Hayden Paddon
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🇳🇿 Hayden Paddon

#20 · Hyundai Motorsport

Car: Hyundai i20 N Rally1

About

New Zealand rally driver sharing Hyundai Motorsport's third entry in the FIA World Rally Championship, and the first non-European ever to win the European Rally Championship — then the only driver to win it twice, in 2023 and 2024.

Took the Production world championship in 2011 and a works Hyundai seat from 2014, winning Rally Argentina in 2016 — the first world championship round ever won by a New Zealander. Lost the drive at the end of 2018 and rebuilt himself through the ERC, returning to the top flight eight years later on a selected-events programme. A gravel driver by his own account, and a seven-time New Zealand champion.