The first round of The Surgery Sprints was hosted by the Triumph Owners Club.It's Round 1 for 2019, and what a turn out we had. A great start to this year's season, with many of our regulars, and loads of new faces, great to see. Everyone enjoyed the day, the BBQ lunch and prize giving. Looking forward to seeing you at Round...
The HistoryLeadfoot Festival is probably the best motorsports event in New Zealand. Originally staged as a 60th birthday party for Rod Millen, he decided to open it up to the public, and it has grown from there. Modelled on the famous Goodwood hillclimb event, this is the closest you’ll get in New Zealand to Lord March’s British...
It has been a frustrating few weeks, with it not feeling like I've made any real progress on the car. But I have got a few things done and solved a couple of issues.Rusty has failed another two WoF inspections, one of which I'm not happy about. But back to the start of the story - Rusty decided halfway through being detailed that it...
After a red flag halted the second WorldSBK race at Imola the 18-lap restart saw KRT riders Jonathan Rea and Tom Sykes finish second and third respectively. In the championship standings Jonathan increased his championship advantage to 74 points, with Tom now in third place and 75 points from the lead.On a day laden with delays and...
On Sunday the 23rd of April, round one of the 2017 Surgery Sprints kicked off at Manfield Circuit Chris Amon. Feilding squeezes in the last of the good weather before the winter months with a perfectly clear blue sky all day. And with any race day, if you have good weather, you get a great turnout, with just under 60 different types of...
Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) continued his perfect start to the latest FIM Superbike World Championship campaign on the Ninja ZX-10RR by taking his second win of the weekend today and his fourth in succession. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) had his best finish of the year in second place, in a second race, which was shortened to...
It needed to be a fight-back of epic proportions, but Wellington's Sloan Frost and his Suzuki GSX-R1000 were up for it.The final weekend of racing in this season's New Zealand Superbike Championships at Hampton Downs at the weekend went right down to the wire, with Frost sensationally overcoming a massive points deficit to eventually...
Haven’t heard of the Super Formula racing series? Don’t worry, up until very recently neither had I. That’s what I love about living in Japan, every day is a new learning day and knowing about Japan’s domestic top-tier racing series is just one of the many new things I’ve learnt here.Think of Super Formula as being more...
Do you remember the Porsche 918 that did a 6:57.00 lap of the mighty Nürburgring. Well Lamborghini just waltzed up and smashed it to pieces, beating it by 5 whole seconds. Its an amazing video to watch, the car looks to be right on the edge, while seeming to effortlessly flow from one corner to the next. Impreesive feat by the driver,...
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