Lindsay Beer

With such a large entry it is inevitable that there will be some interesting back stories among the competitors in the twentieth running of the Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday. Jeremy McIlwrick and Bradley Dawson’s first rally together was the Wyndham Rally of 1998 and they competed together in the

The cancellation of the New Zealand Rally Championship for 2020 due to Covid- 19 looks to have had an upside for the 20 th Catlins Coast Rally this Saturday (8 August). Josh Marston, a leading competitor at National level with finishes of third and second in the 2018 and 2019 New Zealand Rally Champ

Southern Harness Racing will pay tribute to commentator Dave McDonald at their meeting at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill on today (Thursday 30 July). In his typical “no fuss’ style Davey Mac will enjoy some time amongst the crowd at the Top Of The Park during the afternoon before a presentation

New Zealand Rally Champion, Ben Hunt of Auckland, will take to the roads of the Catlins when the twentieth anniversary Catlins Coast Rally takes place on Saturday 8 August. This is the second time Hunt has come to Catlins as the reigning New Zealand Champion. After he won his first national title in

Last year’s Catlins Coast Rally winner, Garet Thomas of Darfield, returns to tackle the roads again this year. Thomas, with wife Gemma co-driving, won the event in dramatic fashion last year. The duo went into the final stage in third place, thirty-three seconds off the lead but when problems befell

The Catlins Coast Rally reaches a major milestone this year with the 20th edition of the event set to take place on the roads of the Catlins area on Saturday 8 August. Always a popular event, already seventy entries have been received for the rally with some of the biggest names of New Zealand rally

Entry level motorsport is booming in the south and the Southland Sports Car Club hosts its first event of the new season – the Evolution Motorsport ClubSport Triathlon at Teretonga Park in Invercargill on Sunday 26 July. This is a non-championship event which replaces the traditional end of season T

Bevan Gerrard became the most recent Life Member of the Southland Sports Car Club after the organisation’s 72 nd AGM last week. Gerrard, originally from Winton and now based in Invercargill, has been involved with the club for over 45 years after good mate Ray Galt got him involved initially. “Car t