Krystal Brock reflects on GC600 experience
Auckland's Krystal Brock, 25, was selected to participate in a volunteer exchange program which saw here take on a multitude of roles at one of Australia's biggest motorsport events. Organised by MotorSport NZ’s Women in Motorsport Advisory Commission, the trans-Tasman exchange programme is designed to expand...
ORR-WEST AND BYERS AIMING BIG IN SOUTH ISLAND CAMPAIGN
Christina Orr-West is back in a GT3 car for this season's South Island Endurance Championship and is relishing the opportunity. Orr-West will team up with Ben Byers in his family-run Audi R8, which has just had an extensive pre-season factory rebuild. Thirty two year-old Orr-West is...
Mentor scheme launched by Women in Motorsport NZ
A programme designed to mentor relatively new and/or aspiring female motorsport participants who wish to progress their involvement in the sport has been launched by the Women in Motorsport Advisory Commission of MotorSport New Zealand. The female mentees can be competitors, event organisers, volunteers or officials,...
NZ Women in Motorsport ambassador scheme launched
MotorSport New Zealand, through its Women in Motorsport Advisory Commission, has revealed an ambassador scheme designed to raise the visibility of women in New Zealand motorsport. New Zealand’s Women in Motorsport Commission stems from a similar initiative at global level when the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile...
NZ-based Whitley ready for W Series selection
New Zealand-based Australian racer Alexandra Whitley is ready to do her best at the intensive W Series selection programme being run in Austria next week. Whitley will be up against 59 other talented female racers vying for one of 18 places to compete in the brand-new...
Rally season’s final round has ups and downs for Gilmour
Emma Gilmour was left wondering what could have been at yesterday’s Hyundai NZ Raglan Rally of the Coast, after she had some fast stage times, interspersed with mechanical issues. The final round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship (NZRC) started well for...
Podium spot within Gilmour’s grasp at Raglan
A third place on the season’s podium is within Emma Gilmour’s sights at this Saturday’s final round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship - the Hyundai NZ Raglan Rally of the Coast. She and co-driver Anthony McLoughlin will be doing their best...
Chelsea Herbert takes Class One step in BNT V8s
Chelsea Herbert will graduate to class one of the BNT V8s this season when the championship gets underway at Pukekohe in November. Herbert competed in class two during the 2017/18 season, the 19-year-old becoming the first female to win a V8 Touring Car race in New...
Torque issue results in an early exit for Dayle ITM Mike Racing at Ruapuna
The Dayle ITM Mike Racing team’s three-hour race at Mike Pero Motorsport Park was unfortunately all over before it really got going yesterday, at the second round of the Carter’s Tyres South Island Endurance Series. After less than 10 laps on the Ruapuna circuit, near Christchurch, team...
Wairarapa female motorsport volunteer selected for trans-Tasman exchange
Masterton’s Tracey Stringer has been selected as the New Zealand participant in a trans-Tasman exchange for female motorsport officials. Now in its third year, the exchange is organised by the Women in Motorsport advisory commission (WIMNZ) of MotorSport New Zealand with their Australian counterparts, the Women...