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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