Sport + Motorsport

Soaring temperature on Saturday didn’t stop speedway fans from the Riverside Speedway to watch the largest field of six-shooter sprint cars participating in the Southland Championship. Riverside Speedway promoter Dean Miller said the club had embraced The six-shooters grade was introduced a few year

Open Wheel classes will run for championship glory as The Riverside Speedway kick off their first meeting of 2018. The Southland Title will be on the line for Modified Sprints, a title vacant due to not being contested last season, and it would take a brave man to pick a winner with the mixed bag […

Talk about the ultimate sporting juggle. Gifted Southland racquet sports youngster Finn Holden is set to achieve a rare national feat to underline his unique all-round ability. Finn, 14, will play in the New Zealand Junior Tennis Championships and then the New Zealand Table Tennis junior team traini

Invercargill driver Liam MacDonald is keen to extend his record of success at Mike Pero Motorsport Park at Ruapuna in Christchurch when Round 3 of the BNT V8’s Championship takes place at the circuit on the outskirts of the South Island’s largest city this weekend. MacDonald has only paid three visi

Rugby Southland General Manager, Andrew Moreton, has resigned and will be leaving the organisation at the end of February 2018. Moreton joined Rugby Southland in mid-2015. Rugby Southland Board Chair Jason Franklin said today “Andrew has led the organisation well since he joined in mid-2015.  He joi

Southland racer Brendon Leitch will be aiming squarely for the title in the biggest domestic single seater series in his country – the Castrol Toyota Racing Series – when he takes part in his sixth straight campaign in the championship in 2019. Leitch (23) of Invercargill, won races in the category

It was almost becoming a regular occurrence – the sound of a Formula 1 racing car blasting around Teretonga Park near Invercargill on a Friday afternoon. For the last two Friday’s the shrill sound of a Ford Cosworth V8 has echoed around the country’s oldest motor racing circuit powering a mid-1990’s

Rugby Southland has appointed Dave Hewett as the organisation’s new Director of Coaching and SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags coach. Hewett will oversee Rugby Southland’s high-performance programme which will include coaching the SIT Zero Fees Southland Stags in 2018 and 2019. Rugby Southland General M