Can Inkster & Winn set new Targa NZ record this year?
Will defending - and now five-time consecutive – event winners Glenn Inkster and co-driver Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) from Auckland win this year’s 25th anniversary Targa NZ tarmac motor rally, which starts in Taupo on Tuesday October 29 and finishes five days later in...
Flying Finn Mikko Hirvonen to contest Otago Rally
Finnish World Rally Championship legend, Mikko Hirvonen, will contest next year’s International Classic Otago Rally in a huge coup for the New Zealand event. The winner of 15 World Rally Championship (WRC) events, Hirvonen retired from the top level of rallying at the end of the...
Perfect start for Paterson in South Island Formula 1600 Championship
Christchurch’s Bailey Paterson (Van Diemen Stealth) had the perfect start to the seven-round 2019/20 South Island Formula 1600 Championship with fastest qualifying lap and three race wins. The Mike Pero Motorsport Park in Christchurch hosted the first round with 20 cars taking to the grid...
James Penrose extends Formula Ford lead as Thomas Boniface shines
James Penrose has extended his ITM NZ Formula Ford Championship lead after the second round at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon at the weekend. Whilst the 23-year-old driver from Christchurch extended his lead, it was Taranaki teen Thomas Boniface, 15, who stole the show. The early pacesetter...
Lawson confirmed for Macau Grand Prix
Red Bull Junior driver Liam Lawson has been entered in next month’s Macau Grand Prix and will race for MP Motorsport, the same team he drove for in the inaugural FIA F3 season in Europe. First staged in 1954, the Macau Grand Prix will be contested...
Armstrong to make second appearance in Macau Grand Prix
A new chapter is coming for the Macau Grand Prix and SJM Prema Theodore Racing. The world’s most outstanding and challenging street venue is set to welcome the teams and drivers of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship for the 66th edition of the event,...
MotorSport NZ rapt with WRC return
MotorSport New Zealand personnel are delighted to see the overnight news that Rally New Zealand will once again feature as a FIA World Rally Championship event in 2020 after an eight-year hiatus. “To see the 2020 FIA WRC calendar come out this week with New Zealand...
NZ Hillclimb Championship starts in Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa
MotorSport New Zealand’s 2019-20 NZ Hillclimb Championship gets underway on 5 October with the first round jointly hosted by the Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa Car Clubs across two weekends. The NZ Hillclimb Championship is one of MotorSport NZ’s longest-contested titles, dating back to 1956. Nowadays the...
MotorSport New Zealand announces first FIA Motorsport Games drivers
Aucklander Flynn Mullany and Taupo’s Faine Kahia are the first drivers confirmed to represent ‘Team New Zealand’ in the upcoming FIA Motorsport Games taking place in Rome, Italy on 1-3 November. In June, the FIA unveiled a new international, multidisciplinary sporting event called the FIA Motorsport...
Paddon shatters Ashley Forest hillclimb record to take win
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon and his Paddon Rallysport team has shattered the Ashley Forest Rallysprint record with a blistering time of 52.77 seconds in the Hyundai AP4++ to win the high-profile hillclimb event. The 1.7-km North Canterbury hillclimb was first run in 1979 by Canterbury’s...