BB & Budgie’s Thursday Night Recce

On this edition of Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Amy Keighley to discuss her defence of the Group A championship as well as a solid finish at the Canterbury Rally over the weekend, taking a class win and just missing the top ten outright and what the future holds.    

If we said to you that there was a World Champion amongst our NZRC competitors this year and his name isn't Hayden Paddon, who would you think? Tonight, BB catches up with Paul Cross to discuss where his rallying began, his journey so far, taking a break from rallying and winning a world championship as well as his take on the Subaru H6 class.

Tonight on BB & Budgie's Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with defending 2WD champion Dylan Thomson to talk his new car, taking a two-wheel drive car to fourth in the outright standings in 2023, his start to this season and what the future holds.

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie cover off the excitement from the South Canterbury Hydraulics South Canterbury Rally.

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie run their eye over the entry list for the South Canterbury Rally and give some insights into the weekend's action ahead.

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Robbie Stokes to discuss his most successful start to an NZRC campaign to date, having a second car in the team and his thoughts on the control tyre after the season opener

This week in the first of our interviews, BB catches up with round one winner and current championship leader Jack Hawkeswood to talk changes that led to success, that epic Otago battle and how he kept the nerves at bay.

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie give their thoughts on one of the most intriguing starts to the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship and what it means for the season to come

We're back! BB & Budgie catch up to run a ruler over the entry list of this weekend's Central Machine Hire Otago Rally.

Tonight on BB & Budgie's Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Jared Parker to discuss a season that started with a bare body shell and ended with him coming out on top of a winner takes all battle for the Rally Challenge 2WD class. He also talks just how accessible the Rally Challenge class is and what the future may look like.

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Jordan Grant, who along with Bryn Jones, Zeal Jones and Jackson Clendon, got the opportunity to test an AP4 car over the weekend with none other than Hayden Paddon in the silly seat as part of the Winmax Junior Driver program. He also talks us through the frightening Daybreaker accident and how both he and co-driver Glenn Goldring were able t...

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with Glenn Alcorn to talk his rallying career to date, his debut NZRC season and what the future holds

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with Jack Smith to talk about the free Next-Gen event to be held at Mt Smart Stadium this Saturday

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie wrap up an epic finish to the 2023 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, the Battery Town Rally Bay of Plenty 2023

On tonight's Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie run their eye over the entry list of the season finale, the Battery Town Rally Bay of Plenty

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Dave Loughlin from the organising team of the Battery Town Rally Bay of Plenty to have a chat about their upcoming event, what goes into pulling an event together and some of the challenges that have kept his team well and truly on their toes!

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie talk about control tyres in the NZRC as well as the successful return of the Daybreaker Rally 

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with 4x New Zealand Rally Champion Bruce Herbert to talk next week's Daybreaker Rally, a couple of good memories and a couple of not so good ones, plus his take on the current crop of front runners and how to adapt to safety notes from the person that adapted to them best when they were introduced at the turn of the century.

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with defending Rally Challenge champion Jeff Ward to discuss the friendly rivalries of the challenge class and what he's offering up for dinner at the pre-Daybreaker BBQ..

This week on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with 5x National Champion Richard Mason to get his view on where the championship is at, the cost of participation and what might yet tempt him out of retirement....

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with Kingsley Jones to talk about his return to the NZRC, taking a step back to the future while Kingsley manages to take a couple of friendly shots at one of his rivals.

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with one of our veterans, Charlie Evans to discuss what got him involved in the sport 40 years ago and talk several interesting points including tarmac rallying, front drive v rear drive and why we haven't seen him in a four-wheel drive (yet), plus what motivated him to get involved with organising rallies. Apologies for some of the audio quality, b...

This week on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Hayden Paddon talking his successful season that to date sees him in line to wrap up the European Rally Championship with a round to spare as well as the front runner in the hunt for a seventh New Zealand Rally Championship title. They also discuss what the future may hold and why Hayden has set himself up with a crazy with a crazy travel s...

This week on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Robbie Stokes to talk a heartbreaking start to the season, where to from here and Robbie tells us all about checking out rallying in Ireland.