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New Combination Claims Southland Sidecar Championship
New Combination Claims Southland Sidecar Championship
Southland Sport   -   Dec 09, 2019

Despite just a handful of race meetings under their belt as a team, Jason Harpur and swinger James Dawson clinched the Southland Sidecar Championship at Oreti Park Speedway on Saturday night. In just their second season racing as a combination, Harpur and Dawson impressed throughout the heats to car

Chelsea Herbert to Contest 2020 Castrol TRS Series
Chelsea Herbert to Contest 2020 Castrol TRS Series
Southland Sport   -   Nov 27, 2019

New Zealand’s Chelsea Herbert is the first Kiwi to be confirmed for the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series, and only the fifth female driver in the sixteen year history of the championship. Today’s confirmation that Herbert will run the full five round championship with Giles Motorsport under the gui

Motorsport Legend George Begg Coming Home
Dec 17, 2019 Motorsport Legend George Begg Coming Home

George Begg is a name those with even a fleeting interest in 1950s and 1960s motorsport admire. Begg had an illustrious career racing motorcycles in Britain and, famously, on the Isle of Man, before he returned home to Southland to open an engineering business. At his workshop in rural Southland Beg

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Motorsport Legend George Begg Coming Home
Motorsport Legend George Begg Coming Home
Dec 17, 2019

George Begg is a name those with even a fleeting interest in 1950s and 1960s motorsport admire. Begg had an illustrious career racing motorcycles in Britain and, famously, on the Isle of Man, before he returned home to Southland to open an engineering business. At his workshop in rural Southland Beg

New Combination Claims Southland Sidecar Championship
New Combination Claims Southland Sidecar Championship
Southland Sport   -   Dec 09, 2019

Despite just a handful of race meetings under their belt as a team, Jason Harpur and swinger James Dawson clinched the Southland Sidecar Championship at Oreti Park Speedway on Saturday night. In just their second season racing as a combination, Harpur and Dawson impressed throughout the heats to car

Chelsea Herbert to Contest 2020 Castrol TRS Series
Chelsea Herbert to Contest 2020 Castrol TRS Series
Southland Sport   -   Nov 27, 2019

New Zealand’s Chelsea Herbert is the first Kiwi to be confirmed for the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series, and only the fifth female driver in the sixteen year history of the championship. Today’s confirmation that Herbert will run the full five round championship with Giles Motorsport under the gui

Tony Richards Toyota to Run Flynn Mullany in Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship
Tony Richards Toyota to Run Flynn Mullany in Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship
Southland Sport   -   Nov 27, 2019

Fresh from the recent FIA Motorsports Games, 17 year old Waimauku racer Flynn Mullany is aiming to make a mark in this season’s Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship. The former karter and 2K Cup racer will compete in the Tony Richards Toyota entry and joins a field of the country’s best young racing tal

Southland’s Jordan Michels Takes New Zealand Endurance Championship Class Title
Southland’s Jordan Michels Takes New Zealand Endurance Championship Class Title
Motor Sport   -   Nov 24, 2019

Just two weeks after sealing the Class B title in the Carter’s Tyre Service South Island 1 Hour Endurance Series, Invercargill racing driver Jordan Michels has added the Class 2 New Zealand 1 Hour Endurance Championship title to his 2019 achievements. The championship was fought out over a single ra

Speedworks Events Premier Meeting Taking Shape
Speedworks Events Premier Meeting Taking Shape
Nov 23, 2019

Drivers from around the world will once again descend on Teretonga Park, Invercargill, from 24-26 January next year as the annual Speedworks Events Motorsport NZ Premier Championship meeting takes place at the circuit. Already six international drivers have been confirmed for the Castrol Toyota Raci

Councillor Tackles Clubsport
Councillor Tackles Clubsport
Southland Sport   -   Nov 14, 2019

Invercargill City Councillor, Darren Ludlow, will take the wheel to compete in a motorkhana event at this Sunday’s round of the Evolution Motorsport Clubsport Championship hosted by the Southland Sports Car Club at Teretonga Park. Ludlow will tackle the motorkhana event in an Evolution Motorsport To

Michels South Island Champion In His Class
Michels South Island Champion In His Class
Southland Sport   -   Nov 13, 2019

After a sensational few weeks in his new Team Williams Racing Honda Civic Fk7 TCR car, Invercargill driver Jordan Michels has taken the Class B Championship in the Carter’s Tyre Service 1 Hour South Island Endurance Series. Michels achieved the feat by winning the class in the first three rounds of

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