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Kiwi rally returns to WRC
Tuesday, 06 September 2022
In a few weeks, the Rally of New Zealand makes its keenly awaited return to the World Rally Championship, travelling the roads of the Auckland and Waikato regions that are carved into the history o
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Shane of all trade’s heads for Rally NZ
Monday, 04 July 2022
Karting, Formula First, Formula Ford, ATV racing, rallysprints, classic rallying, V8 Supercars – Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen has competed in a bewildering range of motorsport disciplines and won races
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International recognition for TRS FT-60
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
The Toyota Gazoo Racing team has set itself an ambitious goal: to return to the five-round/NZ Grand Prix series format in 2023.
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Otago Rally kicks off 2022 championship in style AP4 vs R5: battle of the categories
Monday, 02 May 2022
Images by Geoff Ridder
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Techspan offers 86 reasons to go faster
Monday, 04 April 2022
It’s a Toyota 86, but not as we know it, and it’s coming (sideways) to drift competition very soon.
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Two leading kiwi’s upshift for 2022
Monday, 04 April 2022
Hayden Paddon and leading rival Ben Hunt have both confirmed they will compete in national/World Rally Championship event campaigns this year.
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Premier categories drawing huge grids
Saturday, 05 March 2022
The weather hammered in, but the racing continued.
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Toyota 86: Good Evans!
Tuesday, 08 February 2022
New Zealand V8 Series champion Simon Evans has established a strong lead in the Toyota 86 Championship after taking two race wins at Ruapuna.
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Joel Giddy unleashes the Big Dog at Manukau
Tuesday, 08 February 2022
More than 650 kW, four wheel drive, a full tube ‘spaceframe’ chassis – off-road racer Joel Giddy’s new Ford-bodied race truck came out for a pre-season eye-opener at the Counties Classic club serie
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Gilmour signs to McLaren Racing
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Dunedin’s Emma Gilmour is celebrating her new challenge: a full Extreme E season with debutante team McLaren Racing.
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DTM heartache for Kiwi racer
Friday, 29 October 2021
A last-race tangle, suspension damage and team orders from rival marque Mercedes have combined to deny rising Kiwi race star Liam Lawson a historic rookie title win.
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OBITUARY - Vale Graham Peter McRae 
Wednesday, 08 September 2021
The best engineer/driver – this side of Bruce McLaren...
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Triple Eight Supercar Test for Toyota 86 champion
Wednesday, 04 August 2021
Supercars powerhouse and championship leaders Triple Eight Race Engineering have joined with the Tony Quinn Foundation to provide the next champion of New Zealand’s Toyota 86 series with a Super
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Motor Equipment News July 2021
Darren Kelly is D1NZ ‘Drift King’ for a third time
Monday, 05 July 2021
In the pantheon that is the D1NZ New Zealand Drifting Championship ‘roll of honour’ several names stand out. Aucklander Darren Kelly’s is the latest.
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Motor Equipment News June 2021
Paddon & Kennard back to their winning best in Dunedin
Monday, 31 May 2021
Kiwi rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard took another commanding win together at this year’s Rally of Otago in the Paddon Rallysport-prepared Hyundai i20 AP4.
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Horan gets a golden start to 2021!
Horan gets a golden start to 2021
Monday, 03 May 2021
Thundertruck racer Raana Horan took his shiny gold Nissan Titan V8 to outright victory in the inaugural Mickey Thompson New Zealand Stadium Off-road Racing Championship, held at Manukau in Auckland
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Collins & Windelburn share F5000 class race wins at Skope Classic
Tuesday, 06 April 2021
Local ace Michael Collins (Leda GM1) got within 0.168 of a second of claiming a qualifying/race win/quickest race lap clean sweep at the penultimate round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F500
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Big crowds salute Ford at Taupo Historic GP
Tuesday, 09 March 2021
Just over 15,000 people enjoyed two days of close, exciting historic car racing and associated displays and activities at the Taupō Historic GP celebrating Ford over the January 23-24 weekend.
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NAPA Auto parts is the new name behind Meremere Dragway
Tuesday, 09 March 2021
New and significant player on the automotive and industrial parts scene, NAPA Auto Parts, is now the name behind New Zealand’s leading drag racing facility, the Meremere Dragway south of Auckland.<
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Getting some track time in a radical SR3XX!
Getting some track time in a radical SR3XX!
Monday, 08 February 2021
Most of the time my ‘work days’ roll one-into-the other as I sit in front of a computer screen arranging words and pictures into some sort of coherent order.
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