With today’s shakedown sessions now complete, Kiwi rally stars Hayden Paddon and John Kennard are all set for the next three days of international competition as the 2014 World Rally Championship’s tenth round takes place in Australia. Paddon has been looking forward to the 12-14 September running of the Coates Hire Rally Australia all season. […]
Category: Motorsport
Many mighty Ford Capris have thundered around New Zealand race tracks – this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST is of Bill Leckie’s Capri Chevrolet pounding Ruapuna in the 75/76 season. As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic.
Go on, admit it – you want a dog just like this one! And a Ford Fiesta ST. And the ability to drive like Vaughn Gittin Jr.
We head to Levin for this week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST where the Titan Formula Ford’s of Dave McMillan and Graham Baker continue their season long battle during the 1972/73 season. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic!
It’s a Sunday evening with nothing on television. So what else is new? Of course, you should have Netflix, but in case you haven’t, here is some fantastic Sunday evening viewing for you – KAZ: Pushing The Virtual Divide. Originally released on Hulu, KAZ:Pushing The Virtual Divide is a brilliant documentary about Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator […]
This week’s BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from the BNSW 1000cc Mini days. 1972 at Baypark and Barrie Philips passes the crashed car of champion Rod Collingwood. Thanks again to Terry Marshall for the fantastic pic!
After lots of teasing Renault has finally released pictures, video-gamey style video and specifications of its spectacular Renault Sport R.S 01 that will make up a large part of the French manufacturer’s motorsport plans in the near future, including being the basis of its own one-make racing series. Built on a Dallara carbon monocoque chassis and […]
Your mind will try and reject this video – it simply looks wrong and, at first, you will assume it is being played backwards. It isn’t. This strangely spectacular accident happened in practice for the GP3 round at Spa this weekend. The driver, 20 year-old Konstantin Tereshchenko, was making his debut when he decided that his […]
Timaru in 1975 is the location for this week’s BLAST – Brett Riley in the Begg JM1, the car built mostly by Jim Murdoch to George Begg’s design. Thanks to Terry Marshall!
While we are the first to recoil in horror at some of the so-called “talent” that those awful, vapid reality shows like X-factor and “Insert Country Here”s Got Talent vomit forth onto the world, we have to admit that this former ‘Australia’s Got Talent’ contestant has some serious talent… Don’t worry, he isn’t going to […]
