Motor Sports

Nurturing the next champions
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
For the second year running, a group of dedicated Waikato Offroad Racing Club members have staged an event focusing on the next wave of racers: the youth Kiwitruck category.
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Northern racers take top points
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
A total of 60 cars – one of the strongest fields in the 2023 JG Civil New Zealand Offroad Racing Championship – has dramatically reset the points table after a crash-and-bash day of racing at the T
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Raptor heads for Dakar
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
The Ford Ranger Raptor will take on its arch nemesis the Toyota Hilux in the 2024 and 2025 Dakar Rally, with next year’s event a ‘race and learn’ venture for Ford, which has never contested the big
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Ruiterman rules Nelson
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Nobody’s calling them weed sprayers any more: racers in the UTV classes now make up almost half of the sport of off-road racing, and in the hands of the likes of Carl Ruiterman UTVs can seemingly w
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Templeman dominates fast Woodhill 100
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
An epic battle decided the winner of the 2023 Woodhill 100.
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Suzuki Extreme Challenge
Monday, 12 June 2023
The Suzuki Extreme 4x4 Challenge is certainly one of the most spectacular motorsport events in New Zealand.
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Horan hammers the Aussies
Monday, 22 May 2023
New Zealanders Raana Horan and Mike Connor have raced to their first off-road racing win in Australia, taking out the Wentworth Shire Pooncarie Desert Dash.
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Club 4WD series
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Central Zone Club Truck Challenge 2023 round 3 Wellington By Andrew Gee
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4WD trials series
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
The pairing of Neville Mather and Richard Verner are shaping up as a title prospect after winning the fourth round of the Lucas Oil NZ 4×4 Trials at Te Puke.
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Drama at Dakar
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel have won the car class in the 2023 Dakar Rally, once again winning in a Toyota Hilux.
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NZ4x4 Trials Round One
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
As interim motorsport editor for NZ4WD, Sean Willmot has been more than quietly impressed with recent off-road events, the first of which was round one of the NZ 4x4 Trials held in
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It’s Ruiterman for the win
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Labour Weekend saw the sun set on the Offroad Association of New Zealand (ORANZ) New Zealand off-road Racing Championship for 2022 at Burnside Rd, Makarau just north-west of Auckland.
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Rainforest Challenge profile and pictorial
Monday, 17 October 2022
The Rainforest Challenge started way back in the late 1990s in Malaysia.
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Extreme 4WD action
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Huge crowd, great weather, spectacular action
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Ford tough - downunder
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Tough truck: where were you in ‘92?
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Return of the Offroad Grand Prix
Monday, 18 July 2022
Save this date: 19 November 2022
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The year of the UTV: Woodhill 100 is reborn
Friday, 17 June 2022
Matamata driver Dion Edgecombe has fought through to his first win in New Zealand’s oldest and fastest forest offroad endurance race.
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Biggs takes the final win
Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Lucas series wraps up at Putaruru Defending champion Scott Biggs and Jamie Taylor had no real opportunity to contest the title this year thanks to Covid lockdown. They did however win the final round...
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Championship decided at Whatawhata
Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Thomsen and Caldow surge through to win
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Gimour speeds into 2022
Monday, 14 March 2022
Dunedin offroad racer and rally driver Emma Gilmour has kicked off her Extreme E season on the podium and slapped down her World Rally Championship challenge with an entry for the Rally of New Zeal
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Audi's 4WD heart
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
The compamy created a 4WD trend and continues to innovate
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Counties shakedown for the Big Dog
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Off-road racing’s truck class has been rocked by a truck-quake: immediately prior to the Government plunging New Zealand into ‘red’ on its Covid Traffic Light system, Silverdale civil contractor Jo
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Trials 4WDs beat Covid in the Bay of Plenty
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
First blood to Thomsen and Caldow
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Defender goes to the races - UK-based series for Bowler’s new race version
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
As Land Rover in New Zealand gears up for new model launches and a busy year – and celebrates winning the NZ4WD of the Year for the Defender – the Bowler race operation has unveiled a one-make comp
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Extreme and fearless
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Racers One FMX crash too many put ‘Mad’ Mike on the road to fame; now he’s proudly racing alongside his teenage son.
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