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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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SUPERSTOCKS AND SO MUCH MORE By Pete McNae It’s been more than two months since the high-winding V8s have chucked clay at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway but the superstocks are back on a chokka programme for Nelson’s multi-headed race meeting on Saturday, March 23. With the season rapidly nearing an…

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March 6, 2019

SOUTH ISLAND SIDECARS

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March 6, 2019

GREY POWER Written by Pete McNae Sam Satherley has had four heart attacks – a warning one and three others that might have tipped over a lesser man. He's got enough steel in his left leg to be a body double for the Terminator. And he's not far off turning 70, a pretty...

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CATCH HIM IF YOU CAN OPEN WHEEL DEAL Written by Pete McNae It's beginning to look like there is daylight between Jeremy Webb and every other three-quarter midget racer in New Zealand His runaway win in the Waimea Vehicle Testing Station New Zealand TQ Midget Grand Prix last night completed his triple crown (NZs,...

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