2022 World Rally Championship Round 11 - Rally New Zealand

Irishman Craig Breen says the thought of not having Paul Nagle sitting alongside him beyond this month’s Rally Spain will be “strange”.

Sebastien Ogier feels the way in which Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Kalle Rovanpera won this year’s World Rally Championship title bore all the hallmarks of “a great champion”.

Hyundai Motorsport’s interim chief says losing out on the drivers’ title with two rounds of this season’s World Rally Championship remaining serves as “motivation and inspiration” to all those under his stewardship.

Finland’s 20-year wait for a new World Rally champion was ended by Kalle Rovanpera as he cruised to victory on the final day of Repco Rally New Zealand.

Toyota Gazoo Racing driver Kalle Rovanpera celebrated his birthday in dream fashion on the penultimate leg of Repco Rally New Zealand by ending Saturday with a near half-minute lead to inch closer to lifting a first World Rally Championship title.

On a day that produced plenty of drama and no fewer than three different leaders, it was Ott Tanak who ended the Friday leg of Repco Rally New Zealand at the top of the time sheets.

World Rally Championship leader Kalle Rovanpera threw down the gauntlet to his Rally1 rivals on the short Repco Rally New Zealand shakedown stage.

How do you prepare for a relative unknown in the World Rally Championship? That is one of the questions surely being asked by team personnel, drivers and co-drivers ahead of Repco Rally New Zealand in just a few days’ time.

Round eleven of the FIA World Rally Championship takes teams and crews to Repco Rally New Zealand for what is arguably the most eagerly-anticipated event on the 2022 calendar - and one team could already have a march on its rivals.

Adrien Fourmaux says the decision to withdraw his entry for next week’s Repco Rally New Zealand was made “by mutual agreement” between him and the management at M-Sport Ford.

Sebastien Ogier says the fact he has “unfinished business” at Rally New Zealand is the core reason why he is returning to the Auckland-based event later this month with the Toyota Gazoo Racing squad.