International drivers get green light for Castrol Toyota Racing Series
International drivers will be allowed to enter New Zealand for the three-round 2021 Castrol Toyota Racing Series. Confirmation was given to TOYOTA GAZOO Racing New Zealand today following lengthy consultation and discussion with MotorSport New Zealand, MBIE and New Zealand Immigration. Drivers will still have to quarantine...
New Zealand Supercars round confirmed for 2021
The MotorSport New Zealand team is excited that the Repco Supercars Championship will visit New Zealand for a round of their 2021 championship. The New Zealand round of the Supercars championship, also the country’s largest annual sporting event, was set to take place in 2020 before...
Marcus Armstrong on the pace in F2 at Sakhir
Kiwi race driver Marcus Armstrong has finished in the points twice and narrowly missed a podium in the second of two races at the penultimate round of the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship. With a long late-season break from the previous round in September at...
Points finish reward for Marcus Armstrong at Sakhir
Locked in the centre of the battle for the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, Kiwi race driver Marcus Armstrong has secured his third points finish of the season. As the championship enters its penultimate round in Bahrain, Armstrong has dramatically reversed his form in the championship,...
Liam Lawson to test Formula 2 in Bahrain
Liam Lawson will take part in the Formula 2 testing at Bahrain early in December. The annual end-of-season testing coincides with the final round of the F2 championship at the Sakhir circuit and Lawson will step into one of the Hitech GP cars, the team...
Marcus Armstrong back on track in FIA Formula 2
After a lengthy late-season break, Kiwi race driver Marcus Armstrong returns to the FIA Formula 2 Championship this weekend for the penultimate round at the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain. Armstrong has spent the time between the previous round in September at Russia’s Sochi circuit training and...
Kiwi Mike Young and Beckwith come from behind to be crowned West Australian Rally Champions
Mike Young and Scott Beckwith have clinched their first Western Australian Rally Championship amidst a dramatic year of COVID-19, close finishes and last-minute entries. What began as a one-off event at the Forest Rally in September, quickly turned into a stunning championship-winning season. Young’s clean sweep...
Can Young Make it Three from Three?
After winning the last two rounds of the 2020 West Australian Rally Championship, New Zealander Mike Young enters this weekend’s (7th Nov) Safari Darling Rally in the Maximum Motorsport Subaru Impreza with an outside chance of being crowned the WA rally champion. “Things have to go...
PRG and Hayden Paddon reveals spectacular Hyundai EV rally car
One of the world’s first EV rally cars, based on the Hyundai Kona, has been revealed by Paddon Rallysport (PRG) at Hyundai Motors New Zealand in Auckland. Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon led the project to develop the 400+ kW electric-powered rally car, a project sparked...
Lawson just misses Super Licence qualification for Formula One
Liam Lawson should have qualified for a Formula One Super Licence but an administrative blunder has left him four points short. The European Formula Open championship he competed in last year has only recently been ruled out of qualification points. The Red Bull Junior...