History-making Kiwi rally co-driver John Kennard will step down from his role as Hayden Paddon’s co-driver in the FIA World Rally Championship after July’s Rally Finland. Kennard and Paddon have enjoyed a 12-year partnership which has taken the now famous Kiwi pair from domestic rally competition to the heights of world rallying. Rally Finland is […]
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Hayden Paddon takes a number of positives from the fifth place result he and co-driver John Kennard secured at Rally Mexico, but New Zealand’s top rally driver is striving for much more in future events in this year’s FIA World Rally Championship. Following the final two stages on Sunday (CST), Paddon said: “It’s certainly been […]
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Hayden Paddon heads to Mexico’s third round of the FIA World Rally Championship having completed plenty of solid preparation in the preceding weeks. Paddon and co-driver John Kennard don’t underestimate the challenges of the Rally Guanajuato México, based in the city of Leon 400km north-west of Mexico City, where temperatures and altitude as the rally […]
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ORGANISERS OF RALLYE MONTE CARLO HAVE CONFIRMED THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A SPECTATOR WHO WAS INJURED DURING AN INCIDENT IN TONIGHT’S OPENING STAGE. A statement issued in the early hours of Saturday morning read: ‘The Automobile Club de Monaco regrets to advise further details following incident of the car #4 (Paddon/Kennard) in SS 1. The […]
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Newly-crowned Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen and world rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard are among 22 athletes nominated for the High Performance Sport New Zealand Sportsman of the Year in the Halberg Awards. The three Kiwi motorsport competitors were named by the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation as Sportsman of the Year nominees in […]
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Hayden Paddon says he’s looking forward to continuing to improve his performance on tarmac surfaces as he and co-driver John Kennard compete in the German World Rally Championship round this coming weekend. The 18-21 August running of ADAC Rallye Deutschland, the first of four consecutive tarmac WRC events, represents the fourth time the Kiwi pair […]
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