Hayden Paddon

Hayden Paddon

Nation:	New Zealand
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally New Zealand 2007
Last rally:	Rally Mexico 2016
Co-driver:	John Kennard
Team:	Hyundai Motorsport N
Vehicle:	Hyundai i20 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 51 1 3 15th
Points:	178
Status: After rally 4 of 14, season 2016

Hayden Paddon (born April 20, 1987 in Geraldine ) is a New Zealand rally driver. At the 2011 Rally Argentina , Paddon won his first world championship points with a ninth place. Hayden Paddon won the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC) rally class in 2011 . Paddon has been employed by the Hyundai factory team since 2014 .

Career

Hayden Paddon, whose father was also a rally driver, began karting as a child. Paddon first took part in a rally at the age of 15. From 2006 he started in the New Zealand rally championship. With a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII , he won both the rookie and the junior class. In 2007 Paddon started a world championship run for the first time. After the New Zealand rally , he also drove the Great Britain rally . With a 49th place and one retirement, there was no success for now. In the same year he missed the New Zealand rally championship title by just one point. Paddon won the New Zealand rally championship in 2008. With a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX he drove the New Zealand Rally 2008 and finished it in 13th place overall, which resulted in fourth place in the PWRC class .

In 2009 Paddon was a second time champion in the New Zealand rally championship. He also qualified for the Pirelli Star Driver Asia Pacific Final . There, with a single start in the 2009 World Rally Championship , he not only achieved the PSD final victory and ninth place overall at the Rally Australia , he was also first in the PWRC class. So he received a Pirelli Stardriver scholarship for the next season . This enabled him to take part in six rounds of the PWRC World Rally Championship free of charge in 2010 .

In 2010 , Paddon participated in the six above-mentioned events. He won the PWRC class at his home rally in New Zealand . He finished second in the Rally Germany and the Rally Japan and third in Finland and Great Britain . At the Corsica Rally he scored six points for the championship. With these six runs he reached third place overall in the 2010 PWRC championship . He won the 2011 PWRC championship with four overall victories. In 2012 and 2013 , Paddon started in the SWRC and WRC2 with moderate success.

In 2014 , Hyundai brought him into the top WRC rally class for six world championship races. He achieved the best result at the Rally Australia with sixth place, in the world championship he was fourteenth with 19 points. In the 2015 season , again driving the Hyundai i20 WRC , Paddon climbed the podium for the first time in his career in second place at the Rally Sardinia .

Hayden Paddon and co-driver John Kennard win the 2016 Argentina Rally , making them the first New Zealanders to win a World Championship run in the World Rally Championship .

Single results

WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
2007	Paddon Direct Green Team	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRL	GBR	-	-
													49
	Team Jordan	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
																		DNF
2008	Paddon Direct Green Team	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	JOR	ITA	GRE	DOOR	FIN	DEU	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR		-	-
													12
2009	Paddon paddon	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	IRL	NOR	CYP	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	POLE	FIN	OUT	ESP	GBR					-	-
												9
2010	Pirelli Star Driver	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X	SWE	MEX	JOR	DOOR	NZL	POR	BUL	FIN	DEU	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR				-	-
						26th		20th		21st	19th		35		19th
	Hayden Paddon	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
							14th					12
2011	Hayden Paddon	Subaru Impreza STi	SWE	MEX	POR	JOR	ITA	ARG	GRE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				10	18th
					11			9		19th		6th		34
		Subaru Impreza STi R4
															13
2012	Hayden Paddon	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	DEU	GBR	FRA	ITA	ESP				-	-
				23		16			12	DNF		26th	DNF		20th
2013	Hayden Paddon	Škoda Fabia S2000	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				8th	17th
										11	8th	16
	M-Sport World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC
														8th
2014	Hyundai Motorsport N	Hyundai i20 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				19th	14th
								12	8th	8th		6th		9	10
2015	Hyundai World Rally Team	Hyundai i20 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR				84	9
				5								5			5
	Hyundai Motorsport N	Hyundai i20 WRC
					17th	16	8th	2	5	DNF	9		5	6th
2016	Hyundai World Rally Team	Hyundai i20 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	OUT			57	2
			25th	2	5	1			3	5

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Hayden Paddon , accessed July 24, 2015

Web links

Commons : Hayden Paddon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website