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Rookie racer claims a maiden Toyota Racing Series victory, then defies car dramas to go back-to-back.

He has raced every year in Timaru since Super Truck Racing started 20 years ago. “Timaru always supported us when our numbers were low. They helped keep the sport going.” Wheeler has won the New Zealand Super Truck championship for the past five years and leads the championship this season on 62 points after the first round at Manfeild. Timaru is the second round with the last two rounds at Teretonga and Ruapuna in March. Racing Super Trucks, he says, all comes down to reliability. The monster trucks have to be operational otherwise any championship hopes go out the window. “Relia...

Bejon Haswell/Stuff Mitchell Hamilton, left, and Trevor Morse are ready for Sports Saloon Cup racing at the Thunder Down Under meeting at Timaru’s Levels Raceway. Not even Covid-19 is expected to stop the roar of engines gathering for the annual Thunder Down Under at Levels Raceway. Sports Saloon Cup series section co-ordinator Mitchell Hamilton said the January 30-31 event is set to be the biggest gathering at Levels Raceway for sometime. Hamilton was rapt with the expected turnout, with 38 cars registered in the SS Cup section racing, and about 200 vehicles across the various categories...

Motorsport: Shane van Gisbergen wins New Zealand Grand Prix from last 24 Jan, 2021 07:45 AM 3 minutes to read Eric Thompson is a motorsport writer for NZME Shane van Gisbergen put on an extraordinary exhibition to take out the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix — delivering a show not seen in the Toyota Racing Series since its 2005 inception. Van Gisbergen started dead last from pit lane but took the chequered flag at the end of 28 laps from Andre Heimgartner and Matthew Payne. Van Gisbergen didn't make it out of pit lane for the formation lap due to his fire extinguisher going off in the car. The...

Friday, 22 January 2021, 4:12 pm Multiple international champion and former Team New Zealand A1GP driver Chris van der Drift fired the opening shot in the first major practice session at the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix at Hampton Downs this afternoon.   He waited until the second half of the session before posting a flat 1 minute 31 second lap, which was enough to see him go fastest overall by just over a tenth of a second. With most of the drivers opting to run on old tyres before changing to new rubber, the session provided the first glimpse of the likely pacesetters over the forthcoming ...