Motor Sport

Southland Sports Car Club volunteer Greg McLeod is an example of just how valuable volunteers are to clubs. When his employer Purdue Bros. decided to send one of their trucks to motor race meetings at Teretonga Park near Invercargill to help with incident recovery sixteen years ago Greg, who had onl

More than 100 karters flocked to the top of the South Island to drop the flag on the six-stop Mainland Series last weekend. The series began with the Sunbelts Sprint Championship over two days, split between KartSport Nelson in Redwood Valley on Saturday before moving over the Whangamoa Saddle to th

Opportunities await Southland racing driver Jordan Michels in Australia after a successful Supercar test across the Tasman recently. Michels made a quick trip across the ditch for a Supercar test with the Erebus Academy at Winton Motor Raceway in Victoria, mid-April. He tested along with several oth

Fifteen–year old Invercargill racing driver, Alex Crosbie, is the 2022 New Zealand Formula Ford Champion. Crosbie, a Year 11 student at Southland Boys High School, sealed the title in the last race of the championship at Mike Pero Motorsport Park at Ruapuna in Christchurch on Sunday. The NAPA Auto P

More than double the number of people attended last Saturday’s Hardpark Takeover at the Ascot Park Raceway, and organisers are super happy with the turn out.  Faded Media & Events business owner Troyden Findlay said adding the family area to this year’s event was definitely a huge hit – as well as a

Drivers as young as twelve years old can compete in entry level motorsport and once again this season several youngsters have demonstrated extraordinary talent during the Evolution Motorsport ClubSport season at Teretonga Park. The latest was Nieko Scoles who competed in the recent ClubSport Triathl

Invercargill driver Jordan Michels extended his run of success in the Noel McIntyre Drainage Club Saloons at Teretonga Park on Saturday in the final event of the season presented by Downer. Michels, driving his rapid V8 Ford Focus, has been unbeaten in the series since December and he continued with

The Ascot Park Raceway will be filled with cars and motorbikes of many makes and models this Saturday, for the second Hardpark Takeover. Organised by Faded Media & Events and building on their first car show last October, a massive 184 vehicles have registered leading up to the big day. Event compan