Sport + Motorsport

The Barry Robinson Memorial Rally Southland, Round 3 of the Brian Green Property Group NZ Rally Championship (NZRC), comes to the roads of the south this weekend and the best news of all is that a young Southlander leads the championship points for co-drivers going into the round. Twenty-three-year-old Hayden

Eighteen-year-old race driver Jacob Begg from Winton in Central Southland has received the opportunity of a lifetime as he heads to Europe to take up a testing and evaluation programme with Leipert Motorsport in a Lamborghini Super Trofeo Evo 2. It all started with an email that was almost too

Carter Strang of Wallacetown is a familiar sight in rallies in his Mitsubishi EVO 10 but when he lines up for the Barry Robinson Memorial Rally Southland on Saturday 18 July he will be at the wheel of a brand spanking new GR Toyota Yaris. The Toyota is one of

Southland motorcycle racer Cormac Buchanan has finished 13th at the Moto3 World Championship round in Germany, his best result of the 2026 season and a badly needed confidence boost after a difficult start to the year. The Sachsenring circuit suited Buchanan from the first session. He went P9 in FP1

The Barry Robinson Memorial Rally Southland, Round 3 of the Brian Green Property Group NZ Rally Championship, has scored a major coup with the entry of top New Zealand driver Hayden Paddon into the event on Saturday 18 July. Paddon, the first kiwi to win a World Rally Championship (WRC)

The Southland Sharks beat the Nelson Giants 83–71 on Saturday night, grinding out a win that required a strong fourth quarter to seal. It wasn't clean. Nelson came out sharp, with Shane Gatling draining two threes in the first quarter off the back of a 56-point team

Liam MacDonald of Invercargill has taken the Southland Sports Car Club Champions Trophy for the thirteenth time. His achievement was recognised at the club's 2024/2025 season prizegiving at Teretonga Park in Invercargill on Monday night. MacDonald first won the trophy in 2013 and has won it every

Josh Cooper of Cromwell, a competitor in the upcoming Barry Robinson Memorial Rally Southland, Round 3 of the Brian Green Property Group NZ Rally Championship, started his motorsport journey in Invercargill. He first competed in ClubSport events, winning several class titles as well as being named the Junior Driver Of