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...
Cyclone Gabrielle’s effects still being felt as F5000 field prepares for penultimate 2022/23 Series Round at Pukekohe this weekend
Before ex-tropical cyclone Gabrielle cut a swathe from Northland and Auckland down through the East Coast of the North Island, as far south as Hawke’s Bay on Monday night and Tuesday morning a week ago now, the organisers of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000...
Blackmun wins special race at Star Insure Classic SpeedFest
Todd Blackmun was the inaugural winner of the Brian Crosbie Memorial Trophy at the Star Insure Classic SpeedFest at Teretonga Park, Invercargill, this weekend. The trophy remembers one of Southland’s best saloon car drivers who passed away recently. It was donated by Brian’s family and...
LOCAL F5000 CARS/DRIVERS SWEEP THE FLOOR AT SKOPE CLASSIC MEETING IN CHRISTCHURCH OVER THE WEEKEND.
They came, they saw, and at the 33rd Skope Classic motor racing meeting at Christchurch’s freshly re-named Euromarque (nee Mike Pero) Motorsport Park (Ruapuna) over the weekend, local driver Michael Collins (Leda GM1 001) and fellow Mainlander Steve Ross (McRae GM1 009) conquered, sweeping all...
ALL CHANGE AS WILLIS NOT MARTIN WINS TAUPO HISTORIC GRAND PRIX
‘To the winner go the spoils, ‘as the old sporting adage goes, and there were certainly spoils aplenty awaiting the winner of this year’s Taupō Historic Grand Prix race, Rotorua’s Brett Willis, (Lola T332) at the now Tony Quinn-owned Taupo International Motorsport Park circuit on...