It’s back to the days of the Big Bangers – Pukekohe 1973 – for this week’s BLAST where Pete Geoghegan’s battered Ford Falcon leads fellow Australian Allan Moffat’s Ford Mustang out of the top chicane. As always, many thanks to the talented Terry Marshall for the fantastic pic.
Category: Motorsport
For our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week Kieran Roberts takes us back to 1977 with John Watson at the wheel of the Alfa Romeo-powered Brabham BT45, in the iconic Martini Racing – Alfa colours. Thanks again to Kieran for letting us use his brilliant work and don’t forget to head to his websitewww.kieranrobertsart.com to see more, or buy some […]
If you are into serious machines going very quickly over ground they have no business going so quickly on, then get yourself out to Woodhill forest (north of Auckland, by Muriwai beach) this weekend for the brilliant Woodhill 100! The organisers are promising a “titanic battle under the pines” for the event, as a record […]
TARGA BAMBINA WIN PART OF SEASON PLAN – INKSTER Winning this year’s Targa Bambina which finished in Rotorua on Sunday May 17 was all part of a plan for the country’s top tarmac motor rally duo, Glenn Inkster and Spencer Winn and their Ecolight Mitsubishi Evo 8. Inkster, from Patumahoe near Pukekohe, and Winn, from […]
We are off to Timaru in 1975 for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST, and the infamous clash into turn 1 between Leo Leonard and the PDL Ford Mustang and Paul Fahey in his Cologne Capri, that in Leo’s opinion decided the 1975 Championship. As always, many thanks to Terry Marshall for the brilliant pic!
For no better reason other than we stumbled across it on YouTube late last night and had to tear our eyes from the screen to go to bed, today we bring you the complete 720p HD version of the classic Steve McQueen vanity project; Le Mans! Possibly the ultimate vanity project, Le Mans is one hours […]
Stadium Trucks; who was insane enough to come up with that idea? We don’t know, but we would LOVE to shake his hand, because, Holy Shit, they are awesome! And this video from the latest round at Adelaide (Yes, they are THAT close to us!) just proves how awesome they are – Sheldon Creed was […]
Terry Marshall was at Rally Otago, where Hayden Paddon took a stunning outright victory in a 40 year old BDA Escort that was entered in the Classic class – the first time anyone has won a round of Rally NZ in a 2WD car since 1987! Oh, and some bloke called Ken Block was there […]
XCAR visits Williams F1 to have a look inside their Advanced Engineering department and how they are changing motorsports.
Lotus F1 driver Pastor Maldonado has something of a reputation as an off-road driver/one man car destruction team, and it now seems that Lotus have decided to embrace that with their latest F1 car. Featuring chunky off-road tyres, spikes, skulls, armour and flame throwers, it would seem to be a car custom-designed for Maldonado’s driving […]
