MICHELS ENTHUSED AFTER TCR ROUND IN AUSTRALIA
Jordan Michels of Invercargill has returned from his initial outing in the carsales TCR Australia Series at Queensland Raceway full of enthusiasm. Michels had received a last minute opportunity to drive a Wall Racing Honda Civic Type R and impressed despite battling illness part of the...
HUGE FIELD FOR 2019 CATLINS COAST RALLY
A massive entry of eighty-eight cars will start the 2019 Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday. Defending champion and four-time winner Andrew Graves of Gore is once again the top seed in his venerable Mitsubishi EVO 3. Graves’ wins have come in 2010, 2013, 2017 and again...
Breakthrough weekend for Leitch in Korea
Kiwi racer Brendon Leitch has recorded his strongest performance of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series so far, taking a win and a second in the Pro-Am class and an overall podium result at the Yeongam circuit in South Korea over the weekend. The Dayle ITM...
Billy Frazer slices points gap as series leaders strike drama in the North Island Formula Ford Winter Series
It was a day of shakeups and mistakes during round three of the winter series held at Manfeild. The weekend was short-lived for Ronan Murphy, a miss-timed gear change during testing on Saturday left the Hawkes Bay local with a blown engine, forcing him to...
MAINLAND RALLY SERIES TO BE DECIDED AT CATLINS
This year’s Catlins Coast Rally is also the fifth and final round of the Mainland Rally Series with the series overall title and several of the classes still wide open, giving extra edge to the result of the rally this Saturday. In the drivers overall championship...
Marcus scores a dominant maiden Formula 3 victory
With summer break on the horizon, Marcus Armstrong was keen to set off the first part of the season on a high as FIA Formula 3 took to the track in Hungary. Visiting a track at which he enjoyed podium success last year, Marcus went...
WHAT IS MOTORKHANA – COME TAKE A LOOK
The Southland Sports Car Club is offering anyone that may be interested in getting involved in their entry level Motorkhana events the opportunity to come to Teretonga Park and take a look at what the sport involves while some of this year’s events are in...
South Island Formula 1600 Championship to welcome northern competitors
Preparations for the forth-coming South Island Formula 1600 Championship are well underway with a seven-round calendar in place. Early expectations are for grids well into the mid-20s with a significant number of competitors already committing to the coming season of racing. With the prospect of...
ARMSTRONG ON THE ATTACK AT HUNGARORING F3 RACE
Marcus Armstrong fought back from a mid-field qualifying position to finish eighth in the first race of two at the latest round of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship. He dominated the first half of qualifying but then struck traffic as a half dozen rivals slapped...
Engine issues for Lawson in Hungary
Despite engine woes in the opening FIA F3 race at the Hungaroring, Kiwi teenager Liam Lawson has maintained his championship position. The 17-year-old Red Bull Junior driver took a hit early in the race from Raul Hyman and from then on struggled to move forward, taking...