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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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October 30, 2019
COCA COLA FIREWORKS NIGHT
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October 30, 2019
ADAM AND DYLAN: THE BRUISE BROTHERS By Pete McNae Pull down on your belts and adjust your mirrors -- the Hall brothers are back in business. After some time away from the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway, the substantially-sized siblings have new cars but the same old attitude this season -- going fast...
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October 25, 2019
PTS SUPERSTOCK STAMPEDE — THE NELSON GUYS
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October 25, 2019
NELSON'S MAGNIFICENT SEVEN By Pete McNae It's a special photograph. The only known shot of Nelson's current superstock class in captivity.  It's missing Ian Clayworth but includes rent-a-racer Warrick Steer and a stray Glen Eagle, Lloyd Jennings, who came up from Christchurch to help open the season at the Milestone Homes Top of the South...
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October 15, 2019
PTS SUPERSTOCK STAMPEDE
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October 15, 2019
HE WHO DARES, WINS By Pete McNae   Half the guys in New Zealand want to swap places with him while half the women in New Zealand want to marry (or mother) him. Foxton superstock driver Jordan Dare is definitely trending on Twitter right now. Dare, who races out of Palmerston North, has been busy...
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October 12, 2019
OPENING NIGHT 2019-20
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October 12, 2019
SUMMER SPORT -- WITH A SNAG By Pete McNae Ahhh, summer. Speedway, sizzling snags and sunburn. Okay, traditionally the thermometer would be in double figures -- but once the first green light goes on at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway, you know barbies and boardies aren't far away. Tonight's 2019-20 season opener,...
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September 9, 2019
OPENING NIGHT, TRACKMAN TROPHY
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September 9, 2019
ADDITION BY SUBTRACTION By Pete McNae Less is more as far as Nelson stockcar driver Michael Paynter is concerned. You'll see why when he takes his place on the grid this Saturday for the opening night of the 2019-20 Nelson speedway season, the Trackman Trophy meeting at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway....
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