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Solid First-Time Asphalt Outing For DMACK

Posted on November 1, 2011 | No Comments
DMACK Tyres has successfully completed the Rally de Espana after running its asphalt tyres for the first-ever time in the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship. DMACK had nominated its DMT-RC asphalt tyre in T5 hard and T7 medium compounds for priority drivers at this...
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2012 FIA Production car World Rally Championship Calendar Released

Posted on September 28, 2011 | No Comments
The 2012 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (PWRC) calendar was approved on 23rdSeptember by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. The PWRC will return in 2012 to celebrate its quarter century. Dedicated to cars of near showroomspecification, the PWRC has in recent years been...
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WRC & PWRC – bright future for R4 cars?

Posted on September 22, 2011 | No Comments

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Hayden Paddon – Thanks!!

Posted on September 19, 2011 | No Comments
We are now back home in New Zealand and our success from last weekend has well and truly sunk in. Work has continued on our 2012 plans and our plans for the rest of this season. The thousands of messages of support have been overwhelming...
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Hayden Paddon 2011 FIA Production car World Rally Champion – Questions/Answers

Posted on September 16, 2011 | No Comments
1. Your achievement this season is mind blowing – a record four wins in four events competed in and 2011 PWRC Champion with two rounds to go. How does that feel? I can’t believe it, it’s incredible! Rally Australia wasn’t an easy rally at all...
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Fastest Times As DMACK Gets To Grip With Conditions

Posted on September 11, 2011 | No Comments
PWRC Wildcard entry Nathan Quinn claimed seven fastest times in the WRC support category using DMACK tyres on his home round of the FIA World Rally Championship, Rally Australia. With widely varying conditions on all three days of the event, the rally proved another tough...
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Freshly crowned PWRC Champion Paddon makes history

Posted on September 11, 2011 | No Comments
Young Kiwi Hayden Paddon (Subaru, Michelin) and his co-driver John Kennard (NZL), made history in their Michelin-shod Subaru Impreza on the fifth round of the 2011 FIA Production car World Rally Championship at Rally Australia this weekend when they took their fourth victory in-a-row –...
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Hayden Paddon: Test before Rally Australia

Posted on September 7, 2011 | No Comments
We are now in Australia preparing for this week’s rally. After arriving Saturday night, we unloaded the container yesterday and prepared the cars for today’s test. Today’s test gave us a good chance to dial the car in for the roads and if the road...
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DMACK Looking Up Down Under

Posted on September 3, 2011 | No Comments
Round 10 of the FIA World Rally Championship takes DMACK Tyres to another continent as the WRC regulars arrive in New South Wales for what proves to be an exciting Rally Australia. The event marks the country’s return to the world series after a break...
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Hayden Paddon Before Rally Australia 2011

Posted on August 30, 2011 | No Comments
Now it is only 6 days until we are on the big bird and on our way to Australia. The last week since the car left has been some what quieter and has given us a chance to catch up with other things – including...
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DMACK Tyres happy with performance in Rally Finland

Posted on July 31, 2011 | No Comments
The flat out Finnish forests are famed throughout the rallying world for providing one of the biggest challenges in the FIA World Rally Championship season and this weekend’s Neste Oil Rally Finland certainly lived up to that reputation. While the DMACK DMG2 gravel tyre coped...
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Hayden Paddon seals PWRC hat trick at Neste Oil Rally Finland

Posted on July 31, 2011 | No Comments
Kiwi pairing Hayden Paddon and John Kennard successfully navigated their Suburu Impreza to victory for thethird time in-a-row on only their third event of the season this weekend at Neste Oil Rally Finland, the fourthround of the 2011 FIA Production car World Rally Championship (PWRC)....
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Hayden Paddon: Rally Finland update and testing

Posted on July 27, 2011 | No Comments
Things have been going well here in Finland as we build up to the weekends rally. The last couple of days we have had the chance to a acclimatize to the hot conditions and also have been out watching the Ford WRC test. Today we...
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Solid Performance Keeps DMACK On Top

Posted on June 1, 2011 | No Comments
DMACK Tyres continues to hold top position in the Production WRC standings after a solid performance by Martin Semerad at Rally Argentina. The young Czech driver’s fifth position was enough to keep him in the championship lead – albeit tied at the top with Kiwi...
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Hayden Paddon makes it two-for-two with victory in PWRC at Rally Argentina

Posted on May 29, 2011 | No Comments
Kiwi pairing Hayden Paddon and John Kennard clinched their second victory in-a-row in their Michelin-shod Subaru Impreza on the third round of the 2011 FIA Production car World Rally Championship at Rally Argentina this weekend. Paddon, who didn’t nominate Rally Sweden as a scoring PWRC...
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