Matt Summerfield top seed for South Canterbury
South Island rallying returns this weekend with the South Canterbury Rally based out of Timaru, and is the second Mainland Rally Series event for the season since the calendar was suspended earlier this year due to COVID-19. However top seed Matt Summerfield says the disrupted calendar...
Andrew Lawrie takes points at Teretonga ClubSport event
Andrew Lawrie of Invercargill was the big winner at Round 2 of the Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport ClubSport Championship at Teretonga Park on Sunday. Lawrie, in his Mitsubishi Mirage, won the Motorkhana event in the morning from Craig Allan in a Honda Prelude with...
Rankleburn Rally returns
The Rankleburn Rally is on again with a field of cars heading to the Rankleburn Forest in West Otago on Saturday 10 October. The event is organised by the Eastern Southland Car Club with support from MLT / Heartland Hotels and Ernslaw One Limited. Last year’s winners,...
Toyota New Zealand confirms boost for Kiwi racers
Toyota New Zealand has announced today a COVID-19 support package of up to $500,000 to help Kiwi up and coming single-seater drivers, and to continue their support of motorsport in New Zealand. The fund will be managed by the Kiwi Driver Fund. Focused on finding New...
Racing World Podcast #13
In this episode, we go ‘LIVE’ via ZOOM with LIAM LAWSON talking F3 and his season just completed. Late at night for him in Towcester in the UK, which is just down the road from Silverstone in fact. Don’t tell anybody, please, but he is actually in...
Shane van Gisbergen confirmed for Battle of Jacks Ridge
Kiwi Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen has committed to entering the Battle of Jacks Ridge in November and will take on the best rally drivers in the country at their own game. The 2016 Supercars champion has been one of the most successful drivers of the...
Manuell makes it home but it couldn’t have been closer
A relieved Paul Manuell has secured the 2019-2020 RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes title after a dramatic day of racing at the final round at Hampton Downs on Saturday. Manuell secured his second V8 ute racing title by just six points from Glen Collinson after a...
100% for the season for Connor Adam
The longly awaited official finish to the 2019/20 Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship finally concluded at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park on Saturday 19th September. Three races in total in a non-championship event marking the official bookend to the season. A season that began back in...
Double for Hartley at Le Mans 24
Toyota GAZOO Racing made it three in a row with its win at Le Mans on Sunday while Toyota driver, New Zealander Brendon Hartley, added the title to his previous Le Mans win. Brendon Hartley, Sébastien Buemi, and Kazuki Nakajima completed over 5,000km of the gruelling...
Vodanovich signs off in style
Best Bars Toyota 86 Champion Peter Vodanovich made it three race wins from three in possibly his final weekend in the category, but he was pushed hard on every corner of every lap by a resurgent Connor Adam. The two experienced racers dominated the final -...