Motoring

Rain causing a soaked track has lead to the decision by organisers of Friday’s Vertex Super Cup meeting at Riverside Speedway to be rescheduled to today. Speedway promotions officer Dean Miller said: the track was “too wet” to race on we’ll grade the track in the morning and prepare it for racing [o

Sunday is Southland Transport Invercargill Truck Parade. Parade Route Change Due to the Roadworks east of Tweed Street/Lindisfarne Roundabout, The route is along Bond Street, down Tweed street and we will now turn left onto Lindisfarne Street, right onto Otepuni Ave finished 100m short of Inglewood

One of the rarest trucks in the world, Bill Richardson Transport World’s 1940 Dodge Airflow a.k.a. the ‘Texaco Tanker’ will be driven in the Southland Truck Parade this weekend. Never paraded in New Zealand, it is considered so unique and rare it is highly unlikely that the Texaco Tanker will ever b

Three top New Zealand race drivers converged on the spectacular Circuit of the Americas in Texas over the weekend, but only two came away with victory. Racing in FIA Formula 4 USA alongside the high profile FIA World Endurance Championship, Southland race driver Brendon Leitch was figuratively rubbi

Two exciting endurance races launched the 2017/2018 motor race season at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this weekend. Series sponsors Matt & Dwayne Carter of Auckland won the feature race on Saturday, the opening round of the 2017 Carter’s Tyre Service South Island 3 Hour Endurance Series, in their

Porsche, Lotus and Mercedes – there will be some sensational cars on the grid when the 2017/18 motor racing season begins at Teretonga Park near Invercargill this weekend. The opening round of the 2017 Carters Tyre Service South Island Endurance Series heads the action on Saturday with the 1 Hour ra

Southland race driver Brendon Leitch is celebrating an ‘unbelievable’ breakthrough race winning weekend in the FIA Formula 4 USA Championship having won the rain-affected opening race at the Mid Ohio circuit and taken podiums in the following two to win the weekend outright.   Leitch is contesting t

One highlight during Saturday’s Catlins Coast Rally action was Australian John Spencer gets his Datsun 1600FJ high on two wheels . Spencer finished seventeenth overall and second in his class. While top seed Andrew Graves of Gore along with co-driver Jared Leebody won his third Catlins Coast Rally w