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This year’s International Rally of Whangarei represents a significant milestone in New Zealand rallying, with the 2010 event marking the start of the second decade of standalone FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship events in this country.
In the second big international rally of the year, New Zealand’s top rally competitors take on leading drivers from seven other countries during the International Rally of Whangarei which starts on Friday 2 July.
Next week’s International Rally of Whangarei, running 2 to 4 July, provides a significant financial boost to a co-operative of local community groups around the rural township of Maungaturoto and the Lions Clubs of the Whangarei district.
Rally New Zealand’s Rising Stars award winners all have plenty to play for when the third round of the Vantage New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC), the International Rally of Whangarei, takes place from 2 to 4 July.
Young Australian rally driver Brendan Reeves is up against two of the Asia Pacific region’s most experienced rally drivers in one of the subsidiary competitions being contested during July’s International Rally of Whangarei.
Former NorthTec automotive student and International Rally of Whangarei competitor Ben Jagger brought his Subaru rally car to NorthTec’s Future Trades campus recently to acknowledge the support of NorthTec boatbuilding tutor Roger Rhodes.
The Seed Force sponsored car has just been almost completely rebuilt in preparation for the upcoming International Rally of Whangarei with Roger and one of his students making an underbody protection pan out of Kevlar for the vehicle.
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