Paddon ready for ERC opener in Portugal
Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon and co-driver John Kennard are as ready for the opening round of the 2023 FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) when it gets underway on Friday evening in Fafe in northern Portugal. The rally, ERC Rally Serras de Fafe e Felgueiras,...
Star-studded lineup for NZ Hillclimb Championships
The Winmax Brake Pads MotorSport New Zealand Goldstar Hillclimb Championships has attracted star-studded entrants for its one-round shootout in March. Organised by South Otago Car Club, the Goldstar title will compete over two days in the Lawrence region. The tarmac being day one, on Tuapeka...
Knowles and Crosbie resume South Island F1600 title battle at Timaru this weekend
The battle resumes this weekend in Timaru for the 2022/23 Yokohama South Island Formula 1600 Championship title with a tight battle at the top between four contenders. Southland’s Alex Crosbie has a slender 9-point lead over Christchurch’s Blake Knowles with Daniel Brown and Dylan...
WORLD CHAMPION BMX STAR SARAH WALKER TO TAKE ON OTAGO RALLY
Olympic medallist and three-time World Champion BMX racer Sarah Walker will make her rallying debut at this year’s Otago Rally as guest driver. Walker, New Zealand's first Olympic BMX medallist, who won Silver in 2012 and is a long-standing member of the Athletes’ Commission of...
Callum Hedge to race FR Americas
After coming agonisingly close to winning the Formula Regional motor racing title in New Zealand recently, Callum Hedge is about to launch a bid to win the American based championship which starts next weekend in Louisiana. The 19-year-old Aucklander finished runner-up in the Castrol Toyota FR...
2023 Winmax Junior Drivers Announced
Winmax Brake Pads and Paddon Racing Group have joined forces for another year to support 6 up-and-coming Kiwi motorsport competitors through the Winmax Junior Driver programme. Founded in 2021, the Winmax Junior Driver Program is a collaboration between Winmax Brake Pads and Hayden Paddons’,...
Cyclone Gabrielle’s effects still being felt as F5000 field prepares for penultimate 2022/23 Series Round at Pukekohe this weekend
Before ex-tropical cyclone Gabrielle cut a swathe from Northland and Auckland down through the East Coast of the North Island, as far south as Hawke’s Bay on Monday night and Tuesday morning a week ago now, the organisers of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000...
Top result for Brendon Leitch’s Leipert Motorsport in Asian Le Mans Series
Brendon Leitch and Leipert Motorsport have finished a credible fourth overall in the GT category of the 2023 Asian Le Mans Series after two top results in Abu Dhabi over the weekend. Driving a factory-supported Lamborghini Huracan GT3, Leitch, along with teammates - top...
Blackmun wins special race at Star Insure Classic SpeedFest
Todd Blackmun was the inaugural winner of the Brian Crosbie Memorial Trophy at the Star Insure Classic SpeedFest at Teretonga Park, Invercargill, this weekend. The trophy remembers one of Southland’s best saloon car drivers who passed away recently. It was donated by Brian’s family and...
Jubilant Douglas wins 2023 YACademy Winter Series
Christchurch’s Jacob Douglas has won the two-round 2023 YACademy Winter Series in the USA after winning five out of six races with his Exclusive Autosport team. The single seater series was held over two meetings at two separate road courses attracting a competitive field...