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Hayden Paddon

Hayden Paddon

Name: Hayden Paddon

Age: 24 (20/4/87)

Hometown: Geraldine, South Island, NZ

Started Motorsport: Age 6 (go-karts)

First Car: Mini Leyland

First Rally: 2002 Hamner Rally (age 15)

First Overall Rally win: Whangarei 2007

Favourite Rally Stage: Waipu Caves, Whangarei, NZ

Best Results: 9th overall Rally Australia 2009, 1st overall 2009 Rally Otago, Whangarei, Wairarapa and Nelson.

Accomplishments


• 2011 Rally New Zealand winner
• 2009 FIA Pacific Cup Champions
• 2009 FIA Pacific Cup Champions
• 2007 and 2009 FIA Rally of Whangarei winners
• 2008 and 2009 Rally Founders winner
• 2008 and 2009 New Zealand Rally Champions
• 2006, 2007 and 2008 New Zealand Junior Rally Champion
• 6 NZRC Rally victories
• Competed in Thailand, Wales Rally GB, Malaysia, Australia and New Caledonia.

 

New Zealand’s top rally driver Hayden Paddon has announced the details of his 2011 Production World Rally Championship (PWRC) campaign and the formation of the New Zealand World Rally Team, something that Paddon describes as a “dream come true”.

Paddon has formed what is essentially the first New Zealand world rally team since Possum Bourne. The new team is run by Hayden Paddon Rallysport Global Ltd, the company formed by Paddon and his supporters late in 2010.

The goal is simple: to win the 2011 PWRC title.

Not only does Paddon’s 2011 campaign represent the first time a New Zealand team has put together a full PWRC campaign, it’s also got a major twist for the long-time Mitsubishi driver.

Paddon finished third in the production car class – a feeder series to the World Rally Championship – on debut in 2010. That campaign had the backing of funding and a professionally-prepared vehicle from the Pirelli Star Driver scholarship that Paddon won in 2009, as well as funding from Paddon’s own sponsors and a Rally New Zealand Rising Stars driver development award.

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Ritchie Taylor

RitchieRitchie Taylor has been racing speedway for 26 seasons, starting of in the Streetstock grade progressing through the various saloon grades, entering the Super Saloon grade in 1990.

In the early years he based his racing out the Dunedin area and then in 1994 shifted his racing to Woodford Glen which has probably the most competitive field of Super Saloons in the country.

In 1998 he purchased his first Murray Gordge Chassis Corvette and this car provided him with a lot of success and elevated him to one of the top drivers in the South Island. 
After a number of successful seasons this car was sold on and a later model Murray Gordge chassis was purchased.  To date this car has been one of the more successful cars in the South Island.

The current car is a late model body style, Murray Gordge Chassis, 418 cu in Methanol injected chevy, bert 2 speed trans and winters quick change diff, suspension is coil overs all round.

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Taylor Racing Major Achievements 2009-10 Season

  • 1st Moller & Young Trophy1st  Canterbury Champs
  • 1st  Remembrance Champs
  • 1st Champion of Champions
  • 2nd Elf South Island Series


Previous years Achievements

  • Speedway NZ Super Saloon Driver of the Year
  • 2 x 1st South Island Super Saloon Champs
  • 2nd New Zealand Super Saloon Champs
  • 2 x 2nd New Zealand Grand Prix
  • 2 x 1st Canterbury Champs
  • 4 x 1st South Island Super Saloon Series
  • 2nd 3rd South Island Super Saloon Series
  • 1st South Pacific Grand Prix
  • 1st  Beachlands Speedway Season Points
  • 1st Champion of Champions
  • 2nd Champion of Champions
  • 1st Hoopla
  • 2nd Hoopla
  • 4 x 1st Woodford Glen Feature Points
  • 6 x 1st Woodford Glen Season Points
  • Best Present Super Saloon 09/09
  • 3 x Best Mechanically Prepared Super Saloon