Record McLaren F5000 entry at circuit named to honour NZ motor racing great
It seems entirely fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24)...
Locals vie for Begg Trophy as SI F1600 series return to Teretonga
This weekend sees the return of the South Island Formula 1600 Series to Teretonga Park in Invercargill as their fourth-round gets underway. On the line is the Begg Trophy for Class 3 cars (pre-1989) and it will be a case of local drivers competing...
Action galore at Teretonga Park
Action is the name of the game at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend. Three days of fantastic action in fact, starting on Friday 15 January and extending right through the weekend as Drift South bring their spectacular show south alongside a programme of motor...
Liam Foster slashes Chris Symon’s NZ Formula First Championship lead at Taupō
Liam Foster has slashed Chris Symon’s points lead by over half at the latest round of the 2020-21 Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship at Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park. Taupō played host to round four of the 2020-21 Championship for races 10, 11 and 12 at...
Sharp undeterred by challenges at Taupo
Christchurch single seater driver Louis Sharp is still confident of getting on the podium this season despite the challenges that the team faced at the Hi-Q Components 2020/21 NZ Formula First Championship over the weekend. The Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in Taupo held the...
Andre Heimgartner joins star-studded NZGP field
Kelly Racing V8 Supercar driver André Heimgartner is the latest racing ace to sign up for the 2021 New Zealand Grand Prix. Competing against generations of great drivers with a chance to put his name on the trophy is a bucket list item ticked for...
Brendon Leitch a real factor for NZGP honours
Invercargill's Brendon Leitch will take the wheel of a Castrol Toyota Racing Series car one more time when he steps aboard to try and add his name to the New Zealand Grand Prix Trophy later this month. Twenty-five year old Leitch is the most experienced TRS...
Galaxies and Thunderbolts – a celebration of Ford’s mid-‘60s British Saloon Cars at Historic GP meeting
When Dunedin’s Leon Hallett completes the long haul north to the fifth annual Taupō Historic GP meeting over the Wellington Provincial Anniversary weekend, 23/24 January, his meticulously-built 1963 Ford Galaxie will join a huge - unprecedented - 39 car grid of historic muscle and saloon...
Drift South action part of January fare at Teretonga Park
Motor racing action comes to Teretonga Park in Invercargill from 15-17 January and one of the major attractions of the event will be the appearance of Drift South who will hold Round 3 of their championship alongside a full weekend of racing on the country’s...
Driver comfort and safety enhanced with REAL Equipe TRS partnership
This season’s Toyota FT60 cars will be fitted with some of the best and safest racing seats in the world following confirmation that UK company Real Equipe will become Official Supplier Partners for the 2021 Castrol Toyota Racing Series. The partnership will see REAL custom race...