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"Most of all though, it's 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 country's 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 championship podium again, winning the 100cc junior restricted class of the Kartsport NZ North Is...

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 before Murphy’s 1994 victory helped launch his international career. “It was obviously the most sig...

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 sickly way central Auckland’s streets immediately vanished from sight through the floor to ceiling...

Cheaper than last year's 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 35kW power bump to 285kW, which completely coincidentally takes the Toyota upwards to match the BMW Z4...

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 >>