OSCA SUPER SALOONS HEADLINE BIG TERETONGA WEEKEND
A great field of OSCA Super Saloons will headline a great weekend of motor racing presented by Downer at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend. The OSCA category encourages kiwi ingenuity and the result is a wide range of big, fast, noisy exciting saloons. Two Southlanders...
SILVER FERN RALLY’S SHORTEST DAY PACKS HEAVY PUNCH
Day five of this year’s NZ Silver Fern Rally might have been the shortest in terms of special stages – three – and stage kilometres – just 84 – but it packed a serous punch. For a start, overnight leader Roger Chilman and co-driver Max Freeman...
South Island Formula 1600 rivals will target young Bethune at Teretonga
Auckland’s Josh Bethune has a narrow lead heading into the third round of the South Island Formula 1600 Championship in Invercargill this weekend. While Bethune may have set the pace in the opening two rounds, it has not been straight forward with a group of...
CHILMAN KEEPS HIS COOL TO TAKE SILVER FERN RALLY LEAD
Roger Chilman and co-driver Max Freeman (Ford Escort RS1800) from Great Britain are the new leaders of this year’s NZ Silver Fern Rally after another drama-filled day in the central North Island today. Day 1 pace-setters Meirion Evans and co-driver Lestyn Williams from Wales started out...
Smith to run Castrol Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport
Up and coming Australian single seater racer Thomas Smith is the latest driver to be confirmed for the 2019 Castrol Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand. The Melbourne 16 year old will drive in the five round championship for former McLaren F1 Chief Mechanic Stephen Giles...
Asian F3 clean sweep for Lawson
Rising New Zealand single-seater racing star Liam Lawson made an emphatic debut in Asia, totally dominating the final round of the Formula 3 championship at Sepang. Lawson made a clean sweep of all three races, top in both qualifying sessions, recorded the fastest lap in all...
BATTERED AND BRUISED BUT EVANS’ ESCORT IS BACK LEADING SILVER FERN RALLY
Battered and bruised it might be but the hard-driven Ford Escort RS1800 of Welshman Meirion Evans and co-driver Lestyn Williams is back on top of the leader board on this year’s NZ Silver Fern Rally after another long day in the central North Island today. Defending...
Closing minutes heartbreak for the Dayle ITM Mike Racing team
As is often the case in a three-hour endurance race, the war of attrition takes it toll and the Dayle ITM Mike Racing Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 fell victim to a mechanical failure, in the final half hour of the New Zealand Endurance Championship. The driveshaft gave...
ROBINSON AND COLLIS RETAIN SILVER FERN RALLY LEAD ON MARATHON SECOND DAY
Matthew Robinson and co-driver Sam Collis (Ford Escort Mk 2) have retained their early 2018 NZ Silver Fern Rally lead on the second day of competition in the King Country and north-east Taranaki today. The British pair again won the majority of stages (4 of the...
ROBINSON & COLLIS HEAD SILVER FERN RALLY LEADERBOARD AFTER EVENTFUL FIRST DAY
British pair Matthew Robinson and Sam Collis (Ford Escort Mk 2) have taken an early lead in this year’s NZ Silver Fern Rally after an eventful – and for Robinson very tiring – first day in the Waikato today. “I’ve never been through stages so twisty...