The 2017 Leadfoot Festival will host the cream of New Zealand’s impressive crop of drivers, with household names from a range of motorsport disciplines entered in the February 4 and 5 Coromandel Peninsula event. The national entry list is cause for some patriotic pride for Kiwi fans attending the Hahei-based Leadfoot Festival, as it features […]
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A world class field is headed to Hampton Downs and Highlands Motorsport Park for the first of two weekends of GT racing in New Zealand. The Hampton Downs 101 (October 29-30) is the third and penultimate round of the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship (AEC) and marks the first time the Australian GT Championship has visited […]
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Kiwi motorsport great Greg Murphy is temporarily stepping out of retirement to race next month’s Hampton Downs 101. Murphy, a four-time Bathurst winner, will team up alongside track owner Tony Quinn, co-driving an Aston Martin Vantage V12 GT3 at the first event at the remodelled track over October 28-30. The 44-year-old Murphy retired from competitive […]
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Former V8 Supercar driver Greg Murphy and experienced rally champion Josh Marston have teamed up to announce a Holden backed two AP4 (NZ spec) car rally program that will contest the 2017 New Zealand Rally Championship. Two Holden Barinas’ will be prepared over the rest of the year in time to start in the new […]
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An unfortunate lapse in concentration spelt the end to what was a standout DriveSouth Rally of Otago for Greg Murphy and Mark Leonard in the Stadium Finance Vauxhall Chevette. Running as high as 36th overall, Murphy and co-driver Mark Leonard had been enjoying a relatively trouble free two-day rally until five stages from the end. […]
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New Zealand racing great Greg Murphy will get to enjoy his first taste of the Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally later this month. The former V8 Supercar ace and four-time Bathurst winner will take on promotional duties in the six-day October 26 to 31 event behind the wheel of an HSV GEN-F GTS. As […]
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Having to pull out of the 2015 Blakely Pacific Ltd Spring Rally after just the first stage has not dampened Greg Murphy’s newly acquired enthusiasm for rallying. The Kiwi motorsport legend along with co-driver Mark Leonard limped out of the first stage in their historic rally car and withdrew from the final round of the […]
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Greg Murphy just can’t get enough rallying and now heads to Geraldine in South Canterbury for the 2015 Blakely Pacific Ltd Spring Rally on Saturday 26 September. This will be Murphy’s third run in a gravel rally, an experience that the Kiwi motor racing legend has relished and taken to like a penguin to icy […]
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Kiwi motor racing legend Greg Murphy was literally flying at the 2015 Royce Watson Memorial Hanmer Rally on Saturday, held in the surrounding Hanmer forests in North Canterbury. Starting 25th in just his second foray in a gravel event, Murphy progressively got faster and faster through the day and finished an impressive 15th overall. “We […]
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Kiwi motor racing legend Greg Murphy will get behind the wheel of a classic rally car for the second time this winter as he tackles the 2015 Water View Cars Royce Watson Memorial Hanmer Rally in north Canterbury on Saturday. Earlier in May the former V8 Supercar driver made his gravel rally debut in the […]
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