Endurance driver joins Toyota Racing Series field for 2020
LMP2 and LMP3 endurance race driver Henning Enqvist is an intriguing addition to the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand. The Swedish driver will join Giles Motorsport for the campaign, which gets underway in January and runs for five consecutive weekends before concluding with...
Summer season of motorsport blasts off this weekend
Mainstream motorsport gets back on full throttle this weekend when Pukekohe Park bursts into action with the first event in the Speed Works MotorSport NZ Championship series. The top New Zealand championship categories all build their calendars around or within the Speed Works calendar and this...
Championship wide open in RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes
The V8 Utes are back for the Speed Works MotorSport NZ Championship season and it’s anyone’s guess who could take the championship. The championship - entering its 13th season this weekend - is now the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes Championship and will once again see...
Tony Richards Toyota to run Flynn Mullany in Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship
Fresh from the recent FIA Motorsports Games, 17-year-old Waimauku racer Flynn Mullany is aiming to make a mark in this season's Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship. The former karter and 2K Cup racer will compete in the Tony Richards Toyota entry and joins a field of...
Heimgartner Makes BNT V8 Return
Andre Heimgartner will return to the BNT V8s field this weekend when the season gets underway at Pukekohe. The 2017/18 BNT V8s Champion will line up on the grid for Hamilton Motorsports, alongside teammate Lance Hughes. Heimgartner has previously partnered with Hughes in the New...
GTRNZ set for sizzling summer season
The TradeZone GTRNZ series is set for a season of hot racing across all of its classes this coming summer season. Nationwide industrial retailer TradeZone New Zealand will again join the series as its naming rights partner. Featuring some of the country’s fastest collection of cars,...
Chelsea Herbert to contest 2020 Castrol TRS series
New Zealand’s Chelsea Herbert is the first Kiwi to be confirmed for the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series, and only the fifth female driver in the sixteen year history of the championship. Today’s confirmation that Herbert will run the full five round championship with Giles Motorsport...
Penrose wins Wigram Cup with lights to flag victory at South Island F1600 meeting
Canterbury’s James Penrose has won the Wigram Cup 12-lap feature race at the third round of the South Island Formula 1600 Championship. One of the largest F1600 fields for many years saw 32-cars qualifying for the three-race Wigram Revival meeting held at the Mike Pero...
Andy Higgins races to dominant victory on Asian Le Mans Series debut
Superlative race performances from India’s Arjun Maini, Canada’s John Farano and New Zealand’s Andy Higgins assured RLR MSport of the LMP2 Am Trophy victory in the season-opening 4 Hours of Shanghai that places the British team at the head of the fight for an automatic...
Pole and podium kickstart Nick Foster’s Asian Le Mans title challenge
Were it not for one small issue, Eurasia Motorsport should have won the opening round of the Asian Le Mans Series, but as it was second position and pole position was still a very solid start to the season today (24 November 2019) at Shanghai...