Hayden Paddon

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Hayden Paddon
File:Rajd Polski 2015 Hayden Paddon 3.JPG
Hayden Paddon at the 2015 Rally Poland
Personal information
Nationality New Zealand New Zealander
Born (1987-04-20) 20 April 1987 (age 37)
Geraldine, New Zealand
World Rally Championship record
Active years 2007 – present
Co-driver New Zealand John Kennard
Teams Hyundai World Rally Team, M-Sport World Rally Team, Pirelli Star Driver
Rallies 52
Championships 0
Rally wins 1
Podiums 3
Stage wins 15
Total points 178
First rally 2007 Rally New Zealand
First win 2016 Rally Argentina

Hayden Paddon (born 20 April 1987) is a New Zealand rally driver. He was PWRC world champion in 2011 and won the New Zealand Rally Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2013.

Career

File:H. Paddon - J. Kennard (17900823599).jpg
Paddon driving at the 2015 Rally de Portugal.

Hayden Paddon was introduced into motorsport at an early age, his father Chris being a rally driver, beginning his career competing in karting. He competed in his first rally in 2002, at the age of 15. In 2005, he rolled and burnt his car in Rally Canterbury 2005, but was helped by localand In 2006 he began competing in the New Zealand Rally Championship in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII, winning both the Junior and Rookie titles. In 2007 he made his World Rally Championship debut competing in the Production World Rally Championship category at his home event in New Zealand as a wildcard entry, and then in the Team Jordan entry for Rally GB. In the New Zealand championship he retained his Junior title and came within a point of winning the championship outright. In 2008 he competed in a new Mitsubishi Evo IX, winning the New Zealand title. He also finished 13th overall and fourth in PWRC on his home round of the WRC.

In 2009 he retained his New Zealand title, won the Pacific Cup, and also qualified for the Pirelli Star Driver Asia-Pacific final at the 2009 Rally Australia. Paddon was the fastest of the drivers on the opening day's stages, meaning he won the Pirelli Star Driver scholarship, giving him a fully funded programme for six events of the 2010 World Rally Championship season. Paddon's event got even better when he finished ninth overall, ahead of all of the PWRC regulars. Paddon also won a $50,000 International Rising Stars Scholarship run by Rally of New Zealand, giving him the additional funding needed to complete a full 2010 PWRC campaign in addition to the PSD events.[1]

In 2010, Paddon won the PWRC category of Rally New Zealand in his own Evo IX, finishing 14th overall. He then finished third and second in PWRC on Rally Finland and Rallye Deutschland in the Pirelli Star Driver Evo X.[2]

In 2011, Paddon contested a full PWRC Season, consisting of 6 Rounds; Portugal, Argentina, Finland, Australia, Spain and GB. He competed under his newly formed team New Zealand World Rally Team and in a surprising move, Paddon switched to a Subaru for the 2011 Season, as he had usually run in a Mitsubishi. Paddon drove a STR11 Subaru Impreza N4 run by Belgian Team Symtech Racing.[3] Paddon's 2011 season proved to be a breakthrough as he took 1st place in four rallies consecutively: Portugal, Argentina, Finland and Australia, where he became 2011 P-WRC Champion.

The 2012 season saw Paddon move to the S-WRC championship in a Škoda Fabia S2000. After a 4th place among the S-WRC finishers in Sweden, he took his first S-WRC win in his second rally in the car at 2012 Rally de Portugal, which saw many competitors, including Paddon, have breakdowns.

2014 saw Paddon's first stage win in the World Rally Championship during the Rally Catalunya in Spain.[4]

In 2015, Paddon took his first ever lead of a WRC event in the Rally d'Italia.[4] Paddon was the first New Zealander to lead a World Rally Championship event since Possum Bourne held the lead in the 1999 Rally New Zealand and the first one to do so outside of his country.[5] He finished second overall, behind Sébastien Ogier, after a careful performance and many stage wins.

In 2016, on the 4th round, the YPF Rally Argentina, Paddon took his - and New Zealand's - first WRC win by 13.3 seconds from Sébastien Ogier. His co-driver, John Kennard also became the oldest co-driver to win a WRC round at 57 years of age.[6] Notably and perhaps controversially he celebrated the victory with a black and silver fern flag rather than the flag of New Zealand, following the failed flag referendum held earlier in the year. His intent was to distinguish the New Zealand flag from the Australian flag, where confusions still exists even when at the time of the victory, he was not competing against Australian drivers or co-drivers.

