See the rally

Please follow the directions of all stage Marshalls and take your rubbish with you when you leave or use the bins if provided.

Download the Ceremonial Start Map

Download the Stage Map

Download the Seeded entry list

Download the Prize Giving Details

Friday 6th May

Ceremonial start and driver autograph signing session

From 6pm Manukau City Centre  Free for all.

Come along and meet your favourite New Zealand rally drivers. See competitors in the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, the Rally New Zealand Historic Rally and the Possum Bourne Memorial Rally cross the start ramp to officially start this year’s Rally New Zealand.

Download the map above for the location of the ceremonial start.

Saturday 7th May

Rally New Zealand rally stages

Access to rural rally stages is via gold coin donation to support the community groups which help with on-event parking and safety marshalling. Refer official rally map for best locations. Price for entry to Hampton Downs special stage shown below.

With an 8am start at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, competitors head west towards Port Waikato for three stages – Te Akau North, New Baker and New Franklin – before a super special stage around the Hampton Down race track. After the lunchtime service break, crews repeat the four stages in the afternoon. This one day of 148 competitive kilometres completes the action for competitors in the Possum Bourne Memorial Rally field who wrap up the day with a prize-giving at the Massey Hall A & P Show Grounds Pukekohe right next to the Pukekohe Car Club.

BMC Race Series at Hampton Downs

$10 per adult, children under 12 free; tickets at the gate

At Hampton Downs, in between the running of each super special stage, the final rounds of three popular classic car race series take place. With practice and three races for each series, classic car fans will delight in the on-track action from the Arrow Wheels, Auckland Engineering Supplies Classic Series and the Alfa Romeo series. Star cars include Tony Robert’s fearsome Chevrolet Corvette, Racing Ray William’s Porsche along with numerous Jaguars, Ferraris, Datsun Zs, Lancias, Ford Escorts, MGBs and Fiats.

Sunday 8th

Rally New Zealand rally stages

The competitors in the Possum Bourne Memorial Rally have the option to compete in Sunday’s stages as well if they wish a decision that can be made at the completion of Saturdays stages. This is however an informal day for them as far as the Possum Bourne Memorial Rally Trophies are concerned as these are only contested on Saturday’s stages.

Access to rural rally stages is via gold coin donation to support the community groups which help with on-event parking and safety marshalling. Refer official rally map for best locations. Price for entry to Hampton Downs special stage shown below.

With an 8am start at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Rally New Zealand competitors head to the south-west to tackle five stages around Raglan, including the iconic Whaanga Coast stage. They return to Hampton Down for a final super special stage starting at 4pm before the finish ceremony and prize-giving at 5:30pm.

High Octane on Hampton

$25 per adult, children under 12 free; tickets at the gate

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An action-packed day with a huge variety of motorsport, competitions and displays, including:

  • Gymkhana X
    New Zealand’s first-ever ‘Gymkhana X’ competition: a Ken Block-style event where competitors negotiate a technical course on the Hampton Downs Skidpan, while racing against the clock. Time penalties are added when competitors hit course markers, or fail to slide their car in the designated ‘drift’ zones.
  • Gran Turismo 5 competition
    Open to all (event ticket must be purchased for access to competition area). For the first round, all entrants ‘drive’ the HKS Racing Performer CT230R on Vision Racer simulation units and attempt to do the fastest lap on the Tsukuba Circuit. A scoreboard of times will be kept throughout the day, with the entrant with the fastest lap time receiving $500 cash and a special Sony prize. Then the top eight competitors race off – round-robin style in pairs – ‘driving’ Sébastien Loeb’s 2010 Citroën WRC car on a Gran Turismo gravel rally stage until the grand winner is found. All eight finalists receive prizes with the winner receiving $500 cash, $100 fuel vouchers and a special Sony prize pack including a PS3 console.
  • D1NZ Drift Demo
    The crème of New Zealand’s drifting crop will be attacking the track twice during the day in D1NZ Drift Demo sessions. Spectators can expect formation drifting as well as some wild, high-speed sideways antics into the dipper section of the track as the competitors aim to impress the judges in an ‘Extreme Angle’ competition.
  • Time Attack
    Purpose-built time attack machines put it all on the line for one faultless lap of the circuit. It’s all about power, the perfect chassis, suspension and brake set up. Fastest lap time wins.
  • Deluxe Bikini Models
    See bikini models strut their stuff on stage as they vie for their chance to win the coveted Miss High Octane crown.
  • Circuit Racing
    Circuit racing fans will not be disappointed at the ‘big banger’ line-up set to compete in three class categories. See classic and modern muscle cars, sports and GTs, and open wheeler racing from a specially-invited field of Formula 5000s and Atlantics.
  • 100-Car Park-Up
    100 modified high performance street cars from a number of prominent car clubs will be on static display throughout the day and taking part in circuit lapping during the lunch break.