Former New Zealand Rally Champion Andrew Hawkeswood, of Auckland, was the last winner of the Rally of Southland in 2004. Between June 21 and 22, 64 rally drivers are about to descend on the province’s rural roads when the Southern Lights Rally returns to the province for the first time in 20 years. PHOTO: EUAN CAMERON
Ripping around gravel roads at breakneck speed is what will be needed for one of the nation’s top rally drivers to take out the…