User Guide: MotorSport New Zealand website
MotorSport New Zealand launched their new-look website on Thursday, 23 December. The new design gives the website a much-needed facelift and mobile device capability. The menus have also been streamlined to make navigating through information easier. For regular users of the website, you will notice...
First rally winner owes much to Eastern Southland Car Club
The 2025 Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally on Saturday 2 August marks 50 years of rallying for the Eastern Southland Car Club. Their first rally was the 1975 Gore Rally, the first Special Stage rally ever held south of Christchurch. The winner of that event...
Father & Son Rally Challenge champs back for Wyndham
The winners of the inaugural Barry Robinson Memorial Rally in 2023, father and son combination Andrew and Hayden Graves of Gore, return this year as top seeds in the rally scheduled for Saturday 2 August. They also arrive at the event as the current New...
A Rally in a cardboard box
As the Eastern Southland Car Club prepare for the Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally on Saturday 2 August it will mark 50 years of rallying for the club and for just over half of that storied history Craig Jessop has been working behind the scenes...
Townshend wins but Trophy Series prize goes to Zeltwanger
Lee Zeltwanger followed up his earlier win with another podium finish to become the inaugural Toyota 86 Trophy Series champion and secure the next step in what is proving to be a promising career. A conservative third place finish in Sunday afternoon’s 25 lap series finale...
Zeltwanger poised for title – but all to play for in double points finale
A great start from the outside of the front row netted Lee Zeltwanger another race victory in the Toyota 86 Trophy Series earlier on Sunday – leaving him with one hand on the inaugural title and just one race to go. Zeltwanger edged away from...
Zeltwanger two races away from glory
Lee Zeltwanger will be hoping for a drama-free weekend as the clock counts down to the final round of the inaugural Toyota 86 Trophy Series at Taupo International Motorsport Park this Saturday and Sunday. Zeltwanger has been the revelation of the four round winter series,...
Ayson back with new car for Wyndham Rally
Gore rally driver Derek Ayson contested the last two Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally’s in a Ford Fiesta Proto owned by good mate David Kirk while his latest rally car, an Opel Manta, was being built. This year he will get to drive the Opel...
Who are the NZRC’s fastest track competitors?
Not surprisingly championship rivals Ben Hunt and Robbie Stokes are the kings of tarmac tracks so far in the 2025 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship but the chasing pack makes for interesting reading. Some names you might not expect to be as high...
Jones and Thomson focus on securing first win in Japan
Zeal Jones and Bayden Thomson will press the reset button and aim for their first outright win when the Morizo Challenge Cup rally series heads into its final three rounds. Round five didn’t exactly go as planned with Jones retiring from Rally Kamuy with damage sustained...
50 Years of Rally memories
When the Barry Robinson Memorial Wyndham Rally takes place on Saturday 2 August it will not only celebrate the legacy of Robinson, an iconic rally driver from the area, but it will also mark 50 years of rallying for the Eastern Southland Car Club who...