{"id":571263,"date":"2026-08-17T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571263\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:10:12","slug":"2027-national-championship-calendar-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571263\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 national championship calendar confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                \t\t\t\t\t\t2027 national championship calendar confirmed<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/751549599_1443175787844660_6495687602107858570_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\"  \/>The 2027 calendar for the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship has been confirmed with a similar look to this year.<\/p>\n<p>The same six events have been locked in, with the same North Island\/South Island split.<\/p>\n<p>The only shift sees International Rally of Whangarei move later in the year, back to being the final round of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>The season will kick off with the Otago Rally on April 9-11 before a sizeable break ahead of Rally Canterbury on June 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Barry Robinson Memorial Rally Southland will take place on July 17 before a second successive year in the Hawke\u2019s Bay with that event set to run on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>Rally Hawke\u2019s Bay is pending organisers commitment to run after evaluating this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>The championship continues with round five in the Bay of Plenty on October 2 before the season concludes at the two-day Whangarei event on October 29-31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be able to keep a familiar schedule in place next year and to confirm the calendar this early in the year,\u201d championship coordinator Blair Bartels said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sport is fortunate to have such strong events, led by great organising teams, and it was a pretty straight-forward decision to assemble this calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MotorSport New Zealand has approved the 2027 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pleasing to see stability and continuity for the 2027 New Zealand Rally Championship,\u201d said MotorSport New Zealand President, Deborah Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecuring the same events as this current season give organisers certainty to plan ahead and build on the success of their 2026 events and aim for growth in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2027 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship<\/p>\n<p>9-11 April Rally Otago<br \/>6 June Rally Canterbury<br \/>17 July Rally Southland<br \/>28 August Rally Hawkes Bay (TBC)<br \/>2 October Rally Bay of Plenty<br \/>29-31 October Rally Whangarei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2027 national championship calendar confirmed The 2027 calendar for the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-571263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}