Kiwi driver Hayden Paddon has been dropped by his Hyundai team for next month’s Rally of Spain. Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen has switched from Citroen to Hyundai for the remainder of the World Rally Championship, taking Paddon’s seat for Spain and throwing his future there in doubt. Paddon’s struggled through 2017 to date, failed to finish […]
Read moreHis name has been given to streets, an apartment complex, retirement village and even a school, but now the name of New Zealand Motor Racing great Bruce McLaren has it’s perfect place: over a circuit. The Taupo Motorsport Park has been renamed the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in honour of the founder of the Formula […]
Read moreLeading experts at Britain’s Royal College of Anaesthetists have spoken out to play down a report suggesting Formula One ace Jenson Button was drugged and burgled at a luxury villa, insisting it is “simply not possible” to render victims unconscious with nitrous oxide. Button hit headlines on Friday when a front-page report in British newspaper […]
Read moreOpinion by Shaun Summerfield “I’m going to race my quad bike in New Zealand next year,” Shane van Gisbergen as simple and straight forward as ever, as he addressed his Stone Brothers Team during the set up for the weekends racing in Winton. And with that, the immensely talented driver, effectively ended his V8 Supercar […]
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