WRC Victories

 #  Event Season Co-driver Car
1 Argentina 36° YPF Rally Argentina 2016 New Zealand John Kennard Hyundai i20 WRC

Results

WRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points
2007 Paddon Direct Green Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MON SWE NOR MEX POR ARG ITA GRE FIN GER NZL
49		 NC 0
Team Jordan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX ESP FRA JPN IRE GBR
Ret
2008 Paddon Direct Green Team Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX MON SWE MEX ARG JOR ITA GRE TUR FIN GER NZL
12		 ESP FRA JPN GBR NC 0
2009 Hayden Paddon Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX IRE NOR CYP POR ARG ITA GRE POL FIN AUS
9		 ESP GBR NC 0
2010 Pirelli Star Driver Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X SWE MEX JOR TUR
26		 POR
20		 BUL FIN
21		 GER
19		 FRA
35		 ESP GBR
19		 NC 0
Hayden Paddon Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX NZL
14		 JPN
12
2011 New Zealand World Rally Team Subaru Impreza WRX STi SWE MEX POR
11		 JOR ITA ARG
9		 GRE FIN
19		 GER AUS
6		 FRA ESP
34		 18th 10
Hayden Paddon Subaru Impreza STi R4 GBR
13
2012 Hayden Paddon Škoda Fabia S2000 MON SWE
23		 MEX POR
16		 ARG GRE NZL
12		 FIN
Ret		 GER GBR
26		 FRA
Ret		 ITA ESP
20		 NC 0
2013 Hayden Paddon Škoda Fabia S2000 MON SWE MEX POR ARG GRE ITA FIN
11		 GER
8		 AUS
17		 FRA GBR 18th 8
Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team Ford Fiesta RS WRC ESP
8
2014 Hyundai Motorsport N Hyundai i20 WRC MON SWE MEX POR ARG ITA
12		 POL
8		 FIN
8		 GER AUS
6		 FRA ESP
9		 GBR
10		 14th 19
2015 Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 WRC MON SWE
5		 AUS
5		 GBR
5		 9th 84
Hyundai Motorsport N MEX
17		 ARG
16		 POR
8		 ITA
2		 POL
4		 FIN
Ret		 GER
9		 FRA
5		 ESP
6
2016 Hyundai Motorsport N Hyundai i20 WRC MON
25		 MEX
5		 ARG
1		 FIN GER CHN FRA ESP GBR AUS 4th* 57*
Hyundai Motorsport SWE
2		 POR
Ret		 ITA POL

* Season still in progress.

PWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 PWRC Points
2007 Paddon Direct Team Green Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII MON SWE ARG GRE NZL
17		 JPN IRE NC 0
Team Jordan Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX GBR
Ret
2008 Paddon Direct Team Green Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX SWE ARG GRE TUR FIN NZL
4		 JPN GBR 21st 5
2010 Pirelli Star Driver Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX SWE MEX JOR NZL
1		 JPN
2		 3rd 97
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X FIN
3		 GER
2		 FRA
7		 GBR
3
2011 Hayden Paddon Subaru Impreza WRX STi SWE POR
1		 ARG
1		 FIN
1		 AUS
1		 ESP
8		 GBR 1st 104

SWRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SWRC Points
2012 Hayden Paddon Škoda Fabia S2000 MON SWE
4		 POR
1		 NZL
1		 FIN
Ret		 GBR
7		 FRA
Ret		 ESP
5		 4th 78

WRC-2 results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos. Points
2013 Hayden Paddon Škoda Fabia S2000 MON
 SWE
 MEX
 POR
 ARG
 GRE
 ITA
 FIN
3		 GER
3		 AUS
5		 FRA
 ESP
 GBR
 13th 40

European Rally Championship results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pos. Points
2013 Symtech Racing Ford Fiesta S2000 JÄN
 LIE
 CAN
 AZO
 COR
 YPR
Ret		 ROM
 ZLÍ
 POL
 CRO
 SAN
 VAL
 62nd 5

References

  1. ↑ http://haydenpaddon.com/hayden
  2. ↑ http://www.ewrc-results.com/profile.php?profile=2157
  3. ↑ http://haydenpaddon.com/news?news=44
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Hayden_Paddon&oldid=722836086"