New Zealand Motorsport News

Conrad Clark, 17, of Taupo has wrapped up his best year yet attending the FIA Awards night in Paris. Clark has been busy since wrapping up the Chinese Formula 4 Championship in Shanghai. The teen has undertaken testing in the Asian Formula 3 series in preparation for a potential drive there in 2020. The testing showed positive signs with Clark..

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French karting champion Emilien Denner will take his first steps in circuit racing in New Zealand in 2020 in the Castrol Toyota Racing Series. The 17 year old Strasbourg driver will head to the southern hemisphere series on the back of an impressive season in karting in KZ2 in which he won the FIA Karting KZ2International Supercup during the FIA..

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TCR New Zealand has announced a revised calendar for the 2020 season, extending the inaugural 2020 championship duration from its original planned five-week duration to be held over five months. Based on competitor feedback, the new calendar will consist of seven rounds, commencing in the second half of 2020 and will run through until February 2021. This will include a..

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Applications for the 2020 Elite MotorSport Academy of New Zealand are open. Young kiwi competitors who hold licences with MotorSport New Zealand and its affiliates are encouraged to put their names forward for the renowned elite training academy. The academy has fostered young talent who regularly make headlines around the world for their achievements. Shane van Gisbergen, Hayden Paddon, Mitch..

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The fastest drivers and the fastest cars - with no restrictions. And it's all going to be live on TV. Rush Hour - the unrestricted one hour races run by Speed Works at its motor racing events - will receive a big boost this coming season with the four events scheduled all benefitting from live television coverage. The four events..

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Brazilian ace Igor Fraga - fresh from a top three finish in the 2019 Formula Regional European Championship - will begin his 2020 racing season with a title challenge in New Zealand's Castrol Toyota Racing Series. Of Brazilian descent but born in Japan, Fraga is a successful and interesting addition to the 2020 field. Driving for M2 Competition, the successful..

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"We were able to push hard every time we were on track" Panorama Motorsport racer Glen Collinson enjoyed a winning start to his season, taking one race win and two second places in the first round of the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes Championship at Pukekohe Park over the weekend. Collinson sits second in the points just a whisker behind series..

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The mighty OSCA Super Saloons will headline the action at the last motor race event of 2019 at Invercargill’s Teretonga Park this weekend - 7/8 December. A great programme of racing presented by Downer will feature over the two days. The OSCA category allows competitors plenty of freedom to build and design their cars and the result is a wide..

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Dunedin’s Cameron Freeman is in the box seat to take over the lead in the 2019/20 South Island Formula 1600 Championship from Christchurch’s Bailey Paterson. Due to other commitments, Paterson will be absent from the fourth round at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend. With a maximum of 40-points for each of three races available at the two-day event, Freeman..

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Hayden Paddon and Paddon Rallysport Group have launched a brand-new motorsport event called the Ben Nevis Station Golden 1200 Hillclimb which will run for the first time in March 2020 in the spectacular Nevis region of Central Otago. The Golden 1200 Hillclimb is intended to be a sister event to the iconic Race to the Sky which Paddon Rallysport is..

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