Sport & Motorsport

An exciting day of racing opened the UCI Oceania Track Cycling Championships supported by GJ Gardner Homes Waipa, at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome, Cambridge today. Elite Women 4000m Team Pursuit The New Zealand combination of Samantha Donnelly, Bryony Botha, Prudence Fowler and Ally Wollaston qualified fastest in 4:14.489

The tickets are on sale as a flock of Ford’s, a hoard of Holden’s, a bevy of BMW’s and a pack of Porsches – plus plenty more exciting machinery - head south for the 2026 Ascot Park Hotel Classic SpeedFest over the weekend of 21/22 February. Classes

A former Southlander has added a $40,000 race bike to his garage, though he admits high-speed action will remain in the air rather than on the track. Auckland-based pilot Trevor Lawson was drawn as the winner of a brand new Yamaha YZF-R6 race-prepped motorcycle at the Burt Munro Challenge.

One international motor racing event has already been run and won at Teretonga Park in Invercargill this year but the Southland Sports Car Club are already looking to the next event featuring drivers from several different countries. The Ascot Park Hotel Classic SpeedFest will be held over the weekend of

After a dry spell in the south, the heavens opened as the Ascot Park Hotel Teretonga Park International, part of the Repco NextGen NZ Championship, was held over the weekend. It wasn’t until Sunday afternoon that any of the six classes on the programme managed to race in dry

Two red flags brought about an early conclusion to the first race of Round 3 of the 2025/2026 Nexen Tyre Mazda Racing Super Series at Teretonga Park in Invercargill today, with Hamilton rookie Tomas Climo in front at the flag. Wet conditions prevailed throughout the day, but rookie James

Wet weather added an extra layer of challenge as the first day of motor racing got underway at the Ascot Park Hotel Teretonga Park International meeting, part of the Repco NextGen NZ Championship, at Teretonga Park in Invercargill today. The wet conditions created plenty of havoc, with the safety car

Cambridge cyclist Matthew Wilson delivered a standout performance in the individual time trial to win stage seven of the rescheduled 2025 SBS Bank Tour of Southland. Wilson, riding for the Advanced Personnel Cycling Team, clocked 15 minutes 48 seconds on the 13km Winton course. Logan Currie (Open Country-TES) followed in