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...
Hot pairing for opening 86 Enduro
Officially announced today in Auckland is the driver line up from Connor Adam Motorsport for the first of the two stand-alone endurance championship series races for the Toyota 86 type cars. These events are designed to encourage current 86 drivers to team up with a...
Dual endurance racing events come to Pukekohe Park this Labour Weekend
Pukekohe Park Raceway is the epicentre of Endurance Racing this coming Labour weekend. Saturday sees the Golden Homes North Island Endurance Series with both 1 hour and 3 hour races whilst on Sunday 25th the Historic Racing Club will stage the 2020 Edition of the...
Three-Hour Series title to Heart of Racing Team as Foster/Reid win South Island Endurance race in Timaru
The Heart of Racing Aston Martin pairing of Alex Riberas and Darren Kelly have won the 2020 Carter’s Tyres South Island Three-Hour Series title after finishing second at the third and final round on Saturday. Timaru International Raceway hosted the finale which saw current...
Martin Dippie takes title while Schelp wins South Island Endurance One Hour thriller in Timaru
Martin Dippie is the overall title winner of the Carter’s Tyres South Island Endurance One-Hour Series after a finale thriller in Timaru. Dippie (Porsche 991 GT3RS) headed into the third round tied on points with father and son pairing of Garry and Ben Derrick...
MotorSport New Zealand statement on Admiral Road Hill climb
MotorSport New Zealand can confirm two spectators were involved in an incident at a motorsport event on Saturday, 17 October. During a hill climb event on Admiral Road in Gladstone, the two spectators were standing behind a farm fence on private property when a car...
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing NZ confirms biggest ever NZ motorsport prize fund
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing New Zealand (TGRNZ) will enhance the Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship’s status as the number one stepping stone for up and coming Kiwi racing talent with the biggest ever prize pool for a New Zealand motorsport series. Seventeen up and coming racers were...
South Island Three Hour finale heats up with Waite/O’Donnell Audi R8 joining the field at Timaru
This Saturday sees the third and final round of the 2020 Carter’s Tyres South Island Endurance Three Hour Series at Timaru International Raceway. The competition has markedly increased over the series and joining the field is another Audi R8 driven by the very quick...