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13B Evo VIII drag car smashes PB
View fullsize When we last caught up with Nick Reiri, he’d just run the fastest pass of the event at the 2019 4&Rotary

Bhamji aims for eights
Import drag racing stalwart Azhar Bhamji has taken aim at running mid eights with his street legal Mazda R100 and has commissioned a

D-Day approaches: EV Build Breakdown with Hayden Paddon
View fullsize The months are sure whizzing by as our May / June deadline looms closer. With each passing day, progress on the

MSNZ launches Digital Motorsport Championship
View fullsize One of our national motorsport governing bodies, MotorSport New Zealand, has announced that it will join the world of e-sports with

Daily driven: David Eel Ho Lee’s 2019 Honda Civic Type R (FK8)
View fullsize Name: David Eelho Lee // Age: 29 Location: Auckland // Occupation: Insurance broker NZ Performance Car: Hi, David. Tell us how you got into

Acura drops addictive game
View fullsize If you don’t have a copious amount of time to blow, you should probably skip reading this altogether. However, if you’re

Chasing The Smoke: driver updates from the 2020 Valvoline D1NZ National Drifting Championship (March)
Regular updates from the 2020 Valvoline D1NZ National Drifting Championship View fullsize Round four: 27–28 March Hampton Downs, Te Kauwhata Round five: 8–9

Evans claims Mexico City ePrix
View fullsize Kiwi Formula E championship contender, Mitch Evans, has won the Mexico City ePrix after a dominant display that saw him take

Kris Robb aims for sixes in new full-chassis
View fullsize For years Kris Robb campaigned his back-halved RX-7, which was originally built back in the early 2000s. Now he has retired

Targa Drops MSNZ for AASA
View fullsize Last year we covered the new motorsports sanctioning body, Australian AutoSport Alliance (AASA), launched locally by LeMons organizer Jacob Simonsen. The

Carl Thompson tears up Hoonigan burnyard
From an impeccable KE70 featured way back when to his infamous turbo quad-rotor Toyota Aristo, and, as of late, hulking V8-powered S15 drift

Can’t stop, won’t stop: EV Build Breakdown with Hayden Paddon
View fullsize Despite the summer holiday season, things have been ramping up at Paddon Rallysport Group (PRG) as our May deadline for the

Chasing the smoke: driver updates from the 2020 Valvoline D1NZ National Drifting Championship (Feb)
Regular updates from the 2020 Valvoline D1NZ National Drifting Championship View fullsize The 2019–’20 season of the D1NZ National Drifting Championship has seen

Clear Eyes: Rain-X Headlight Restoration Kit
View fullsize Mention the name Rain-X and you’ll instantly think water repellent, but the company actually offers a wide range of car care

Safety first: Simpson Racing Products founder, Bill Simpson, dead at 79
View fullsize While his on-track career saw him make 52 starts in IndyCar between 1968 and 1977, and a start at the Indianapolis