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February 12, 2020
RACING FOR THE KIDS
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February 12, 2020
FRINGE BENEFITS By Pete McNae Behold the power of the mullet. For those bold enough, it's not just a haircut, it's a lifestyle. And Nelson ministock driver Blake Hearne reckons his hairy waterfall is worth an extra 10 horsepower on the race track. Locally, their leader is Connor Blackbourn, who has the main mane in...
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February 2, 2020
MAG AND TURBO SUPER CUP
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February 2, 2020
PADDY POWER   By Pete McNae Here's a concept for Disney's next stage spectacular -- super saloons on ice. When it hasn't rained in Nelson basically since the last decade and there are 16 super saloons on the Moutere clay track at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway, it's going to be dusty....
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January 29, 2020
SUPER CUP SUPER SALOONS
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January 29, 2020
SUPER MAN By Pete McNae It's taken Trevor Elliott a couple of decades to become an overnight sensation. The Canterbury-based super saloon driver and the current points leader in the Mag and Turbo Super Cup started racing back in the mid 1980s, yet this is his first media interview. He's often the sneaky quick driver...
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January 19, 2020
NEW ZEALAND MIDGET GRAND PRIX
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January 19, 2020
SLIDE RULES   By Pete McNae Whoever decided to place a high horsepower engine in a lightweight speedway chassis, then leave the wing at home, we salute you. While the midgets might lack the deliberate contact of the stockcars or the untamed horsepower from the sprint cars, there is a reason the class has been...
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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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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 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 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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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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April 17, 2019
EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA
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April 17, 2019
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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