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The fastest NASCAR in the world is heading to New Zealand where it will star in the third annual Speedshow.

New Zealand is to have a new Motorsport complex comprising three sealed circuits, pit buildings, industrial units, Business Park, Lifestyle blocks, convention centre, restaurant and trackside apartments to service the needs of modern-day Motorsport. Construction started 23/2/07 and the track is scheduled to opon in June this year.

The A1GP World Cup of Motorsport resumes after the Christmas and New Year break when round four of the fourth season roars into life again at Taupo Motor Sport Park in New Zealand this weekend

Australians Scott Pye and Nathan Antunes and Hamilton racer Michael Burdett have set up a classic trans-Tasman tussle in the opening round of the Toyota Racing Series this weekend at Ruapuna.
The Australian pair dominated free practice and qualifying in an Australian clean-sweep on Friday and Saturday but in race one, it was Michael Burdett who [...]

Motorsport is about to get a new home in south Auckland. The Manukau City Council said today it had won a special motorsport zone for Colin Dale Park near Auckland airport.

V8 Supercar series leader Garth Tander turned a dismal start into a dramatic conclusion yesterday when he grabbed the quickest practice time for this weekend’s Sandown Midas 400 round.
Tander got off to a bad start in his Holden in the opening session when he clashed with the Falcon of Michael Patrizi and was forced to [...]

Days after Scott Dixon’s grand Indy500 triumph, the latest Kiwi go-kart prodigy was making the big move to follow in his superstar tracks.
Thirteen-year-old Nick Cassidy, from Whenuapai, secured the licence this week enabling him to compete in the four-race Formula First winter series at Manfeild.
The Cassidy story is of a youngster who, after being initially [...]

Young New Zealand racing driver Earl Bamber has reunited with the Meritus team for a tilt at the Formula V6 Asia championship which begins this weekend in Malaysia.
Bamber, 17, drove the Malaysian-based team to victory in the 2006 Formula BMW Asia championship in his rookie year.
The Wanganui teen says this year’s V6 championship is crucial [...]

Disgruntled bar and restaurant owners, who spent thousands preparing for the V8s, have accused the Hamilton City Council of “over-hyping” the event.
About 50 members of the hospitality industry fired questions at Mayor Bob Simcock, chief executive Michael Redman and communications and marketing general manager Philip Burton during a V8 debrief yesterday.
Bar and restaurant owners said [...]

New Zealand V8 racecar driver Dale Lambert has been banned for two years after returning a positive drugs test for cannabis.
The Auckland driver tested positive at the Manfeild round of the national series in February.
The New Zealand Herald newspaper today reported that Drug Free Sport New Zealand officials arrived at the circuit for the first [...]

Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander made it two from two with victory in race two of this weekend’s Hamilton 400 in New Zealand.
Tander led from start to finish apart from a brief period during the compulsory pit stops. Steven Richards took second place after gaining a place during the pit stops and closed in [...]

Bamber makes no mistake to win at Hamilton 400
Wanganui driver Earl Bamber made the most of pole position to win the first Toyota Racing Series at the Hamilton 400 Saturday.
He got a clean start on the damp track and defended a mid-race challenge from Australian Nathan Antunes to lead all the way to the chequered [...]

V8 Supercars championship leader Jamie Whincup’s Hamilton 400 meeting may be over, after a massive crash during today’s first qualifying session.
The session was stopped after Triple Eight Racing Vodafone Falcon was clipped by Jack Daniels driver Todd Kelly’s Commodore.
A touch on the rear corner of the car when Kelly came off the ripple strip after [...]

After a dominant performance during Friday’s qualifying sessions at the Hamilton 400, New Zealand V8 champion John McIntyre went on to win the first rain-shortened race.
Having set a qualifying time more than eight-tenths of a second faster than Angus Fogg, his closest rival - the biggest qualifying margin all season - McIntyre led from start [...]

Jim Beam Racing’s Will Davison has won the dubious honour of being the first victim of Hamilton’s concrete walls after an incident out of turn seven saw him break a steering arm and slam into the barrier.
The #18 Jim Beam Falcon clipped turn seven, the result a broken steering arm and a long night for [...]