Paddon signs with Hyundai Motorsport for seven round WRC

Today is the day we have waited and worked towards for many years. I'm am thrilled to announce we have signed with Hyundai Motorsport, to contest 7 events of this year's World Rally Championship, driving in a Hyundai i20 WRC. We will be entered under Hyundai Motorsport N and our first event will be Rally Italy in June. From there on in, we will compete in all but 1 event until the end of the season. It's also awesome to know that we will be competing at Rally Australia with Hyundai.

This is an amazing opportunity and a journey many people have been apart of in getting to this point. Now we will make the most of this to try and build our career at the elite level of the WRC and continue growing with Hyundai. We are also now based in Frankfurt, Germany, near the team so that we can be involved and learn as much as possible.

It will be a learning year for us and although we will have our own targets and objectives, it is also important to grow and work with the team to continue their development. We will be surrounded by very experienced team personnel and of course the other Hyundai drivers, so a great chance for us to learn as much as possible and for me to develop as a driver. Our first taste of the i20 WRC car is in April during testing - I'm already counting down the days!

You can see some of todays announcements in photos on both our facebook and twitter pages http://facebook.com/haydenpaddonwrc https://twitter.com/HaydenPaddon

We have also launched our new http://haydenpaddon.com website today thanks to 1Groupwhich includes some cool new features. You will also find there in the latest news section, the press release from todays announcement with all the details.

Thank you for your continued support and this is going to be a big year for us all. As usual we will keep you posted along every step.