Endurance driver joins Toyota Racing Series field for 2020
LMP2 and LMP3 endurance race driver Henning Enqvist is an intriguing addition to the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand. The Swedish driver will join Giles Motorsport for the campaign, which gets underway in January and runs for five consecutive weekends before concluding with...
Summer season of motorsport blasts off this weekend
Mainstream motorsport gets back on full throttle this weekend when Pukekohe Park bursts into action with the first event in the Speed Works MotorSport NZ Championship series. The top New Zealand championship categories all build their calendars around or within the Speed Works calendar and this...
Championship wide open in RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes
The V8 Utes are back for the Speed Works MotorSport NZ Championship season and it’s anyone’s guess who could take the championship. The championship - entering its 13th season this weekend - is now the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes Championship and will once again see...
Tony Richards Toyota to run Flynn Mullany in Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship
Fresh from the recent FIA Motorsports Games, 17-year-old Waimauku racer Flynn Mullany is aiming to make a mark in this season's Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship. The former karter and 2K Cup racer will compete in the Tony Richards Toyota entry and joins a field of...
Heimgartner Makes BNT V8 Return
Andre Heimgartner will return to the BNT V8s field this weekend when the season gets underway at Pukekohe. The 2017/18 BNT V8s Champion will line up on the grid for Hamilton Motorsports, alongside teammate Lance Hughes. Heimgartner has previously partnered with Hughes in the New...
Chelsea Herbert to contest 2020 Castrol TRS series
New Zealand’s Chelsea Herbert is the first Kiwi to be confirmed for the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series, and only the fifth female driver in the sixteen year history of the championship. Today’s confirmation that Herbert will run the full five round championship with Giles Motorsport...
Alexandra Whitley Lands BNT V8 Drive
Alexandra Whitley will line up in a Richards Team Motorsport Toyota Camry when the BNT V8s Championship gets underway at Pukekohe next weekend. Her debut in the BNT V8s Championship follows on from a positive debut in the V8 Utes Championship last season where the...
Ransley confirmed for Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship campaign
Experienced Toyota 86 racer Jaden Ransley has confirmed he will run in the 2019-20 Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship starting the season as one of the title favourites. Though still very young at 17, this will be Christchurch racer Ransley's fourth Toyota 86 season and follows...
Shake up to NZRC calendar for 2020
A five-round Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship awaits competitors in 2020 with three international events, a new rally and the return of WRC Rally New Zealand. Championship organisers have today confirmed a five-round calendar that begins with the traditional season-opening Otago Rally, heading...
Glen Collinson launches 2019-2020 campaign
Hamilton's Glen Collinson will be back this season racing in the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes Championship in Panorama Motorsport's Ford Falcon FG - but the popular race winner and championship contender is also eyeing up other drives in New Zealand ahead of the coming season. Collinson,...