Another glass ceiling has been broken in the motorsport world. The group operating the three Tony Quinn-owned motor racing circuits in New Zealand has appointed the first female professional driver to their line-up of hot lap drivers and d; Read More
FIFTEEN–YEAR-OLD Invercargill racing driver Alex Crosbie is the 2022 New Zealand Formula Ford Champion. Alex, a Year 11 pupil at Southland Boys’ High School, sealed the title in the last race of the championship at Mike Pero Motorsport Par; Read More
April has come to a busy end in the world of motorsport, with World Rally Championship and Formula One rounds last weekend, the latter at Imola in Italy featuring Kiwi racers Liam Lawson and Marcus Armstrong. Traditionally, though, May has; Read More
Dunedin driver Emma Gilmour has made history in the desert. Gilmour, the first female to drive for McLaren since the motorsport team named after a fellow Kiwi was established in 1963, made her debut in the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia at ; Read More
For parents of teens who despair of the time their offspring spend in the virtual world, Hugo Allan is proof that time is not necessarily wasted. The 17-year-old, who hails from Jack’s Point, Queenstown, is a rarity in motorsport, coming t; Read More
Invercargill driver Alex Crosbie competes in the F1600 at Teretonga at the weekend. PHOTO: TERRY MARSHALL A significant oil spill on an already wet track brought a slightly early end to proceedings at the motorsport event at Teret; Read More
Cormac Buchanan approaches a corner during the final round of the British Talent Cup at Donington Park in England at the weekend. PHOTO: CAMIPIX PHOTOGRAPHY Rising Invercargill rider Cormac Buchanan experienced the highs and the l; Read More
TERETONGA Park, on the outskirts of Invercargill, is the place to be this Labour Weekend (October 23 and 24) when the circuit hosts Round 3 of the Carter’s Tyre Service South Island Endurance Series presented by Allied Petroleum. Originall; Read More
CROMWELL driver Ari Pettigrew, in a borrowed four-wheel-drive Ford Fiesta Pronto, won the Eastern Southland Car Club’s Rosebank Lodge Catlins Rallysprint by the barest of margins on Saturday. Pettigrew set a time on his last run of the day; Read More
Emma Gilmour is set for a full ride in Greenland. The Dunedin rally driver had been named as a reserve for the Veloce Racing team at the Extreme E event. At the end of this month she will step into the car at the Arctic X Prix, fil; Read More
