Crushing Payne win extends series lead at Manfeild
Championship leader Matthew Payne raced to a comfortable win in the first race of the weekend at the final round of the 2021 Castrol Toyota Racing Series today. Starting from the front with a time that would have put him on pole for the hotly-contested NZ...
Grand Prix weekend gets thumbs up from broadcasters
Motorsport promoter Speed Works is confident its decision to stream its events live on the Spark Sport platform, with a free to air highlights package on Three, is the right one. It follows confirmation by both broadcasters that the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix was...
Billy Frazer latest success of Road to Indy partnership
Billy Frazer is the latest Kiwi to head stateside to take the next steps of his career and despite the long shadow cast by the COVID-19 pandemic, his move to USF2000 is a great success for the Castrol Toyota Racing Series and Road to Indy...
Dayle ITM racers look to raise the game
Dayle ITM Racing's duo of Christina Orr-West and Ronan Murphy are hoping for an upturn in fortune this weekend at the third round of the 2021 Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon. Murphy and Orr-West currently sit seventh and eighth in the...
Still plenty to learn for Louis Sharp at Manfeild this weekend
Louis Sharp and his Track Tec Racing team head to Manfield Circuit Chris Amon in Feilding this weekend for the sixth round of the 2020/21 Hi-Q Components New Zealand Formula First Championship. Sharp returns to one of his favourite North Island circuits where...
Can anyone halt the reign of Payne?
The 2021 Castrol Toyota Series will be remembered as being unique in the COVID-19 world, but it has also seen the emergence of a major new Kiwi racing talent in Matthew Payne. Against a field of established stars at the New Zealand Grand Prix, Payne made...
New Naming Rights Sponsor For NZ Touring Cars
After a long association with BNT Automotive, NZ Touring Cars, which in the past has widely been known as the BNT V8s, is rebranding. “We have been very privileged to have received support from our corporate partner BNT over many Years and we would like to...
Production Racing Championship revived for Super Production
The Production Racing Championship will be revived as part of the recently announced Super Production series. The decision was confirmed by the board of MotorSport New Zealand at their latest meeting. Super Production, has evolved on the Production Racing Championship concept of the early-2000s, to encompass...
Breakthrough weekend for challengers in Best Bars Toyota 86?
Championship leader Simon Evans and up and coming star Ryan Wood have had it all their own way so far in the first two rounds of the Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship, but it could all change this weekend at Manfeild for round three. Wood won...
2022 Taupō Historic GP to celebrate Jaguar and Daimler
The 2022 Taupō Historic GP has already been inscribed in the motorsport calendar and it will celebrate Jaguar and Daimler, organisers have announced. Continuing with its now-traditional date on the Wellington Province anniversary holiday weekend (in 2022, the fourth weekend in January, Saturday and Sunday 22nd...