BMW Race Driver Series Annual Scholarship Day celebrates its 10th anniversary
The BMW Race Driver Series is excited to have reached its 10th annual Scholarship Day, taking place at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park on Saturday, 17 August 2024. The day, organised in conjunction with The Motor Sport Club, offers an opportunity for aspiring race drivers to...
Big names set for Southern Lights Rally
A full 20 years since the roads of Southland, New Zealand, hosted top-tier competition, this weekend’s 21-22 June Transport World Southern Lights Rally will be headed by defending European Rally Champion and seven-time New Zealand Rally Champion Hayden Paddon. Leading the first of 65 cars...
Alex Crosbie heads to second round of F4 US Championship
Invercargill racing driver Alex Crosbie returns to America this week to tackle Round 2 of the F4 US Championship at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio from 20-23 June. The two-time New Zealand Formula Ford Champion showed plenty of speed as he collected two...
Impressive Porsche debut by Bewley in One Hour Enduro
Defending Toyota 86 champion Tom Bewley made an impressive debut in a Porsche GT3 at the final of the North Island Endurance Series at Hampton Downs. The 16-year-old from Havelock North qualified his Dura-Seal sponsored car on pole and took the chequered flag in second...
Jet-setting Jaxon Evans hails improved Darwin weekend
Jaxon Evans has left Darwin with his head held high after a fraught Repco Supercars round at Hidden Valley Raceway. The New Zealander racer, who is now in the midst of four-straight race events across three different countries, completed the Top End round with an 11th...
Paddon shares ERC points’ lead after Sweden
Hayden Paddon and John Kennard finished a hard-fought third in the Royal Rally of Scandinavia, which ran 14 to 16 June as the third round of the 2024 FIA European Rally Championship (ERC). Both New Zealanders are now first equal in the drivers’ and co-drivers’...
Australian co-driver for Gilmour at Southern Lights Rally
Emma Gilmour is fired up about driving in the resurrected Southern Lights Rally and will have a new but familiar co-driver on-board to tackle the gravel rally stages in Southland on 21-22 June. The Dunedin driver has reenlisted the services of Australian navigator Ben Searcy to...
Darwin kicks off four-straight weeks of racing for Jaxon Evans
Jaxon Evans is set to embark on a remarkable month-long racing program, kicking off at the Darwin Triple Crown this weekend. The 27-year-old New Zealander is a man in demand around the world, with his ride in the SCT-backed Chevrolet Supercar at Darwin followed by races...
Reg Cook aiming for the impossible in Bolivia
Join 77-year-old Reg Cook, a fearless pioneer in motor racing, as he embarks on a daring mission to set a new world land speed record of 550 mph (880 kph). Reg and his dedicated team are taking four land-speed racing cars to Bolivia, aiming to...
Swedish podium goal for Paddon
Kiwi rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard are going all out for a podium finish at this weekend’s third round of the 2024 FIA European Rally Championship (ERC), the Royal Rally of Scandinavia taking place 14 to 16 June. The gravel roads of Sweden...