Christmas has come early for Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon with Citroen inviting him to join their team for the 2015 World Rally Championship. Paddon and co-driver John Kennard now have two offers on the table - one from Hyundai who they joined this year for their first season in a WRCar, and another from one of the sport’s most successful teams in recent years, Citroen.
"We have two offers on the table from two different teams, it is certainly quite humbling. It probably complicates the process a bit more but it means maybe we did something right this year," Paddon told TVNZ.
"We're just working through the finer details at the moment and hopefully in the next couple of weeks it will become apparent what we're doing.”
Whilst the Citroen offer must certainly be appealing given the team’s recent successes, Paddon says he isn’t discounting staying with Hyundai.
"We have to think about what’s going to give us the best chance to be competitive in the future but that’s all part of the decision making process as well,” he said.
"We want to be World Champions one day. It’s a long way way away yet but next we want to try and be fighting for the podium later in the year and then following that, then start going for event victories and then from there you can be in a position to fight for the championship.”
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