BB & Budgie’s Thursday Night Recce

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, but the chat makes up for it

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 schedule.