He has won more outright championships and unlimited class titles than any other New Zealand racer, and now Manukau’s Tony McCall has become the most successful driver in the history of the Woodhill 100. 
He won this year’s race over King’s Birthday Weekend, taking his seventh title in the race. McCall and Ian Foster – arguably the sport’s New Zealand founder – had been locked on six Woodhill wins each for years. McCall’s 2026 victory puts him one race ahead, and he is keen to add one more Woodhill trophy to his cabinet.
The McCall-Foster rivalry dates back to last century, and the pair fought for outright championship wins and went wheel to wheel in successive New Zealand Offroad Grand Priz meets at Te Atatu, but was always at its hottest at Woodhill. 
The forest-based ‘sprint -enduro’ is New Zealand’s oldest offroad race and is also the fastest, toughest enduro in Kiwi racing. It originally ran at a distance of 100 miles – 160km – but has more recently run up to 180km. On a course in the northern section of the forest that is equal parts high speed logging roads and rough sand tracks carved up by years of motocross and offroad racing events.
Top unlimited-class cars like those of McCall and key rivals Daynom Templeman and Rene Sciarone get fast enough in the sand that they skip from top to top over ‘bombhole’ hollows; everyone else faces a rough ride into and out of dips and hollows that get deeper every year.
On the big fast logging roads, the unlimited-class cars sprint ahead. McCall’s Chev LS-powered single seater will hit 180km/h.
Daynom Templeman in a bigger American unlimited-class car took pole in qualifying, McCall slotting in on P2. 
As the race started, the pair shot clear of the 29-strong pack with Templeman slowly pulling clear. McCall played a waiting game, sitting back to avoid being pelted with rocks. Behind them a three-way battle for third developed among class three racers Mike Gibson, Connor Nicklin and Aiden Hall. 
Noah Hutchison was also in the mix, though his Yamaha UTV was at a serious speed disadvantage on the faster sections.
Aiden Hall, contesting his first Woodhill, went out with a broken CV joint. Connor Nicklin got past Mike Gibson to be third, and Noah Hutchison also began reeling in Gibson.
Then, with two laps remaining, McCall began to attack Templeman’s lead, and the latter went out with broken steering. 
McCall’s path to the win was clear. Behind him, Hutchison overtook Nicklin to be second.
But the glory belonged to McCall, who adds seven Woodhill wins to his unmatched tally of unlimited class and outright national championship wins and is now undeniably the most successful driver in the sport.
The attrition rate was as high as ever. Only 15 entrants were classified as finishers.