Motor Sport

The Yamaha Motor New Zealand road racing teams aced their first 2020/2021 season’s competitive outings, with three of the four riders topping their classes at the Suzuki International Series yesterday. It’s been a long time between laps for the Yamaha Racing Team’s (YRT) Alastair Hoogenboezem (YZF-R

Interest is growing in entry level motorsport in the south and it continued to show at Round 4 of the 2020/2021 Evolution Motorsport ClubSport Championship at Teretonga Park on Sunday. Four new faces contested the Motorkhana, held in the morning, and they included 15-year-old Carter Dougherty who dr

Husband and wife Glenn and Ismay Howden of Invercargill took the overall Club Championship and the Ladies Championship respectively at the Eastern Southland Car Club Annual Prizegiving recently. Glenn Howden scooped the Club Championship in a Toyota Corolla he purchased for $100. Howden only contest

Three classes, three clear winners and three casualties. That was the story of the day as Liam MacDonald, Leon Hallett and Gregory Scott took the spoils in their respective classes on a day of motor racing action presented by Downer at Teretonga Park on Sunday. However, while Hallett had a good day

Teretonga Raceway will host some of New Zealand’s best motorcycle racers on Saturday. Round two of the Southern Race Series, a joint venture between the Southland Motorcycle Club and Motorcycling Canterbury, is set to heat up as racers from throughout the South Island venture to the deep south. Sout

Admission is free at Teretonga Park this Sunday (15 November) with two classes competing throughout the afternoon in a quickfire programme of races. The Noel McIntyre Drainage Clubmans Saloons and Sports & Racing cars have the programme all to themselves at the event presented by Downer. The on-trac

A homebuilt, electric powered, vehicle created plenty of interest at Round 3 of the Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport Clubsport Championship at Teretonga Park on Sunday. Duncan Cairncross of Gore entered the Autocross event in his LVVTA, a self built car powered by an electric forklif

Carter Strang of Wallacetown, on the outskirts of Invercargill, took his second successive victory in the Eastern Southland Car Club’s MLT/Heartland Hotels Ernslaw One Limited Rankleburn Rally in West Otago on Saturday. Strang, the defending champion and top seed, along with co-driver Stewart Robbie