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PARTY POOPERS By Pete McNae For about five minutes tonight, Callum Russ was having the best birthday -- ever. The Nelson youth ministock driver, son of former Tigers superstock teams racer Wayne Russ, turned 14 today, the same day as the Donaldson Civil (Wayne's employer) Ministock Mania was the feature promotion at the Milestone...

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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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ROUGH AND TUMBLES By Pete McNae In a game in which lessons can be expensive -- or painful -- and are often both, the Tasman Thunder stockcar team have proved quick learners. Just two weeks after copping a serve from the Canterbury Crushers at Woodford Glen, the Thunder hosted the Canterbury side on home...

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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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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 30, 2019

COCA COLA FIREWORKS NIGHT

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October 30, 2019

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

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October 25, 2019

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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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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June 20, 2019

Annual General Meeting 2019

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June 20, 2019

MOVING FORWARD Written by Pete McNae There was no hiding from the fact that the summer just past was a tough one for the Nelson Speedway Association. The club's 50th anniversary season was largely overshadowed by ongoing issues with its resource consent -- a document originally drafted in 1968 -- and the spinoffs...

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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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