Motorsport

Highlands 101 in pictures

Here is some of the wonderful photography of Terry Marshall from the recent Highlands 101 event. We REALLY wish we had managed to get there now… There are no captions, ‘cos we weren’t there and Terry is far too grumpy for us to bother for some (just kidding, he’s really lovely. If a bit worrying…) […]

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Classic

Something old…

Yesterday we posted our coverage of the magnificent new Bentley Flying Spur, which we rather liked. Today we head back in time a wee bit to (almost) the beginnings of Bentley. The Flying Spur launch was held at Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell and, as they only had two Flying Spurs available for road drives, […]

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OVERSTEER on The Crowd Goes Wild

While they didn’t mention the name of the website and edited out the bit where I told the New Guy that I was going to crush him like a bug, that was still me on the telly on Prime’s The Crowd Goes Wild looking like a fat git in a pink vest. You may notice […]

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Baird sets Highlands lap record

Just the thing for a lazy Easter weekend – watch Craig Baird set the lap record – 1 minute 41.9 seconds – at the opening of the awesome Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell. Baird is driving a McLaren MP4-12C purchased by Highlands’ owner, Tony Quinn, specially to set the first lap record. The whole thing […]

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Motorsport News

Why Highlands?

WHY HIGHLANDS?: By now, it’s probably pretty well understood that Highlands Motorsport Park near Cromwell is not going to be just another motor racing circuit on the Ruapuna, Levels, Teretonga loop. While there will be motor racing meetings, these will be restricted under the terms of the resource consent and those meetings will not necessarily […]

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