiden TER Series, the World Series of TER, thanks to a record 10th victory in New Zealand’s Otago Rally, followed by a sensational final stage win in Rally Barbados.

 

The Hyundai New Zealand driver also made history when Paddon became the first non-European driver to win the European Rally Championship*, before rounding off his season in style with a back-to-back national title after a fight which went down to the wire into the final round.

 

Hayden Paddon said: “Massive credit to the team and the amount of work everyone’s put in this year, and all in all, we’re delighted to top off a pretty successful season”.

 

*subject to confirmation of the results by the FIA