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Huge Field For 2019 Catlins Coast Rally
Huge Field For 2019 Catlins Coast Rally
Sport/Motorsport   -   Aug 09, 2019

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

Breakthrough Weekend For Leitch In Korea
Breakthrough Weekend For Leitch In Korea
Sport/Motorsport   -   Aug 08, 2019

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

Michels Enthused After TCR Round In Australia
Michels Enthused After TCR Round In Australia
Sport/Motorsport   -   Aug 08, 2019

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

Southern Speedway Shines At Gala Awards
Southern Speedway Shines At Gala Awards
Sport/Motorsport   -   Aug 04, 2019

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 Champion Strives For Five
Defending Champion Strives For Five
Sport/Motorsport   -   Aug 02, 2019

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

No Slowing Down For Club Champion
No Slowing Down For Club Champion
Sport/Motorsport   -   Jul 31, 2019

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 […]

Invercargill’s Jordan Michels To Tackle TCR Round In Australia
Invercargill’s Jordan Michels To Tackle TCR Round In Australia
Sport/Motorsport   -   Jul 31, 2019

Current NZ F1600 Champion Jordan Michels of Invercargill has been signed by Wall Racing of Australia to drive its third Honda Civic Type R at Round 4 of the carsales TCR Australia Series at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich this weekend. “It’s very exciting. It’s all a bit last minute, but I’m genuinely

George Bennett & Tom Scully: A Tale Of Two Tours
George Bennett & Tom Scully: A Tale Of Two Tours
Sport + Motorsport   -   Jul 30, 2019

George Bennett and Tom Scully made it through 21 days of some of the most entertaining racing in recent Tour de France history with very different races, but the duo lit up the final stage in Paris and can come away with their heads held high. Between three Kiwis our hopes were high of a […]

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