It's a hard road to the top of international motorsport for New Zealand drivers, but things could soon change thanks to a new initiative led by Kiwi professional rally driver Hayden Paddon.
Speaking on Radio Sport yesterday, the 31-year-old rally star discussed the next steps in his career, revealing that he had started work on a New Zealand based motorsport team.
"My life has always been rallying and motorsport so going forward I still want to drive, I still want to win, probably the key difference is I want to go and do it with our own Kiwi team and that's probably the next stage in my career," Paddon said.
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"We're putting the building blocks in place now to try and build up to that, it's a very long process, there's a lot of financial investment, there's a lot of people, a lot of infrastructure you have to build."