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Hayden Paddon: Second in P-WRC on Rally Japan

September 13, 2010

Hi We have finished the final day of Rally Japan and have held on to our 2nd PWRC position and 12th overall. It has been a very hard weekend, but it is great to get a strong finish and good championship points at the end of it all. Today the target was primarily to get [...]

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Hayden Paddon: Rally Japan Day 1

September 10, 2010

Hi, We have made it to the end of a very difficult day – one full of drama, as we only completed one of today’s eight stages without a problem. Our morning got off to a heart stopping start, when only 2km into the first stage after rounding a flat 140kmph blind corner, we found [...]

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Hayden Paddon: Rally Finland update

July 31, 2010

Hi, We have successfully completed a very long, but good day 1 of Rally Finland.  We are currently sitting 22nd overall and 3rd PWRC, only 0.7 seconds behind 2nd and with a fast local closing in from behind. We have had no major problems today.  On the morning loop of four stages we were suffering [...]

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Hayden Paddon: A win on Rally Whangarei

July 6, 2010

Hi, We have successfully completed the final day of Rally Whangarei and have hang on for our third victory of this event. We won all but one of today’s eight stages and the final winning margin was 3 minutes and 55 seconds over fellow Kiwi Emma Gilmour. The weekend has been perfect and everything has [...]

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Hayden Paddon: Pre-Rally Portugal

May 27, 2010

Hi, We have now completed our two days of recce, which have gone smoothly and well. First impressions of the roads after coming from Rally New Zealand are that they are very technical. There are a lot of things happening, which comes from a combination of short corners, short, sharp crests and combinations of corners. [...]

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