Eighty-five entries have been received for the 2010 Rally of Otago, which includes the first round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, and the popular Dunlop International Classic Rally.

To be held in and around Dunedin on April 10 and 11, the Rally of Otago boasts some of the biggest names in New Zealand rallying, as well as drivers from Italy and Australia.

The 2010 Rally of Otago is on this weekend, and thousands of spectators are expected to converge on the forests to watch the action, and to capture it on camera.

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Rotorua’s Sloan Cox is set to take up the challenge of the Otago Rally this weekend.
 
For Cox and co-driving sister Tarryn, it is their first pace-noted rally together after a season apart. The pair have been working with multiple New Zealand rally champion Geof Argyle and practising pace note writing on local roads, gaining extra confidence before the opening round of the New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC).

Patrick Malley has made his intentions clear prior to the opening round of the New Zealand Rally Championship.
 
“I just want to keep on winning,” says the 26 year old, who took victory at the season opening Tauranga Clubmans Rally and last seasons ending Rally of the North.

The 2010 Rally Season for Kerikeri based Team Dilusi begins this weekend and anticipation is high as ‘Lucy’ (the car) is in its final stages of preparation.

Driver Kingsley Thompson, co-driver Malcolm Peden and the crew have been working hard over the past months getting the 2009 Mitsubishi Evolution X ready with some new modifications and upgrades such as bigger brakes and the new ‘dogbox’. Upgrading from the standard gearbox will allow Thompson to change gears without using the clutch.

Two of New Zealand rallying’s biggest stars will swap seats for the 2010 Dunlop International Classic Rally of Otago.

Mark Tapper and Jeff Judd are both well known throughout New Zealand motorsport, and have separately achieved great success over many years.

Nelson rally driver Dominick Unterberger will have the perfect product on board his Excelsior Rallysport Subaru Impreza when the opening round of this year's New Zealand Rally Championship [NZRC] starts in Dunedin this Friday, as the unique energy drink GO FAST! will be supporting the 25 year old's 2010 campaign.
 

Current Rookie and Junior New Zealand Rally Champion, Matt Jansen, is looking to build on last year's extremely successful debut season and will be gunning for higher honours when the New Zealand Rally Championship [NZRC} starts with Rally Otago this weekend - April 9 -11.
 

The top speed in this month’s Rally of Otago will have a new co-driver calling the pacenotes over the two days of action on April 10 and 11.

Richard Mason, the winner of the event in 2007 and 2008, usually has his wife, Sara Mason, sitting beside him in their Subaru Impreza WRX STI.