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January 15, 2020
NZ MIDGET GRAND PRIX/QUARTER MIDGETS
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January 15, 2020
Quarter pounder By Pete McNae Dyllan Forsey has his elbows up and his eyes ahead. At 14, the Canterbury quarter midget racer is into his seventh speedway season and is already planning his next career move while his peers are focused on their first pimples. Forsey's precocious speedway history is no surprise. His grandfather, mum,...
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December 29, 2019
SI PRODUCTIONS/DEMOLITION DERBY
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December 29, 2019
WRECK-CREATION By Pete McNae Nelson's a popular place at this time of the year. Holidaymakers come from Christchurch and the Coast, even across the strait, to get a bit of top of the south sunshine and hospitality. Until the visitors come to our speedway -- then you best bring your A game and an attitude....
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December 24, 2019
SI PRODUCTION SALOONS/DEMOLITION DERBY
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December 24, 2019
GREY POWER By Pete McNae   You'd go a long way to find someone who loves production saloons more than Dave Leitch.  The proddies have heard every jibe about being a "hot dog class", the one whose races you skip for a mid-meeting feed, but Nelson retiree Leitch is adamant we are all missing the...
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December 15, 2019
SI MIDGETS/SUPER SALOONS/SUPERSTOCKS
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December 15, 2019
WORLD WIDE WEBB By Pete McNae   Part-time midget car driver, fulltime champion. Jeremy Webb should be the mayor of Nelson. Maybe the MP. He already owns the piece of real estate that is the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway. Cantabrian Webb rarely puts a wheel wrong when he comes north to the...
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December 12, 2019
SOUTH ISLAND MIDGET CHAMPS
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December 12, 2019
FAST FRIENDS   By Pete McNae As we approach Christmas, it is time to think about the spirit of giving. And one speedway driver who understands the blessings of generosity more than most is Canterbury midget competitor Glen Durie. Durie started racing in the very early 1990s and has been a national champion and a...
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December 1, 2019
STOCKCAR TEAMS BRAWL
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December 1, 2019
ROUGH AND TUMBLES By Pete McNae   In a game in which lessons can be expensive -- or painful -- and are often both, the Tasman Thunder stockcar team have proved quick learners. Just two weeks after copping a serve from the Canterbury Crushers at Woodford Glen, the Thunder hosted the Canterbury side on home...
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November 28, 2019
STREET CAR RACE/STOCKCAR TEAMS
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November 28, 2019
HAPPY FAMILIES By Pete McNae   Sarah Kitto is seven minutes older than 28-year-old twin sister Tania. And those 420-ish seconds mean plenty in a family where competition counts and trash talk is the official language. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway will know the Kitto name. ...
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November 13, 2019
PTS SUPERSTOCK STAMPEDE: IAN CLAYWORTH
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November 13, 2019
POINT OF DIFFERENCE By Pete McNae Ian Clayworth has his "eureka" moment while waiting at the hairdressing salon over a decade ago. The Nelson superstock driver was in for his monthly trim and read a magazine article that mentioned a BMW V8 engine that produced 414 horsepower from its four-litre capacity, straight out of the...
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November 10, 2019
PTS SUPERSTOCK STAMPEDE: JACK MIERS
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November 10, 2019
CHEQUER OR WRECK 'ER By Pete McNae It seems a stay in hospital is the only way to slow a Miers. Because, assuming all their limbs are attached, the various members of one of superstock racing's first families will have a phone to their ear, a spreadsheet open, a steering wheel in hand and a...
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November 2, 2019
COCA-COLA FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR
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November 2, 2019
BIG SHOTS By Pete McNae Each year, about this time, a little club-run speedway in Nelson, New Zealand, decides to do its bit for history and commemorate the failed political plans of an English activist, who attempted to use a shipload of gunpowder to blow up the House of Lords back in the very early...
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