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Event 4 – Lone Star Rally of Canterbury 2025

1 June

Mike Tall winner of 2024 Rally

The Lone Star Rally of Canterbury 2025 will be held on Sunday 1st June as part of the New Zealand Rally Championship and based on North Canterbury.

Approx 140km of stages awaits the competitors after the Ceremonial Start at Lone Star Restaurant Manchester Street on Saturday afternoon before heading north on Sunday Morning including the infamous Forest Stage Mt Grey road run both uphill in the morning and downhill in the afternoon through Ashley Forest, popular North Canterbury public roads such as Happy Valley Rd, Onepunga Rd and Ram Paddock Rd and following last years hugely popular spectator stage to finish the rally a multi-lap blast round Euromarque Motorsport Park (Ruapuna Raceway) before Finishing again at Lone Star Restaurant Manchester Street.

Documentation – Saturday 31 May from 7:30 at Joe’s Garage Rangiora followed by recce. For those not doing recce 13:00 – 15:00 at Rubber Developments Ltd

Ceremonial start in Eaton Place outside Lone Star Manchester St from 17:00

Sunday 1^st of June – car 1 leaves Joe’s Garage Rangiora at 7:30 and tours to Ashley Forest. SS1 uses the full length of Mt Grey Rd at 14.21 km and starts at 8:10. The road was hard and swept this morning, but no guarantees come rally day – you never know what the forestry people will do! Tour to Amberley for a 20-minute service in the Countdown supermarket car park.
SS2, Happy Valley Rd which starts at the Motunau beach end at 9:46 and is 18.43 km looping back to Motunau Beach Rd via Glendhu Rd. This is great piece of road not used for many years. Then a tour up SH1 with a remote refuel, over the Hurunui bridge turning immediately left into Ethelton Rd for
SS3, Kaiwara/Eggelston Rds at 29.89 km, starting at 10:34. Lovely flowing piece of road and quite fast in places.
SS4 This is followed by a short tour to Sinclair Rd starting at 11:10. Although short at 4.43 km and quite tight it does flow really well but is quite technical. Next is a tour into Cheviot for service 2, with a 30 minute allowance.
SS5 is Nape Nape/Glendhu at 19.82 km, starting at 12:14 and comes back out onto Motunau Beach Rd again. There is a 50 km tour through Greta Valley and Scargill to
SS6, Heathstock/Ram Paddock Rds at 22.90 km which starts at 13:14. It ends near Broomfield for service 3 which is 20 minutes.
SS7 This is followed by the short Onepunga Rd at 6.20 km being SS7 at 14:23.
Then back into Ashley Forest for SS8 at 14:53, Mt Grey down at 14.21 km which is SS1 in the opposite direction. The stage ends at noters corner (the uphill of the Ashley Forest Rallysprint).
Finally, a tour to Euromarque Ruapuna Raceway for the 13.92 km SS9 starting at 16:10. There is a tyre and refuel only opportunity before the start and gravel tyres must be used.
Then the tour back to Lone Star, Manchester Street for the ceremonial finish with the first car due at 17:00. Dinner and prize giving is in the restaurant starting around 20:30.

A reminder to anyone with Lone Star and/or Joe’s Garage vouchers from last year that these need to be redeemed by the end of May before they expire

Entry List – 2025 Rally Entrant List