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November 14, 2020
Nelson Speedway: Super Saloon Cando Cup and 30-Lap Streetcar Race
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November 14, 2020
CUP AND SORCERY   By Pete McNae   A super saloon wizard and a  professional magician had a few tricks up their sleeve for their opposition at Nelson's Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway tonight. The meeting was one rescheduled from last Saturday when a week of rain turned the infield into a mire...
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November 4, 2020
Nelson Speedway: Cando Cup for super saloons
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November 4, 2020
SPEEDWAY'S MAN OF LETTERS By Pete McNae Campbell McManaway started with an “I”, switched to a “C”, transitioned to a “T” and has ended with an “N”. That looks like an erratic alphabet but it actually just tracks the 57-year-old fishing company owner's speedway path since he started racing in the late 1990s. A stereotypical...
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October 25, 2020
Nelson Speedway: Fireworks Spectacular
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October 25, 2020
SPEEDWAY WINS BY A LANDSLIDE   By Pete McNae   Go hard and go early seems to be the way to ensure a satisfactory result these days. It worked, by a landslide, last Saturday and it worked again last night with the Nelson Speedway Association cranking through an opening meeting that was still one of...
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October 21, 2020
Nelson Speedway: Fireworks and Trophy Night
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October 21, 2020
RIGHT FIRST TIME By Pete McNae You know when you want something, want it r-e-a-l-l-y badly, but you hold off, hold back until you can do it properly and not be disappointed? No, me either, but Josh Nell does. The 20-year-old apprentice diesel mechanic with Donaldson Civil loved the sound and spectacle of the superstock...
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October 7, 2020
Nelson Speedway: Level 1, let’s go racing!
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October 7, 2020
FRESH AIR AND RACE FUEL By Pete McNae   We have heard it over and over in the past six months, these are unprecedented times. And, while the South Island has been largely insulated from the direct impacts of the Covid-19 coronavirus since the early weeks of infection spreading, speedway was not immune. The last...
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August 31, 2020
Nelson Speedway: New event on the calendar
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August 31, 2020
BRING ME SUNSHINE   With the 2020-21 speedway season fast approaching, the Nelson Speedway Association is still coming up with new ways and means to add value to their season calendar. And, with the first scheduled practice now less than a fortnight away, the club is excited to announce the inaugural Sunshine Classic. Set down...
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March 14, 2020
HALF PRICE NIGHT
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March 14, 2020
A PERFECT 10 (BUCKS) By Pete McNae   On his night, when car and driver are in harmony, no one dominates the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway oval like Ian Burson. I'll put up 10 bucks if you can change my mind. That $10 was all it cost for adult entry for tonight's...
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March 11, 2020
KING OF THE CLAY
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March 11, 2020
TRICKS AND TREATS By Pete McNae Former Nelson streetstock champion and duke of the dunger derby Andy (Andre Vegas) Guthrie is one heck of a talented magician. From his beginnings as a kids' party conjurer to his current status as a highly sought after professional performer, Vegas has honed and expanded his craft. Yet it's...
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February 26, 2020
SI SUPERSTOCKS
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February 26, 2020
CALL ME LOYAL By Pete McNae   Eat, race, repair, repeat. That's pretty much how half the year goes in the AHill household -- the home of Nelson superstock driver Alex Hill and his wife and TQ midget and sprintcar competitor Alicia Hill. The couple met at Nelson's Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway,...
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February 15, 2020
MINISTOCK MANIA/RACING FOR THE KIDS
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February 15, 2020
PARTY POOPERS By Pete McNae   For about five minutes tonight, Callum Russ was having the best birthday -- ever. The Nelson youth ministock driver, son of former Tigers superstock teams racer Wayne Russ, turned 14 today, the same day as the Donaldson Civil (Wayne's employer) Ministock Mania was the feature promotion at the Milestone...
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