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Take 80 drivers with an appetite for destruction, season with clay and concrete, fuel with caffeine and stand the hell clear. Qualifying night for the Zumo New Zealand streetstock championship was all it was promised to be, fast and totally loose. Tonight, at Nelson’s Tahuna Beach Holiday Park Speedway, 26 of the best (and 28…

Not so much a geriatric as a geri-hat-trick. When 59-year-old quadruple heart bypass survivor John Warwood and passenger Laurie McMahon (56) won the Anchor Construction South Island sidecar championship on Saturday, it was Warwood’s third title at an age and stage when some of his peers are eyeing their pensioner bus pass. The years have…

Winning speedway championships must be like riding a bike . . . once you know how, you never forget. Former international midget team competitor Nevil Basalaj made a rare appearance at Tahuna Beach Holiday Park Speedway – the midget class has only run twice at Nelson’s first 10 meetings and Basalaj missed that one –…