Paddon and Kennard show impressive pace in WRC Poland Hayden Paddon and John Kennard impressed many with their pace on the opening stage of day two of WRC Lotos Rally Poland. Piloting their Hyundai i20 WRC car in just their second event with the Hyundai Motorsport team, the Kiwis were second-quickest and just 0.7 seconds […]
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R.I.P Rik Mayall, the man almost solely responsible for forming my concept of humour when I was a young, impressionable lad. Pretty much everything he did – from the glorious anarchy of ‘The Young Ones’ to the surreal blackness of “The Comic Strip Presents…” and the sleazy satire of “The New Statesman” – was hilarious […]
Last week we posted an article about a fascinating documentary about women racing in Palestine called “Speed Sisters”. Well, now it has only two days to go before the deadline for fundraising for the completion of this documentary is up, and they are almost there! As of the writing of this post, the filmmakers have raised $48,805 […]
As Invercargill racing driver Jamie Conroy completed his domination of the 2013/2014 New Zealand Formula Ford Championship at Taupo earlier this year the side of his Mygale Formula Ford carried the words ‘Racing For Wal & George’. The names referred to Wal Willmott, the engineer on Conroy’s all conquering Mygale, while George was George Begg, […]
Lining up against some of the biggest names in the business at the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship’s (GRC) first round in Barbados, Emma Gilmour did herself and New Zealand proud. She was not only the first woman to ever race in this testosterone-fuelled series, she hit jumps, battled for corners with the Ken Block, […]
We here at OVERSTEER get a lot of press releases from various places. A LOT. Some of them are pointless, but a lot of them are rather interesting. And sometimes they just have really awesome photos. Here’s the problem we have – we just don’t have the time to turn every good press release we […]
Autoweek has a brilliant and touching article written by Alain Prost about his old rival Ayrton Senna 20 years after his death. In the article Prost describes their first meeting when he picked a young Senna up from the airport: I met him first in 1984 at the opening of the new Nürburgring GP circuit, […]
Holden has announced the return of one of our favourite-ever hot hatches – the Astra VXR – along with a number of other European-sourced Opel/Vauxhall vehicles to wear the Holden badge in the down-under markets. While no doubt a bid to appear “a bit less Korean” following the imminent demise of the Commodore, the return […]
It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it in German, but Mini New Zealand is planning a remake of a famous scene from one of New Zealand’s most loved movies – the Lake Hawea chase scene from ‘Goodbye Pork Pie’ The scene will be re-cast with the winner from an online competition and a […]
We have just received notification that due to unforeseen circumstances, the date of the event has been moved to Sunday, 1st June 2014, Queens Birthday weekend. Having recently relocated back to New Zealand from Melbourne – and having to transport enough race overalls, limited edition prints, caps, die cast collectable cars and team apparel […]
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