WRX Premium: the fancy everyday rally car
15 October 2015
View fullsize It’s always an exciting time in the NZ Performance Car office when we get given the keys to a late-model performance car.
View fullsize It’s always an exciting time in the NZ Performance Car office when we get given the keys to a late-model performance car.
View fullsize Yay, spring, and with it comes round one of the South Island’s very own grass-roots drift event, the Japanese Race Supplies Drift
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“Is that it? I expected … more.” When I first informed my mum that I would be racing at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park near the
View fullsize With racing heritage from the famous British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) and Japanese Touring Car Championship (JTCC) series of the ’90s, and
The discipline of time attack racing, might only require a single lap of perfection to claim glory, but it requires months, sometimes years, of hard
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