Star-studded lineup for NZ Hillclimb Championships
The Winmax Brake Pads MotorSport New Zealand Goldstar Hillclimb Championships has attracted star-studded entrants for its one-round shootout in March. Organised by South Otago Car Club, the Goldstar title will compete over two days in the Lawrence region. The tarmac being day one, on Tuapeka...
2024 Formula Regional Oceania Championship dates and tracks confirmed
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing New Zealand has this week confirmed dates and tracks for the 2024 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship. The early release of championship dates follows the completion of the championship’s hugely successful first full international season post-Covid and its debut as an...
Storm disruption forces changes to NZRC calendar
The severe weather that has battered much of New Zealand over the past three weeks has forced the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship to make some changes to the 2023 calendar. Due to the recent weather events and uncertainty of access to the...
WORLD CHAMPION BMX STAR SARAH WALKER TO TAKE ON OTAGO RALLY
Olympic medallist and three-time World Champion BMX racer Sarah Walker will make her rallying debut at this year’s Otago Rally as guest driver. Walker, New Zealand's first Olympic BMX medallist, who won Silver in 2012 and is a long-standing member of the Athletes’ Commission of...
Crosbie extends lead in NAPA Auto Parts NZ Formula Ford Championship with five race wins at Taupo
Alex Crosbie proved to be unbeatable all weekend and has the now extended his lead in the 2023 NAPA Auto Parts NZ Formula Ford Championship after the second round at the Taupo International Motorsport Park, Taupo. Five wins from five races sees the Southlander...
Point to prove for Leitch in Asian Le Mans Series heading to Abu Dhabi this weekend
Southland’s Brendon Leitch and his Leipert Motorsport team head to Abu Dhabi this weekend with a point to prove after competing in the first two races of the 2023 Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) at the Dubai Autodrome. Driving a factory-supported Lamborghini Huracan GT3,...
Ice cool Wurz wins Formula Regional Oceania title in style
Austrian Charlie Wurz stayed calm as drama unfolded around him to take victory and the title in the final race of the 2023 Castrol Toyota Regional Formula Oceania Championship. Wurz put a troubled Saturday behind him and did everything he had to do on Sunday...
Brad Kroef wins 3 out of 3 in the V8 Utes racing at Taupo.
The weekend’s racing at Taupo International Motorsport Park was all about the dominance of Brad and Greg Kroef in the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes championship. Brad Kroef won the round in convincing fashion with three wins from three races, but the other places on the...
Chambers makes history – Wurz retakes series lead with one race to go
American racer Chloe Chambers made motorsport history in New Zealand today – winning the penultimate race in the 2023 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship. In doing so she became the first woman to win a race in the 18 year history of the country’s...
Advantage Wurz as Formula Regional Oceania opens final day
Charlie Wurz put himself in the best possible position for the final race of the 2023 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship this morning, taking a sensational pole position at Taupo. Wurz’s lap – the fastest of the weekend - sets up a grandstand to finish...