This week we bring you a sobering BLAST FROM THE PAST that reminds us all of the inherent dangers of motorsport. The place was Manfeild in October of 1976. Red Dawson was in his Chevrolet Monza battling with Frank Gardner in the Chevrolet Corvair when he had his horrific accident. Dawson was still in the car when […]
Category: Motorsport
This week we head back to 1965 for the Matamata road race, off the start/finish straight where Rod Coppins in the legendary Zephyr Corvette leads from Bryan Innes in the 1275/93 Morris Cooper S. Thanks, as always, to Terry Marshall for the pic.
For our latest BLAST FROM THE PAST we head to Teretonga for the 1975/76 season – the ShellSport days. Steve Emson leads Trevor Crowe and gets it on two wheels!
Aston Martin is entering the hypercar race with the Vulcan, a limited edition track only special. 24 of the 600kW+ hypercars will be released. XCAR spoke to the car’s designer, Marek Reichman, about his creation.
Let’s be honest here – the Land Rover Defender is God-awful on the road. But off it, it is almost unstoppable! In the latest video from XCAR, they check out the individuals who spend their time generally covered in mud competing in the offroad trials.
Only 100 will ever be made and it’s lighter, faster and stiffer than any standard Vantage. Even though not a lot of them will be made, there is rather a lot to like about the Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Especially that noise. The lads from XCAR get to spend some exclusive time with it in […]
Terry Marshal was at the New Zealand Grand Prix at Manfeild and, once again, provided us with a fantastic gallery of all the action! Canadian Lance Stroll walked away with not only the NZGP trophy, but also the TRS title, wrapping up a dominant season for the 16-year old from Montreal. Read a full report of […]
The first post of a Land Rover Defender double-header today comes from our friends at XCAR who take a look at the inaugural year of the Defender Challenge racing series which saw some of these off-road beasts really show the world what they are capable of. XCAR caught up with the organisers and some of the competitors […]
We head back to Manfeild in 1977 for this week’s BLAST, where Keke Rosberg (#4) leads from Tom Gloy (#7) in a Peter Stuyvesant Formula Pacific race. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the great pic!
Our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week comes to us from Wigram in 1974 and features Teddy Pilette in the VDS Team Chevron B24 heading into the loop on his way to second place in the Lady Wigram Trophy race. As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the brilliant pic!
