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TARGA HAWKES BAY: OVERALL HONOURS TO MC KENZIE AND SAYERS

After managing a lead that they held from midway through the first day, Haydn McKenzie and co-driver Matt Sayers won the 2019 Targa Hawkes Bay tarmac motor rally in their Mitsubishi Evo X 4WD.

The rally was held over three days from Friday, 17 May to Sunday, 19 May. This year’s event was organized in association with new naming-rights sponsor The Piako Group — the Morrinsville-based, Bay of Plenty–wide Mitsubishi car and Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Valtra, and Challenger tractor dealership owner. It was held in cool, crisp, but largely fine weather through the roads across the lower Waikato on Friday, the central Bay of Plenty on Saturday, and Hawke’s Bay on

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