This week on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with NZRC Co-ordinator Simon Bell to talk results of a recently completed competitor survey, the season ending International Rally of Whangarei and that always controversial topic, Tarmac Rallying.

This week on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with Bryn Jones to talk a tough start to the season and how he's worked on rebounding for the second half of the season, plus his recent trip to the Elite Motorsport Academy New Zealand

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, BB catches up with Zeal Jones Racing and as an added bonus, his co-driver Waverley Jones to talk the season to date and why the final of the APRC doubling with our final round, the International Rally of Whangarei, is extra special for this young driver.

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, Budgie catches up with Hayden Paddon to discuss both his New Zealand and European Rally Championship campaigns to date, variety amongst championships and working with a young up and coming star of the sport.

Tonight on Thursday Night Recce, BB & Budgie embrace and wrap up the excitement around the return of national championship rallying to Invercargill with the Southern Lights Rally.

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?