Sport + Motorsport

The countdown is officially on to the 15th Burt Munro Challenge, with registrations for the largest rally in the southern hemisphere opening today! Set to be held from the 10 – 14 February 2021, Challenge organisers are looking forward to welcoming new and returning riders, spectators and support cr

The Southland Stags have won at home, beating North Harbour 11 – 10 The Stags unbeaten at home so far in the Mitre Ten Rugby Cup. Today’s result will be a big boost for The Stags as they take on Waikato next weekend. Waikato were beaten by Tasman 34 – 17 in today’s earlier game.

The Rankleburn Rally is on again with a field of cars heading to the Rankleburn Forest in West Otago on Saturday 10 October. The event is organised by the Eastern Southland Car Club with support from MLT / Heartland Hotels and Ernslaw One Limited. Last year’s winners, Carter Strang of Wallacetown an

Andrew Lawrie of Invercargill was the big winner at Round 2 of the Southland Sports Car Club’s Evolution Motorsport ClubSport Championship at Teretonga Park on Sunday. Lawrie, in his Mitsubishi Mirage, won the Motorkhana event in the morning from Craig Allan in a Honda Prelude with Stacy Lines third

New Zealand driver Brendon Hartley has won his second Le Mans 24 hour title after helping Toyota to their third straight win in the French classic. Hartley, Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi guided their Toyota Hybrid number eight car home in the last Le Mans before the start of a new Hypercar era

Southland Football is in the fortunate position of having several youthful referees taking advantage of the pathways the sport offers. Will Dymond is the oldest of a talented trio. Dymond turned twenty earlier this year. Hopes of training to join the police this year were dashed by the Covid outbrea

England Roses shooter George Fisher is looking forward to taking her game to a new level after signing with the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel for the 2021 ANZ Premiership season. The 21-year-old has 12 Test caps for England after making her debut as a teenager, and heads to New Zealand after five

The new harness racing season is well underway with several midweek meetings already completed at both Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill and Central Southland Raceway in Winton. The bigger events of the season are yet to come however and Southern Harness Racing are busy preparing for the height of