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 […]
Tag: Motorsport
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 […]
This week’s Terry Marshall BLAST FROM THE PAST comes from Wigram in January 1975. Paul Fahey in the Cologne Capri hunts down Jim Richards in the Sidchrome Mustang. Check out the battle damage on both cars! As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the pic!
While motorsport seems to have caught Hollywood’s attention again (for better or for worse…), it is easy to forget the incredible amount of utterly brilliant motorsport documentaries that pop up each year. The latest of those is “Speed Sisters”, a documentary that is in production now that tells the story of the first and only all-female, […]
This week’s BLAST comes from BayPark in 1974 and features a collection of very serious muscle. Graham Baker, in the PDL Mustang, leads Allan Moffat in the #33 Mustang, Red Dawson (Camaro), Paul Fahey (Cologne Capri) and Rod Coppins (Pontiac Firebird). As always, thanks to Terry Marshall for the wonderful pic.
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, […]
This is rather old, but it is utterly spectacular. Head to the 1 minute 13 second mark if you are impatient, but that build up is worth it for the spectacular payoff!
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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