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March 31, 2021

Nelson Speedway: NZ Sidecar Grand Prix and Super Saloons

HOT AND CROSS By Pete McNae Pull up a (side)chair while we look into what has happened to one of the major promotions for the 2020-21 season at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway, the Thelin Construction New Zealand Sidecar Grand Prix. The event is going ahead this Saturday from 5pm but the...

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February 13, 2021

Nelson Speedway: Nelson Knights teams race and club night

PUNCHING ABOVE YOUR WEIGHT By Pete McNae Under-promise and over-deliver. It's just good business sense. When the Nelson Speedway Association was faced with a likely field of 10 for the South Island sprintcar championship and the stockcars and sidecars couldn't scrape up numbers to take their place in the programme tonight, there was talk...

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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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November 28, 2020

Nelson Speedway: Sprintcar War of the Wings (Nelson round)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CLETUS By Pete McNae Sam O'Callaghan will be feeling pretty happy about his job security tonight. The Central Otago-based sprintcar driver has been Nelson car owner Kevin (Cletus) Freeman's helmsman of choice in the past couple of seasons, the young man never afraid to take a risk to earn a reward...

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November 25, 2020

Nelson Speedway: Sprintcar War of the Wings

WEST ISLAND REFUGEE By Pete McNae Brett Sullivan is still wrapping his head around the fact that his home track is about 10 minutes from his front door. In recent seasons, Sullivan has faced an eight-hour tow -- minimum -- to flick clay in his sprintcar. His past half-dozen years have been spent...

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November 4, 2020

Nelson Speedway: Cando Cup for super saloons

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

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 10, 2020

Opening Night – Trackman Trophies

The much anticipated opening night here at the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway is finally here!! After a lengthy break due to the Covid – 19 virus its great to be back doing what we are good at and that’s entertaining our fans with fast action packed racing. All classes are contesting the…

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November 2, 2019

COCA-COLA FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR

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 25, 2019

PTS SUPERSTOCK STAMPEDE — THE NELSON GUYS

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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