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 […]
Tag: Motorsport
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 […]
We head back to Pukekohe in 1973 for this week’s BLAST, where Jim Richards – in the winning Charger he drove with Rod Coppins – exits the hairpin during the Benson and Hedges 500. Thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic.
For our BLAST FROM THE PAST this week Kieran Roberts takes us to Levin in 1967 with the legendary Robbie Francevic behind the wheel of the equally legendary Custaxie. From Kieran’s website: “The Custaxie name came from an amalgamation of a 1955 Ford Customline fitted with a 7-litre Ford Galaxie engine, Francevic’s team making full use of New […]
I got my first motorcycle in 1992. I was sixteen. The steed I purchased from my friend Mike was a 1986 Honda NS250R, a screaming little 33kW, two-stroke, 250cc crutch rocket. Back then, the law stated that any bike 250cc or under was suitable for a learner, despite the fact that these two-strokes put out […]
While, like most photographers, he struggles with the basics of etiquette, polite interaction and inappropriate touching, Terry Marshall does take a damn fine photograph. He proves that once more with this spectacular Photo Gallery from the revived Race to the Sky event at Cardrona in Queenstown! You can see the final results here: Repco RTTS final overall results […]
This weeks BLAST is another piece of Kieran Roberts’ great art – Jackie’s Green Hell. Let’s hear from the artist himself about this piece, this is from his website: Jackie Stewart on his way to victory in the Tyrrell 006 in 1973 at one of his least favourite tracks, the Nurburgring, which he nicknamed ‘the green […]
Mario Torrado is an amazing guitarist. Although, having said that, we have no idea if he can actually play music on one. But he doesn’t need to, because Mario can play F1 car sounds and he does it brilliantly! The video above shows Mario reproducing Rubens Barrichello’s pole lap record of Monza in a V10 […]
This week’s BLAST comes to us from Wigram in 1976, when Allan Moffat bought over his Chev Monza to take on the kiwi big guns of Richards. Leonard, Dawson and Nazer. Many thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic!
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