Extreme Offroading at Round Two of the National 4×4 Trials Series
Pemberton Corner. Never heard of it? This is where the Pemberton family set up home and established the Manawatu’s northernmost village way back in the late 1800’s. The village has…
The public face of 4wd competition, everyone who has ever engaged Low4 needs to watch at least one round of a NZ Trials series.
Once televised extensively, and still appearing on the big screen courtesy of the Cowper Trucks/ Suzuki Extreme event, many people regard this as the pinnacle of offroading in NZ, but most in the Winch Challenge community would disagree.
Big motors, big horsepower, big hills, big tyres, and big crashes – a live event delivers an experience TV can never fully match.
The concept is simple: a series of seemingly impossible challenges, and the team that gets the furtherest through each of them wins the round, and the team that gets the highest places through the series wins the championship.
With individual wheel brakes operated by the navigator, 4 wheel steering, tuneable engine computers, driver, navigator and vehicle really have to come together on the day!
Pemberton Corner. Never heard of it? This is where the Pemberton family set up home and established the Manawatu’s northernmost village way back in the late 1800’s. The village has…
NZ TRIALS SERIES 2019/20 – ROUND 1 (Eastern Bays Twin Diff Club) The BOP towns motto is “Everything under the sun,” and as the host of round 1 of the…
Transmission issues and badly damaged diffs were just some of the hurdles faced by competitors Manawatu Extreme 4×4 Trial event.
The Trials series kicked off on November 10 with the Valley 4WD Club hosting competitors battling in out at the NZ Trials Series Round 1.