Boost for Castrol Toyota Racing Series as FIA confirms winter championships’ status
New Zealand’s premier single seater motorsport championship has received a major boost from world motorsport's governing body following a meeting of the FIA World Motorsport Council (WMSC) at the end of last week. Drivers aiming to qualify for a Formula One Super Licence can now count...
Shepherd secures top TCR seat for Spanish and Belgian 24 hour races
Kiwi racer Rowan Shepherd has secured a drive in two of Europe's biggest endurance events as he looks to build a career in both the burgeoning TCR category and in international endurance racing. The 27 year old - originally from Hawkes Bay and now a Christchurch...
Next Generation BNT V8 Breaks Cover
A new and exciting era for V8 racing in New Zealand is on the horizon with the BNT V8s Championship announcing technical details of their next generation car. A huge leap forward in design and technical specification the new car platform is to be designed and...
Fight Back to Podium Finish
Although leading APRC Rally Montre at the time, broken suspension on Stage 9 prevented Mike Young from posting his first win in the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship driving the CUSCO TRD Yaris 4WD . Co-driver Malcolm Read showed his amazing skills by rebuilding the suspension...
Kiwi Toyota 86 racer, Vodanovich joins Paul Morris Motorsports
18-year-old New Zealand racer, Peter Vodanovich will complete his maiden Australian Toyota 86 Racing Series season with Paul Morris Motorsports, which currently fields Declan Fraser and Luke Vanna. Vodanovich visited the Paul Morris Racing Academy at the Norwell Motorplex on the Gold Coast after finishing the...
Lawson crashes out of the lead at Spa but retains 2nd in Euroformula Open championship
A lightning start in the final Euroformula Open race at Spa-Francorchamps catapulted Liam Lawson into the lead before disaster struck when the 17-year-old Kiwi clashed with his Red Bull Junior teammate Yuki Tsunoda and both drivers retired. Lawson started from grid five and made up two places by the...
North Island Champions crowned at Hampton Downs
There was sweet revenge for their Pukekohe disappointment for Jonny Reid and Neil Foster as they dominated the final round of the ENEOS North Island Endurance Series Three Hour championship at Hampton Downs. But it was Glenn Smith and John De Veth who cruised home...
Lawson takes another podium in EFO from 8th to 3rd in the opening race at Spa
A poor qualifying by Liam Lawson for the opening race of Euroformula Open at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium didn't stop the Kiwi teenager from making the podium. In the closing minutes of the morning qualifying session, Lawson tumbled from 2nd to 8th as he battled with a badly understeering...
MotorSport NZ confirms TCR NZ promoter
MotorSport New Zealand has awarded the contract for the commercial and promotional rights of the new TCR New Zealand motor racing series to the ANZ Motorsport Group, a new subsidiary company of the Australian Racing Group (ARG), which promotes the TCR Australia Series. The decision was...
Situations Vacant: Chief Executive Officer
MotorSport New Zealand (MSNZ) is recognised and appointed by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) as the governing body of four wheeled motor sport in New Zealand and as their sole authority having the sporting power with the right to organise officially sanctioned National Championship,...