Motor Sport

The Southland Sports Car Club held its annual marshall training day at Teretonga Park, Invercargill on Saturday 24 August. Forty marshalls attended the day which covered a variety of topics including first aid, stabilisation of vehicles, flag waving, report writing, the season calendar plus discussi

Each year Teretonga Park offers Southlanders plenty – international events, top class motor racing and some very special race cars and trucks. Every season promises much and generally every season delivers’ on that promise and even though it has been said in the past the 2019/2020 season could be on

The meeting was The Invercargill round of the Southern Series / Mainland series  held at the  Kartsport Southland Invercargill Oil Shop Raceway on Saturday August 18th . The meeting attracted 69 entries from Southland , Otago , Canterbury , Westland and Nelson regions . The Otago round was held on S

It has been a very big couple of months for 12 year old Invercargill karter Alex Crosbie. Crosbie competed in the New Zealand National Schools Kartsport Championship in Wellington during the recent school holidays before travelling to Melbourne for the City Of Melbourne Titles early in August. At th

The Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport Clubsport Championship got underway at Teretonga Park on Sunday with excellent numbers contesting both the Motorkhana and Autocross events. A record number of forty-six entries tackled the three motorkhana tests in the morning with the youngest co

Garet and Gemma Thomas of Darfield won the Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday in a dramatic finish. The husband and wife team only took the lead on the final stage in a Subaru WRX Sti. The duo had cause for double celebration as their victory also gave them the Mainland Rally Series drivers and co-driv

Garet and Gemma Thomas of Darfield won the Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday in a dramatic finish. The husband and wife team only took the lead on the final stage in a Subaru WRX Sti. The duo had cause for double celebration as their victory also gave them the Mainland Rally Series drivers and co-driv

Southland teen Cormac Buchanan will head to Spain in October to pursue his goal of competing on the world stage. Currently racing in Australia’s bLU cRU Oceania Junior Cup, Buchanan is one of two riders from the academy programme to be nominated to attend the prestigious Red Bull Rookies Cup selecti