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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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December 12, 2020

Nelson Speedway: PTS Superstock Stampede

THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM By Pete McNae Guess we can call this daylight Robb-ery. The Nelson Speedway Association's third attempt at running the first PTS Logistics Superstock Stampede was such a slickly run meeting that patrons were filing towards the exit gates, doing the speedway dust shuffle, before it was even fully dark....

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December 10, 2020

Nelson Speedway: PTS Superstock Stampede

THE POWER OF ONE By Pete McNae Allow me to introduce you to the Blenheim superstock class. Chris Baxter. That's it, just the one, lone driver proud to run the Eastern States E on the flanks of his race car. While it makes class meetings fairly straightforward, it does mean Baxter is having to...

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December 8, 2020

Nelson Speedway: PTS Superstock Stampede

NEAREST THING TO NELSON By Pete McNae When the visiting drivers roll into town this weekend for the Nelson Speedway Association's third attempt at staging the PTS Logistics Superstock Stampede, there is one who warrants home crowd support more than most. Hawke's Bay's Adam Groome has a special fondness for the Milestone Homes...

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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 21, 2020

Nelson Speedway: Fireworks and Trophy Night

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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November 13, 2019

PTS SUPERSTOCK STAMPEDE: IAN CLAYWORTH

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

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 30, 2019

COCA COLA FIREWORKS NIGHT

ADAM AND DYLAN: THE BRUISE BROTHERS By Pete McNae Pull down on your belts and adjust your mirrors -- the Hall brothers are back in business. After some time away from the Milestone Homes Top of the South Speedway, the substantially-sized siblings have new cars but the same old attitude this season -- going fast...

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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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