From the commencement of the 1990 Season MotorSport NZ first encouraged class registers and organiser groups to seek official sanctioning for the competitions they were running.
With the rewrite of the National Sporting Code in 1997 and the subsequent release of the sports strategic plan Towards 2010 in April 2000 the registers and organiser groups have now started to embrace the opportunities sanctioning brings.
This section records for history the Rally champions of this tier of motorsport competitions.