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...
Banks the victor following bruising F5000 racing at Manfeild
Sunday’s two races for the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series was far from plain sailing for the 10-strong field – except for Auckland’s David Banks, taking a win and a second. The first of four rounds on the 2023-2024 calendar, the...
F5000 season opening race starts in style at Manfeild
It was a fighting finish at today’s opening race of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series, with the Talon MR1A of Grant Martin taking the chequered flag 0.6sec ahead of the Lola T332 of Kevin Ingram. The afternoon six-lap race opens...
Fogg’s Mustang returns to compete in Australia
The ever-popular Black & Gold J. A. Russell Ltd 1970 Fastback Mustang is returning to compete in Australia in the hands of its Kiwi owner Angus Fogg. Having last raced across the ditch at Mount Panorama in 2019, Fogg is keen to compete again,...
Value of competing in NZ F5000 driven home with results in Rolex Motorsport Reunion Meetings in the US
The value of regular competition in the New Zealand and Australia-based SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series was driven home – with some gusto, it must be said - at both rounds of this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion...
Kiwi & Aussie F5000 drivers make the running at first Rolex Monterey reunion weekend
Kiwis Scott Dixon and Shane Van Gisbergen and Aussie Brodie Kostecki were not the only racing drivers from this neck of the woods making names for themselves in the USA last weekend. At the first of two Rolex-backed Motorsports Reunion classic/historic motor racing meetings at the...
Key Kiwi F5000 drivers have ‘unfinished business’ in the USA this month
Two key members of the four-man SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series squad who have travelled to the USA this week to join compatriots from there, Australia and the UK in celebrating the 55th anniversary of the stock-block 5-litre V8 wings-and-slicks...
Hirvonen becomes Otago Classic Rally winner
International guest driver Mikko Hirvonen has taken a convincing win in the Eneos Motor Oil Otago Classic Rally, becoming the first overseas driver to win the event since 2019. Campaigning the Rossendale Wines Ford Escort RS1800, Hirvonen won 10 out of the 14 completed stages, showing...
F5000 field grows to 16 for season’s series finale at Hampton Downs this weekend
Strong family ties see the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series field expand out to 16 cars for the 2022/23 season’s grand finale round at the Hampton Downs circuit complex in New Zealand’s northern Waikato this weekend. The world-renowned historic motor racing...
51 years on, McRae’s original MG1 finally gets the Pukekohe race wins/lap record
The Pukekohe motor racing circuit in general, and – in particular - the New Zealand Grand Prix meetings held at the storied South Auckland venue between 1970 & 1975 didn’t do late Kiwi racing great Graham McRae any favours…even when the legendary Wellington-born racing car...