Louis Sharp buoyed with debut in NZ Formula First Championship
Christchurch’s kartsport champion Louis Sharp has made the successful jump into a national single seater championship, having competed in the opening round of the 2020/21 Hi-Q Components New Zealand Formula First Championship. The 13 -year-old finished seventh overall and second fastest rookie at...
Evans and Giltrap latest high profile pairing for Toyota enduros
Another high profile addition to the forthcoming TOYOTA GAZOO Racing TR86 Endurance championship has been confirmed with the news that up and coming racer Marco Giltrap will team up with three time BNT V8s champion Simon Evans for the two round mini-series. Sixteen year old Giltrap...
Lawson just misses Super Licence qualification for Formula One
Liam Lawson should have qualified for a Formula One Super Licence but an administrative blunder has left him four points short. The European Formula Open championship he competed in last year has only recently been ruled out of qualification points. The Red Bull Junior...
Race and Rally action live-streamed this weekend
Two livestreams will be running this weekend across multiple disciplines of the sport. Live-streaming technology has advanced so much in recent years that it has become a popular way of providing cost effective coverage of motorsport events. MotorSport New Zealand are lucky to be streaming the...
Strong crop of young rookies to join NZ Formula First Championship
A seven-strong field of rookies will join the Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship grid for the 2020-21 season. The season gets underway this weekend at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon as part of the Manawatu Car Club’s OctoberFAST event. The championship is renowned for developing young...
TCR to headline new Super Production series
TCR New Zealand is set to get racing in 2021 as it forms a key part of a new Super Production series. The new series will encompass high-performance factory-built production race cars such as current spec TCR, Ferrari Challenge and Porsche 911 Cup cars along...
Racing World Podcast #17
In this week’s show we have BREAKING NEWS. ANDRE HEIMGARTNER IS MOVING - and we get to look at his car! A candid and frank Zoom chat with Andre reveals just what is going on in his life at the moment and a look back at his Bathurst 1000...
Engines ready to roar for 2020-2021 championship season
The 2020 domestic championship motorsport season gets underway next weekend at Hampton Downs with Speed Works' first event of the new season and it’s all revved up to be an absolute cracker. Six of the best New Zealand classes and eighteen races on Saturday 31st October will...
Louis Sharp ready to go for first round of the NZ Formula First Championship this weekend
This weekend sees the opening round of the 2020/21 Hi-Q Components New Zealand Formula First Championship and Christchurch’s Louis Sharp making the step up to competing in a national single seater series. The eight-round championship gets underway at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon in Feilding, 24-25 October,...
NZ Formula First Championship gets underway this weekend at Manfeild
The 2020-21 Hi-Q Components NZ Formula First Championship gets underway this weekend at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon in Feilding. Racing at the Manawatu Car Club’s OctoberFAST event will be the first of the championship since their scheduled final round was cancelled earlier in 2020 due...