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Kiwi leads European Rally Championship
Monday, 29 May 2023
New Zealand rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard lead the 2023 FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) points-table after scoring second place at the second round.
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Stokes kicks off Mainland campaign with a win
Tuesday, 02 May 2023
Generational speed: Robbie Stokes/Dave Neill won the opening round of the 2023 Mainland Rally Championship, held on the first of the two-day Otago Rally, on Saturday.  Stokes is the son of New Zeal
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Kiwi drivers hit Indy
Monday, 06 March 2023
Scott Dixon first, then Scott McLaughlin, Marcus Armstrong, so who's next? Possibly multiple New Zealand Grand Prix winner Nick Cassidy.
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Wurz Wins TRS Series
Monday, 06 March 2023
There are two truths about the single-make Toyota Racing Series: consistency is key, and like no other series, it shapes future F1 drivers.
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Premier race series back on the pace
Wednesday, 08 February 2023
After three years of pandemic that crippled economies worldwide, New Zealand’s premier race series is at full speed once more.
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THTGUY Drift takes Techspan Motorsport to a higher plane
Wednesday, 08 February 2023
You may recall that in the April 2022 issue of Motor Equipment News we featured the Techspan Motorsport Toyota GT86 that Jake Fastnedge (Thtguy Drift) and his dad Tim were building.
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Ruiterman is 2022 Off-road champion
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Photos courtesy of Mike Peffers Photography
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Repco Rally New Zealand 2022
Monday, 31 October 2022
Rallying’s history books were re-written in Auckland in early October as 22-year-old Kalle Rovanperä became the youngest ever world rally champion.
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The Mountain is calling for Justin Allen
Wednesday, 05 October 2022
Spurred on by a top five result in last year’s New Zealand Toyota 86 Championship, Justin Allen has one target for the 2022/23 season.
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V8 Supercars say goodbye to Pukekohe
Monday, 03 October 2022
Shane van Gisbergen drew inspiration from trips to Pukekohe with his dad to watch Kiwi racing legends Greg Murphy and Jason Richards to give a massive crowd the perfect send-off for the Pukekohe Ra
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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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