Sport + Motorsport

Defending champion Carter Strang of Wallacetown and co-driver Stewart Robbie lead the seedings for the MLT/Heartland Hotels Ernslaw One Limited Rankleburn Rally 2020 this Saturday. The duo dominated last year’s event and are favourites again this year. Invercargill driver Mark McMillan will be the s

New Zealand Rugby’s welcomed the Government’s announcement that Auckland will move to Alert Level 1 this week. It means the second Bledisloe Cup test will be played at Eden Park next Sunday, as fans will be allowed to attend. The test would have been moved to Dunedin if Auckland remained at Alert Le

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