Thomasen survives ice challenge to dominate Nelson enduro Tauranga’s Ben Thomasen wasn’t keen on crashing through 10mm-thick ice in his Polaris RZR 1000, but he did what was required at the two-day 2014 Total Lubricants New Zealand Endurance Championship held at Dovedale over the weekend. The event is the toughest offroad race on the 2014 New Zealand competition calendar, and bitterly cold […]
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Continental Cars back special Porsche shootout at CRC Speedshow A Porsche Cayman sporting the familiar and iconic Martini Racing livery will take centre stage in CRC Speedshow’s live action arena this weekend. In a fun challenge, five drivers will strive for their best lap time in the Porsche Cayman in the Continental Cars Supercar Challenge; […]
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, […]
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 […]
Here is the latest peek at the progress of the OVERSTEER game, now featuring an in-car camera angle! Have a closer look though – the sharp-eyed among you may notice something else different…
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