Two new events will be included in the New Zealand Rally Championship schedule for 2018 with a third South Island round and an event closer to Auckland planned.
The South Canterbury Car Club-run Rally South Canterbury features in back-to-back South Island events in June on the proposed calendar.
Staged three weeks after Rally Canterbury, the one-day rally, based out of Timaru, has a point of difference over the other two South Island rounds in that it is not a forest-based rally but rather a fast flowing event in farm land in the South Canterbury region.
Roads World Rally Championship star Hayden Paddon grew up on will be used.
The other new event on the calendar is a two-day event based out of Hamilton featuring many of the stages in Rally New Zealand this year. The Te Akau and Raglan stages, including the world-famous Whaanga Coast, will be used while there are plans to tap into the Auckland market by basing stages or service parks in the Maramarua Forest and at either Pukekohe Park Raceway or Hampton Downs.
