Tasman Holiday

While the Northern Hemisphere battens down against winter, we here in Australia and New Zealand are reaching for our suntan cream and heading for the beach, while our motorsport continues right the year round.

Major events such as the Australian and New Zealand Grands Prix have historically been held during the southern summer and before WW2 attracted the occasional overseas driver to compete on our shores in borrowed cars. However, such participation did tend to be a little spasmodic due to the vast distances between Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world. The introduction of economical international air travel soon put paid to this tyranny of distance and opened up a new motor racing circus in far warmer climates.