Toyota 86 Championship – the race is on
It’s one of the big weekends of the season for the Toyota 86 Championship and the series looks set to go down to the wire. Points leader and Intermach-backed racer Jordan Baldwin took the last round literally by storm as he splashed and slithered his way...
Snow Rally Podium for Young
Mike Young and Malcolm Read have kicked off their 2019 rally season with an impressive third place at the International Rally of Tsumagoi, a snow rally held in Gunma Prefecture north-west of Tokyo. Leaving behind record summer temperatures in New Zealand and Australia, Young and Read...
Darkhorse adds another thoroughbred to its stable
Darkhorse Racing, which has been sharing its driving duties between Andrew Jackson and Leo Bult so far in the 2018-2019 Toyota 86 Championship, have expanded to a two car team with immediate effect. The team have purchased the ex-Neil Allport car and will enter it from...
King Kenny rides again
New Zealand racing legend Kenny Smith will make his 48th New Zealand Grand Prix start this coming weekend at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon. Smith - 77 - will join the field of sixteen up and coming single seater racers that include his latest protégé, championship leader...
TICKETS ON SALE FOR CLASSIC SPEEDFEST
Tickets are on sale now for one of the most popular events on the local motorsport calendar - the Evolution Motorsport Classic SpeedFest. This year's SpeedFest will take place at Teretonga Park on the outskirts of Invercargill over the weekend of 16/17 February. The event will feature...
BNT V8s Aiding with Grove’s Super 2 Preparations
As the Dunlop Super 2 Championship season start approaches in March at Adelaide, young Australian driver Brenton Grove has been clocking up the V8 miles in New Zealand. The Dunlop Super 2 Championship is the second tier V8 series in Australia under the Virgin Australia Supercars...
Canterbury hosts NZ Hillclimb Championship final
Two Christchurch-based car clubs are jointly hosting the final round of the 2018-19 MotorSport NZ Hillclimb Championship over the weekend of 9-10 February. Ratec Motorsport Inc hosts the first day of competition on the Saturday with a tarmac road hillclimb at Little River, Banks Peninsula. The...
Lawson and Armstrong in pitched battle for series lead
In a weekend when the Toyota Racing Series lead see-sawed back and forth between two of the fastest New Zealand drivers to ever contest the series, Liam Lawson wrested back the points lead and Marcus Armstrong put his name on the Denny Hulme Memorial Cup. The...
HISTORIC TOURING CAR CLASS HAS NEW FAN IN GREG MURPHY
New Zealand’s Archibalds Historic Touring Car Series (HTC) has a new fan in four-time former Bathurst winner and now TV motorsport show co-host Greg Murphy. With fellow multi-time Bathurst 1000 winner Jim Richards, Murphy was one of two guest drivers invited to join the grid at...
McRae crushes Leadfoot Festival record and wins for third consecutive year
Scottish-born Alister McRae has upheld his family’s legendary driving status and made it a three-peat at the Leadfoot Festival - notching up a new record time in the mighty Vantage Subaru WRX STI. McRae had to give it absolutely everything to drop the winning time into...