Hopes of Indycar staging a race in New Zealand remain a pipe dream at the moment despite talk of Pukekohe Park Raceway attempting to entice the American series Down Under.
I was at the launch of the 2018 Supercars' drivers at Fox Studios in Sydney last week and the category do really know how to put on a show. The best thing for New Zealand is there are five full time drivers in the line up and all of them are capable of winning a race, and three of them are title contenders.
With some down time before any schedule racing series kick off in 2018, American driver JM Correa, along with his race engineer, would enter and compete at the Castrol Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand with M2 Competition. With the goal to gain valuable seat time and develop a high quality working relationship, the duo went on to score a pair of victories and one pole position as they competed through New Zealand for the past five weeks.
Veteran speedway racer Kerry Brocas has stunned Michael Pickens to win the New Zealand Sprint Car title at Vodafone Speedway Western Springs on Saturday night.The 55-year-old Aucklander was considered an unlikely winner leading.
A gap is starting to open up at the top of the New Zealand Superbike Championship standings after another scintillating performance from former national champion Sloan Frost at the weekend. ...