Final round of MotorSport New Zealand Championship postponed
The MotorSport New Zealand Championship event scheduled for March 27-29 has been postponed. The decision was made by MotorSport New Zealand and the promoter SpeedWorks Events after concentrated discussions over the last 24-hours. Recent and rapid developments in the COVID-19 situation, including the travel and mass...
Update: MSNZ Championship event at Hampton Downs, March 27-29
MotorSport New Zealand has not made any decision regarding the status Championship event at Hampton Downs on March 27-29. SpeedWorks Events (SWE) and MotorSport New Zealand (MSNZ) have agreed the best way to manage this is to go through a process with all stakeholders involved which...
WRC star Meeke confirmed for Whangarei
Northern Irishman Kris Meeke will tackle the International Rally of Whangarei, to be held on May 8-10 2020. Meeke will compete in New Zealand for the first time, on roads made famous in the local round of the World Rally Championship through the late 1990s...
Track Tec Racing and Jack Milligan to lead Kiwi assault on TCR Asia Pacific Cup
New Zealand team Track Tec Racing will head to Melbourne’s Australian Grand Prix as the sole Kiwi team in the TCR Asia Pacific Cup. The Highlands Motorsport Park based team founded by Carmen Doran and Matt Waters in 2019 will field two of their TCR-spec...
New Zealand Touring Car Championship to be awarded to TCR NZ
Touring car racing in New Zealand is set to enter a new era later this year with confirmation that the New Zealand Touring Car Championship will be awarded to TCR NZ from the 2020/21 season. MotorSport New Zealand confirms that it will not be renewing the...
Richard Bateman wins NZ Hillclimb Championship
Richard Bateman has won the New Zealand Hillclimb Gold Star Championship after the final round of New Zealand Hillclimb Champs held at Port Waikato over the weekend. Bateman, driving his Mitsubishi Evo, fought a close battle against runner-up Michael McLean in his WRX. With mechanical...
Igor dominates NZGP to take TRS title
Igor Fraga came of age today in New Zealand, winning the Grand Prix and the Castrol Toyota Racing Series title with a stylish and dominant drive that marked him out as a potential next-in-line to countrymen Emerson Fittipaldi, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna as a...
Win number two gives Vodanovich Toyota 86 series lead
A stunning feature race win at the fourth round of the Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship at the New Zealand Grand Prix meeting sealed the deal for Peter Vodanovich who won the round and retook the championship lead from Australian rival Jaylyn Robotham. After a dominant...
All to play for in GP as van der Helm becomes eighth 2020 TRS winner
Tijmen van der Helm - the youngest driver in the Castrol Toyota Racing Series - took an impressive first win in the championship on Sunday morning in the penultimate race of the New Zealand Grand Prix weekend.\ With Argentinian Franco Colapinto in second place after another...
Brazilian lock out in New Zealand GP qualifying
The 2020 New Zealand Grand Prix will feature an all-Brazilian front row after an epic qualifying session that saw Igor Fraga take the top spot from Caio Collet. In a shortened qualifying session, M2 Competition driver Fraga hovered around the top ten mark before releasing a...