The first F5000 car: This post has appeared on the F5000 Facebook page, but we figure it deserves a place here too. In May 1967 George Begg designed and knocked up, in six weeks, a single seater racing car powered by a standard Chev V8 motor with upturned “BRM” style stub exhausts. It was a […]
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The news today that Shane van Gisbergen is quitting the Australian V8 scene and returning home is obviously rocking the V8 Fans to the core. But below is a piece I wrote two weeks ago for the NZ Motor Racing Weekly email letter. I believe the glory days are over — and not just because […]
OVERSTEER looks at what is becoming increasingly obvious as a crisis time for motor racing in Auckland. (Hold cursor over image for caption) The situation in the Auckland area over motor racing facilities is so farcical you’d not believe it, if it weren’t true. After years of being pronounced dead and the corpse being allowed […]
Kimi Räikkönen has shown that old German bloke how a comeback should happen with his brilliant win at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Now he does that rarest of things and speaks of his win and how he plans to celebrate that win. Check out the last answer; he hopes to make it home at […]
The Highlands Motorsport Park project at Cromwell is the most exciting and innovative thing to have happened to New Zealand motorsport since the invention of the wheel. OVERSTEER has been for a look around the track and its facilities (Please hold cursor over photograph to read the captions) One of the construction marvels of New […]
(Please hold your cursor over the images to see the caption) When it comes to talk of motor racing circuits, the inherent dangers of Pukekohe with its fences, narrow space between track and spectators, power poles and trains, doesn’t hold a candle to what they call, the Green Hell — the Nurburgring. I first drove […]
These are two quite famous and historic motor racing shots that show how misleading still photographs can be. The first was taken in the first British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1948. On lap 23 Geoffrey Ansell driving this prewar ERA B-Type lost control, went into a wild slide, the tyres dug in and the […]
It this age of sterility, it’s difficult to imagine the sense of anticipation there used to be leading up to the first race meeting of each season. Were all of the between-season rumours true? Had Scott Jacobsen really imported a new Shelby Mustang, how was Johnny Black going to go? He was the kid who […]
Didier Debae, CEO of V8 SuperTourers, today announced that the UDC-sponsored V8 Ute series would run at all six rounds of the SuperTourer series from 2013, as part of a three year category agreement that would see V8 Ute drivers also get the opportunity to compete for the annual V8ST scholarship, as well as having […]
During this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, former Formula 1 driver Anthony Davidson suffered a terrifying high-speed accident at the wheel of the #8 Toyota TS030 Hybrid when he was hit by a lapped car. Davidson was able to free himself from the car, but was taken to hospital suffering from shock and complaining of […]
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