My wife made an offer on a house in New Zealand while vacationing there with her family a few years...
If you are an old car buff, love beautiful scenery and friendly people, and want to visit a place where...
F5000 stalwarts Kevin Bartlett, Howden Ganley and Ken Smith used a visit to a very special workshop in Salinas, California, during the Monterey Motorsport Reunion, to help officially launch the 16th annual SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. This season’s series again kicks off with a round...
2017 Leadfoot Festival, New Zealand, February 4-5, 2017 Like from the musical ‘Porgy and Bess’…“Summertime and the living is easy…” as it...
April 2017 Pit and Paddock – Behind the scenes at UK and European circuits in the ’60s and ’70s By...
The international Diamond Jubilee Formula Junior celebratory Tour, now on its way to North America, got rolling with five race meetings in New Zealand during the Southern Hemisphere summer. With 40 to 50 cars turning out at each of the five circuits hosting races, a huge impression was made with...
I am very pleased to be able to announce that starting with this issue, racing legend and long-time friend of...
This past February, the fifth annual Leadfoot Festival was held at international rally champion Rod Millen’s ranch on the Coromandel...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seater racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
Hampton Downs Raceway, Waikato, New Zealand January 15-17 & 22-24, 2016 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
It’s often said that one of the best aspects of historic racing is the people you meet. Having been around the hobby for a frighteningly long time now, I feel very fortunate to have made so many friends along the way. Whether you live in the U.S., Australia or the...
From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
The Road to Monaco: My Life in Motor Racing By Howden Ganley It all began for Howden Ganley at the...
Former F1 and endurance racer Howden Ganley has received his homeland’s highest motor racing honor, joining former inductees Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme, Chris Amon and others on MotorSport New Zealand’s Wall of Fame. Ganley arrived in England in 1961 and was employee number three hired at the fledgling Team McLaren...
Hampton Downs Raceway Park, NZ January 18–20 & 25–27, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
• Three fixtures of American racing have been inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame. Carroll Shelby, Bobby Rahal and...
The 1950s and ’60s were to many involved in Australian historic motor sport, the halcyon years. It was the time of the Australian Special, the racing of early model Holdens and the Tasman Series. Many names came and went, but quite a few remained and are still well known today...
Bruce McLaren Scrapbook – A Pictorial Celebration of a Kiwi Legend By Jan McLaren and Richard Becht Bruce McLaren was...
Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, North Waikato, NZ January 27–29, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
As you might expect for a site so named, Trackpedia offers a compendium of nearly 1000 racetracks around the world filled with maps, turn-by-turn guides and explanatory videos to provide an idea of what to expect should you go there to race. For each track there is also information about...
1956 Lycoming Special The immediate post World War Two years were best described as austere times for many countries, even...
Hampton Downs Motorsport Park, Auckland, NZ January 21–23 & 28–30, 2011 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
With a dad like Stan Jones it was hardly surprising that Alan became a motor racing nut when he was still a kid. Stan won the 1954 New Zealand International Grand Prix, four 1955 Victorian Trophies at Fisherman’s Bend, Melbourne, became the 1958 Australian Gold Star Champion and won the...
Louis Stanley Rudolf Caracciola 2 First South Africa Grand Prix to be held on the Kyalami track near Johannesburg is...
I think it is easy for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere to underestimate the global racing contributions...
September 2010 DUNEDIN STREET RACE Dear Editor, It has been a few years now since the last running of the Dunedin Street Race and many of you will be wondering about the future of the event. Unfortunately the requirement to upgrade safety significantly resulted in the last event incurring a significant...
A pair of Bruce McLaren Festival weekends will highlight the seventh season of the MSC New Zealand F5000 Tasman Cup...
New Zealand—the homeland of the two most famous drivers of the Can-Am series, Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme—was the host...
Pete Lyons Way back in the Science Fiction period of my youth, I followed a newspaper strip whose title I can’t recall for sure, but it was something like “Alternate Earth.” That’s a common Sci-Fi theme with innumerable variations; this one’s premise involved a duplicate of our planet orbiting diametrically...
