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2019/20 Season Event Naming Rights Lottery It’s back and its better than ever with hundreds of prizes up for grabs. Top prize is the naming rights for the New Zealand Midget Grand Prix while the naming rights for the South Island titles for Superstocks and Midgets are also on offer. Other winners could find themselves…

July 23, 2019

Member Benefit Quiz Night

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July 23, 2019

Nelson Speedway Association Presents: MEMBERS QUIZ NIGHT 17th August 2019 Teams of 10 – $10.00 per person Nelson Speedway Clubrooms – Lansdowne Road Doors Open at 6.30, Quiz starts at 7.30pm Come early to find your table and check out all the auctions AUCTIONS, RAFFLES, GAMES, PRIZES BAR OPEN, SUPER PROVIDED To book phone or…

FULL THROTTLE By Pete McNae Here's a lesson in how to turn a possible negative into a huge positive. Just a little over five months out from race night and the field for the Nelson Speedway Association's Superstock Stampede is already fully subscribed. The meeting, set down for November 16 at the Milestone Homes Top...

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June 20, 2019

Annual General Meeting 2019

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June 20, 2019

MOVING FORWARD Written by Pete McNae There was no hiding from the fact that the summer just past was a tough one for the Nelson Speedway Association. The club's 50th anniversary season was largely overshadowed by ongoing issues with its resource consent -- a document originally drafted in 1968 -- and the spinoffs...

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MANY HAPPY RETURNS Written by Pete McNae Imagine you threw a 50th birthday party and no one showed up. Thankfully, that wasn't the case at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway this evening as the Nelson club closed its anniversary season with fields boosted by visiting competitors. Some were regulars – TQ racers...

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HUNTING SEASON Written by Pete McNae Ben Smith is a lot like his All Blacks namesake – a little under the radar until you relax, then he can ruin your evening in a hurry. The Nelson stockcar driver made a surprise return to Nelson's Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway for the second...

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April 7, 2019

SPRINTCARS WAR OF THE WINGS

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April 7, 2019

WILD HORSES Written by Pete McNae It's game on. With one round left to run in the Hydraulink War of the Wings Sprintcar Series, what could have been a one-horse race is now a definite dash to the finish between two drivers harnessing more than 800 horses each Last night's penultimate round, presented by...

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TRUE NORTH Written by Pete McNae Blenheim's Paddy North is a bloody good saloon car driver, three times 2NZ, in fact. He's also had a bunch of podium finishes in NZ Grand Prix and South Island championship meetings in both saloons and super saloons and has taken on the Australians over there in a New...

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March 24, 2019

SOUTH ISLAND SIDECARS

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March 24, 2019

RIVALS GREEN WITH ENVY Written by Pete McNae Life is full of surprises. Who knew that you don't eat Christmas mince pies with chips and sauce? That buffalo wings don't come from buffaloes nor is a urinal cake edible (unless you're desperate). And who knew that Adie Drake and swinger Kieran Satherley had...

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March 21, 2019

DERBY NIGHT AND MUCH MORE

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March 21, 2019

EVER-DECREASING CIRCLES Written by Pete McNae That green 18 has been around the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway for so long, it is almost part of the furniture. But it's fast drawing to a close for former national superstock champion Shane Harwood as a second extended break from speedway looms less than a...

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