Emily Robb chosen as BMW Race Driver Series Scholarship recipient
Emily Robb has been chosen as the BMW Race Driver Series Scholarship recipient for the upcoming 2023-24 season. Held as part of their annual Pre-Season Shakedown on Saturday at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, it gave the drivers a chance to blow out the cobwebs as...
Louis Sharp retakes British F4 Championship lead
Louis Sharp secured a place in the ROKiT F4 British Championship certified by FIA record books with victory as the series visited the full Donington Park Grand Prix circuit for the first time, retaiking a slender lead in the race for the coveted title with...
Solid F1 debut for Liam Lawson
Liam Lawson made a solid Formula 1 debut after his late call-up to replace the injured Daniel Ricciardo in the Dutch Grand Prix when he finished 13th and the best of the Scuderia AlphaTauri drivers. The race was red-flagged seven laps from the end and then...
Hayden Paddon top seed entry for Manawatu’s Daybreaker Rally
Recently crowned FIA European Rally Champions Hayden Paddon and co-driver John Kennard will start as first car for the 22-23 September Daybreaker Rally – powered by Brian Green Properties. The pair will lead a field of 100 cars, contesting 150km of the Manawatu and Rangitikei district...
Highlands’ unique endurance race start returns
Highlands Motorsport Park will make a significant nod to motorsport’s rich history with the 21st Century equivalent of the traditional “Le Mans’ start for its forthcoming 10th Anniversary 6 Hour Enduro. The format for the start which Highlands will use for the race on November 5th...
Richie Stanaway confirmed for full-time Supercars drive in 2024 with Penrite Racing
Penrite Racing are proud to announce that Richie Stanaway will complete their driver line-up for the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship season. Richie will join fellow Kiwi Matt Payne in what will be the second year of the Gen3 era. Stanaway will replace David Reynolds who...
Barry Robinson to be remembered at Wyndham Rally
Lock in Saturday 7 October for a very special Wyndham Rally which will remember iconic rally driver Barry Robinson. Robinson, who passed away in March 2022, was a South Island rally legend who led the 1983 New Zealand Rally Championship into the final round only to...
Paddon and Kennard make history with dramatic FIA European Rally Championship win
Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon and co-driver John Kennard have again put their names in world motorsport history books, becoming the first non-Europeans and first New Zealanders to win the FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) title. The New Zealanders secured the 2023 ERC title at...
Supercars confirms New Zealand return for 2024
Supercars is pleased to announce that with support from the New Zealand Government and Taupō District Council, the Repco Supercars Championship will return to New Zealand and race at Taupō International Motorsport Park from 2024. Following productive discussions, the New Zealand Government via the Major Events...
Kiwi & Aussie F5000 drivers make the running at first Rolex Monterey reunion weekend
Kiwis Scott Dixon and Shane Van Gisbergen and Aussie Brodie Kostecki were not the only racing drivers from this neck of the woods making names for themselves in the USA last weekend. At the first of two Rolex-backed Motorsports Reunion classic/historic motor racing meetings at the...