Legends of Speed celebrations for Graeme Lawrence and family set to go at Hampton Downs
The 2024 HRC Legends of Speed will this year be celebrating Graeme Lawrence and family over the weekend of 22-24 March 2024. Three days of motor racing will be run at the Hampton Downs Motorsport Park commemorating the achievements of Graeme Lawrence and family...
Banks takes Phillip Island Formula 5000 GP title
Auckland’s Codie Banks clean-swept the field of F5000 cars to secure the inaugural Phillip Island Formula 5000 GP title today, concluding the 2024 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. Contesting five races at the Southern Hemisphere’s largest historic festival of motorsport, Banks...
Kiwi Codie Banks dominates trans-Tasman F5000 racing
Flying the New Zealand flag at the Phillip Island Classic-‘Festival of Motorsport’, Auckland’s Codie Banks led a Kiwi 1-2 at this afternoon’s second race for the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. Banks (Lola T332 HU 16) has so far topped every...
Ten Kiwis add to Phillip Island F5000 trans-Tasman event
Of the 21 Formula 5000 cars competing at Australia’s Phillip Island Classic this weekend (8-10 March 2024) will be ten from the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series. The fourth event on the 2023/24 calendar it is one of multiple off-shore adventures the...
Dunedin’s Ross wins first F5000 race at SKOPE weekend
Saturday 3 February: The first of three races at the 2024 SKOPE Classic weekend at Christchurch’s Euromarque Motorsport Park was won by Steve Ross in the car originally campaigned by US based Quicksilver Racing. Contesting the third round of the 2023/2024 season the field of...
F5000s race to the South Island for the Skope Classic this weekend
The thundering SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series touches down in Christchurch for this weekend (2-4 February) running of the Skope Classic at the Euromarque Motorsport Park. Two weeks on from their showing at the Historic GP at Taupō the journey to...
Historic GP title won by Steve Ross
It was the 50-year-old McRae GM-1 of Dunedin’s Steve Ross that triumphed at today’s Historic GP title – contested by the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series. The final of three races held at the Taupō International Motorsport Park, today’s 10-lap race...
Rain spoils F5000 party at Taupō International Motorsport Park
Today’s eight-lap race for the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series sat under a rain cloud, as the opening round of the 2024 season began at the Taupō International Motorsport Park. Just as the grid of 10 cars took to the circuit...
Historic marvels at Taupō’s Super Sprint MotorSport NZ Championship event
Taupō roars to life this weekend (19-21 January) as host of the annual Historic GP in conjunction with the Super Sprint MotorSport New Zealand Championship premiere series. The second of seven for the 2024 season, this weekend combines two worlds with the historic era alongside the...
Formula 5000 winner to claim 2024 Historic GP title at Taupō
The return of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series for the 2024 season includes the Historic GP title – being awarded this weekend at the Taupō International Motorsport Park 19-21 January. Akin to a Grand Prix, the Historic GP is an...