Posted Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 9:28pm

FROM OLYMPIC GOLD TO RALLYING A SUBARU IMPREZA

In sporting terms, New Zealand is famous for four things: rallying, rugby, rowing and sailing. Two of those entities will collide when the New Zealand Rally Championship gets underway next month on the Otago Rally.
If you’re into your rowing, Hamish Bond will need no introduction. His Olympic gold medals (London 2012 coxless pair, Rio de Janeiro 2016 coxless pair and Tokyo 2020 in the eight division), and six gold medals in the World Rowing Championship do that talking for him.
But he’s set to make a very big introduction to the rallying world when he pilots Jeff Judd’s Magnum Motorsport Subaru Impreza GC8 on his very first stage rally. A genius in a boat, it’s time to see if he’s a genius in a rally car too.