Grand Prix

February 11, 2021

PAYING IT ... FORD By Pete McNae It's the Rednecks to the rescue at the speedway on Saturday after serious shuffling delivered a different programme from the one planned. Crashes and meeting clashes left the Nelson Speedway Association with insufficient entries to run the Dirtworks Nelson South Island Sprintcar Championships, with the decision...

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January 24, 2021

Nelson Speedway: New Zealand Streetstock Grand Prix

HOW TO TRUMP TRUMP By Pete McNae For the past four years, Capitol Hill in Washington DC has been the source of chaos and confusion, misdirection and mayhem. Then, along came the Capelli Hair Salon New Zealand Streetstock Grand Prix and said: "Pfffft, hold my beer ..." Last night's feature at the Milestone Homes...

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January 20, 2021

Nelson Speedway: New Zealand Streetstock Grand Prix

ROUGH AND READY By Pete McNae Ryan Musgrove has his speedway priorities sorted. A pretty race car is a nice thing to have but he is all about extracting maximum bang from his bucks. The 11-year veteran of the streetstock class at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway says streeties only...

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January 18, 2017

NZ SPRINTCAR GRAND PRIX

BROKEN, BUT UNBROKEN THERE’S NO REST FOR SPRINTCAR TEAMS Written by: Pete McNae Sprintcars can be a little like their drivers; highly strung, volatile and prone to breakdown. With the Nelson Speedway Association’s New Zealand Grand Prix sprintcar meeting pencilled in for this weekend, there was always a possibility that three nights of fierce racing at…

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