GEARING UP: Alex Kelsey, Coromandel driver, during the first day of this year's International Rally of Whangarei.PHOTO/JOHN STONE
The 2016 New Zealand Rally Championship will visit Whangarei, Otago, Canterbury, Gisborne, Coromandel and new destination Paihia .
The exciting calendar will see New Zealand's best rally drivers compete on a variety of terrain from the fast cambered roads of Whangarei, the undulating crests of the Otago highlands, Canterbury's wintry
forest tracks and the twisting roads of the Gisborne and Coromandel ranges, before finishing on the Far North's gravel highways.
The season will again start at the International Rally of Whangarei on April 8-10, which doubles as a round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally.
New to the championship next year and forming the final round will be Rally of the North on October 1. A long-standing regional event, Rally of the North is famed for the quality of its Northern gravel stages that range between fast and flowing to tight and technical.
