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Andre Heimgartner will join the likes of Shane Van Gisbergen and Greg Murphy in this month's race.

Friday, 8 January 2021, 5:04 pm He’s back and Brendon Leitch will start as one of the GP favourites. Picture: Dayle ITM Racing. Invercargills Brendon Leitch will take the wheel of a Castrol Toyota Racing Series car one more time when he steps aboard to try and add his name to the New Zealand Grand Prix Trophy later this month. Twenty five year old Leitch is the most experienced TRS racer in the world having competed in TRS championships in the first generation FT40 car and the more recent F...

Prison chaos: A riotous history of New Zealand jails 3 Jan, 2021 05:17 AM 5 minutes to read Waikeria Prison rioters surrender after six-day stand-off; jail conditions not reason for unrest, says Kelvin Davis. Waikeria Prison rioters surrender after six-day stand-off; jail conditions not reason for unrest, says Kelvin Davis. Prison reform groups and inmate advocates call it a protest. Authorities are more likely to call it a riot. Either way, this weeks mayhem at Waikeria Prison was the most pro...

Hamilton bypass: Just 365 sleeps to go until completion of Waikato Expressway 1 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 6 minutes to read This time next summer, motorists will be able to skip Hamilton on a new section of highway. No more deciding how to tackle local roads, roundabouts and sets of traffic lights; no more Gordonton Rd shortcuts; no more taking a wrong turn and getting lost. Whats more, after what seems like a lifetime, State Highway 1 from Auckland to south of Cambridge will be four...

Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 2:02 pm   Rising Dunedin racing star Josh Bethune has today confirmed his entry into the 2021 Castrol Toyota Racing Series and he is looking forward to competing against a high class field of Kiwi racing superstars.   The 17 year old is the latest driver to join the 2021 Castrol TRS Championship. He will contest all three rounds of the series starting with the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix at Hampton Downs over the weekend of January 22-24. He joins a star-studded en...

"Most of all though, its going to be great to be part of the grand prix and the series... “Every Kiwi driver knows how cool that would be and what an honour it would be to have my name on there with some of my motorsport heroes and mentors." Before switching to circuit racing, Ngatoa, 19, was one of the countrys most successful karting talents. He started karting in 2011 and shot to prominence by winning the cadet class of the NZ CIK Trophy. Two seasons later he was on the top step of the...

Greg Murphy has sampled the FT60 and will test again before the GP. Picture TGRNZ Murphy, the four-time Bathurst winner, took the chequered flag and etched his name onto the famous New Zealand Grand Prix trophy as a 21-year-old before going on to a successful Supercars career. He followed in the footsteps of legendary world-renowned Formula 1 drivers like Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jack Brabham and Sir Jackie Stewart. Kiwi icons Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon also featured as winners of the race bef...

Feature The ex-military, gay, Lamborghini-driving CEO of Rocketwerkz is one of the highest profile figures in New Zealand gaming. Michael Andrew went to the new Auckland office to meet the man known as “rocket”. “It’s the fastest lift in the country,” said Rocketwerkz’s chief operating officer Stephen Knightly before we shot to the top of the new PWC building at eight metres a second. I’d heard about the elevator, but I couldn’t quite prepare for the way my ears popped, nor the ...

Cheaper than last years model Cons You bonk your head on the roof getting in first time Interior is pure BMW How’s this for covering all the angles? Joining the Toyota GR Yaris on track at Hampton Downs  for a media day last month was the 2021 Supra, circulating back-to-back with a 2020 model so we could see how just how the times were changing for Toyota’s coupe. At the end of the day, we took the 2021 model away to spend some time on real-world roads. So what’s changed? There’s a 35k...

Friday, 18 December 2020, 7:00 pm | Hampton Downs Team Two time New Zealand Grand Prix winner Daniel Gaunt will be on the grid for the 2021 event and intends to be a force to be reckoned with when the lights go out and the big race gets underway on January 24th around the Hampton Downs international ... More >>