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Highlights: Rally of Whangarei
The opening round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship was welcomed to Whangarei over the weekend. The first event of the international series also incorporated the first round of the New Zealand Rally Championships and Richard Mason, with wife Sara co-driving, finally flicked a long-standing monkey off their backs.
The International Rally of Whangarei
Whangarei Primary students came together to perform their school song to nine Kiwi rally drivers, in preparation for the VINZ International Rally of Whangarei. Three Whangarei Primary students got to choose two friends or siblings to get a ride to school in a rally car after winning a poster competition put on by Classic Hits Northland. When the cars arrived on the school field, students flocked around the drivers asking for autographs and photos, before coming together to perform the school song.
Rally brings $5.6 million
Some of the world's finest rally drivers will be experiencing Whangarei's "brilliant" rallying roads this weekend.