Taupō rewards Gilchrist, Steedman at race/drift weekend
Wins by Brock Gilchrist and Dave Steedman at the combined race/drift weekend at Taupō’s Motorsport Park – made for an exciting sixth round of the 2023 Super Sprint MotorSport New Zealand Championship. Winning the weekend’s final Toyota 86 Championship race by a narrow margin, Gilchrist...
Star-studded lineup for NZ Hillclimb Championships
The Winmax Brake Pads MotorSport New Zealand Goldstar Hillclimb Championships has attracted star-studded entrants for its one-round shootout in March. Organised by South Otago Car Club, the Goldstar title will compete over two days in the Lawrence region. The tarmac being day one, on Tuapeka...
North Island Rally Series entries building ahead of opening event
With less than a fortnight until the opening round gets a start line countdown, the inaugural Winmax Brake Pads North Island Rally Series continues to attract registrations. Series officials report 34 drivers and 32 co-drivers have now registered for the five-round series which begins with...
2023 NZ Hillclimb Championship confirmed with backing of WinmaX
The MotorSport New Zealand Gold Star Hillclimb Championship returns in 2023 with a unique, one-weekend shootout for the title taking place over the weekend of 18 and 19 March in Lawrence, Otago, thanks to the support of WinmaX Brakes. The NZ Hillclimb Championship is one of...
Sid Hirst claims 25th Tarata Cup
Sid Hirst claimed the 25th running of Sporting Trials NZ's Tarata Cup event. held the 25th Tarata Cup event at Tarata, 30kms east of Inglewood, Taranaki were it has always been held. Sporting Trials is a very inexpensive form of motorsport that involves driving purpose-built, lightweight...
FROM UKRAINE TO ISRAEL TO TERETONGA PARK
Maks Butensko is new to the Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport ClubSport Championship at Teretonga Park this season and he has embarked on quite a journey to get there. Maks was born in Ukraine but moved to Israel when just 11-years-old. After spending time in...
Sporting Trials New Zealand celebrates 25th Anniversary of TARATA CUP
Sporting Trials New Zealand is holding the 25th Anniversary of the coveted TARATA CUP event on the 12th November this year, after having to postpone it twice due to covid. Sporting Trials is an event where drivers drive purpose built 2WD vehicals up seemingly impossable grassy...
Paddon wins Ashley Forest Rallysprint in all-electric Hyundai Kona
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon piloted the Hyundai Kona EV rally car to its second victory at the Ashley Forest Rallysprint, 1.7km gravel hillclimb which took place north of Christchurch on 17 and 18 September. At just its second event, the all-electric Hyundai Kona developed...
Hayden Paddon ready to electrify Ashley Forest Rallysprint
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon is taking the Hyundai Kona EV rally car into competition for just the second time at the Ashley Forest Rallysprint taking place over the weekend of 17 and 18 September. Paddon won the short, intense 1.7 km gravel hillclimb near Rangiora...
Welcoming, affordable and fun ClubSport at Teretonga Park
A new season of entry-level ClubSport is underway at Teretonga Park in Invercargill and there has never been a better time to give grassroots motorsport a go. The Southland Sports Car Club run a six-round championship sponsored by Evolution Motorsport each year with each round consisting...