Sport + Motorsport

Junior representative sport has been a hot topic of conversation lately, with many sporting organisations making decisions to cull junior representative programmes. Touch Southland have endeavoured to flip this script somewhat, in fact completely. Over the past seven weeks, more than 300 children ar

Matt Tautari has been a familiar name in Southland golf since he made his debut for the province about 20 years ago. Now the talented golfer, who plays out of Invercargill Golf Club, has celebrated his 100th game for the region at senior level – and is eyeing 150 and beyond. Tautari started playing

George Begg is a name those with even a fleeting interest in 1950s and 1960s motorsport admire. Begg had an illustrious career racing motorcycles in Britain and, famously, on the Isle of Man, before he returned home to Southland to open an engineering business. At his workshop in rural Southland Beg

Daniel Jones and Ruby Muir have made triumphant returns in difficult conditions at the 2019 Fresh Choice Kepler Challenge today. Sustained rainfall in the Fiordland region in recent weeks had forced race organisers to use an alternative route for just the third time in the Challenge’s 32-year histor

Despite just a handful of race meetings under their belt as a team, Jason Harpur and swinger James Dawson clinched the Southland Sidecar Championship at Oreti Park Speedway on Saturday night. In just their second season racing as a combination, Harpur and Dawson impressed throughout the heats to car

New Zealand’s Chelsea Herbert is the first Kiwi to be confirmed for the 2020 Castrol Toyota Racing Series, and only the fifth female driver in the sixteen year history of the championship. Today’s confirmation that Herbert will run the full five round championship with Giles Motorsport under the gui

Fresh from the recent FIA Motorsports Games, 17 year old Waimauku racer Flynn Mullany is aiming to make a mark in this season’s Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship. The former karter and 2K Cup racer will compete in the Tony Richards Toyota entry and joins a field of the country’s best young racing tal

Just two weeks after sealing the Class B title in the Carter’s Tyre Service South Island 1 Hour Endurance Series, Invercargill racing driver Jordan Michels has added the Class 2 New Zealand 1 Hour Endurance Championship title to his 2019 achievements. The championship was fought out over a single ra