Sport/Motorsport

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

A massive entry of eighty-eight cars will start the 2019 Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday. Defending champion and four-time winner Andrew Graves of Gore is once again the top seed in his venerable Mitsubishi EVO 3. Graves’ wins have come in 2010, 2013, 2017 and again last year. He has twice been runn

Southland racer Brendon Leitch has recorded his strongest performance of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series so far, taking a win and a second in the Pro-Am class and an overall podium result at the Yeongam circuit in South Korea over the weekend. The Dayle ITM and Lamborghini Auckland driver w

Jordan Michels of Invercargill has returned from his initial outing in the carsales TCR Australia Series at Queensland Raceway full of enthusiasm. Michels had received a last minute opportunity to drive a Wall Racing Honda Civic Type R and impressed despite battling illness part of the weekend. Mich

New Zealand Speedways night of nights, the New Zealand Speedway Awards was held recently in Auckland and Speedway in the South took home its best ever haul of silverware with six awards coming South. X Factor Cars Riverside Speedway Commentator Daryl Shuttleworth scooped the Commentator Of The Year

Defending Catlins Coast Rally champion Andrew Graves of Gore is looking to add yet another southern rally to his tally when he contests the 2019 Catlins Coast Rally on Saturday 10 August. Graves is striving for his fifth win in the event this year having already won it in 2010, 2013, 2017 and again

He may have celebrated forty years of rally competition back in 2017 but Dave Jenkins of Gropers Bush near Riverton is not slowing down one bit. Jenkins will contest the Catlins Coast Rally for the first time since 2015 when the event takes place on Saturday 10 August and he will do so on the […]