CSB - Ben Hunt - NZ Rally Champion

Ben Hunt has won his third New Zealand Rally Championship and first since 2019 with a comfortable second place finish at the International Rally of Whangarei.

Hayden Paddon, in the Hyundai New Zealand i20 Rally 2, was the class of the field once again, powering to a dominant rally win but just missed out to Hunt in the season’s standings having missed the opening round at Otago due to a clash with his European Rally Championship