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Yamaha YXZ UTVs like Carl Ruiterman's will run in a new open class in 2026
Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - December
Wednesday, 10 December 2025
A question of class Anything goes – an open UTV class will run next year in New Zealand.
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Defender goes to Dakar
Friday, 28 November 2025
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Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - November
Monday, 10 November 2025
Hall wins offroad racing championship   Nick Hall is the 2025 CT Civil New Zealand offroad racing champion.
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Offroad racing national championship final round attracts record entry
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
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Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - October
Sunday, 12 October 2025
The big show is coming to TECT Park
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Defender Dakar D7X-R
Defender lines up offroading's ultimate challenge
Friday, 03 October 2025
The Defender Rally motorsport team has accelerated preparations for its debut entry to the 2026 Dakar Rally and FIA World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC) after completing a gruelling test of t
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Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - September
Sunday, 14 September 2025
Before we knew it the 2025 Giti Tyres NZ1000 was upon us, and we were flat out across stunning Kurow farmland chasing glory.
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Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - August
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
A big weekend Two days, up to 1000km of racing. An entry list studded with top racers. All based in the tiny town of Kurow and raced on farms just outside the town.
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Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - July
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
It’s all on in the south The longest endurance race in New Zealand offroad racing is happening this month.
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Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - Top result for Kiwi racer at the mighty Finke
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
This thing is a beast. It’s unlike any other race in Australia or New Zealand. Faster than anything this side of the ditch. Dustier too.
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Templeman dominates Woodhill 100
Wednesday, 04 June 2025
Auckland offroad racer Daynom ‘Slim’ Templeman has taken his fourth win of the punishing Woodhill 100, the fastest and toughest enduro in New Zealand offroad racing.
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Tony McCall
Dirt Nation with Bryan Chang and Giti Radials - May
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Classic clash coming at Woodhill 100 Image of Tony McCall at the 2024 Woodhill 100 by Geoff Ridder
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Central Zone Club Truck Challenge
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
The Club Truck Challenge (CTC) kicked off for 2025 in Taihape with the welcome return of a few of our big guns; Dave Hintz,  Brent Ward and Bruce Tustin.
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Rally cars vs offroaders
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Manukau has kicked off the off-road racing season in fine style.
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Southern Trailblazers Rally
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
The sun was shining but the obstacles were deep, deep mud. Southern Trailblazers held its annual 4x4 rally on Southland’s “landslip” in November 2024.
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Championship offroad racing at Tect Park
Monday, 16 September 2024
Driving his single-seater race car, Asher Morgan has taken a clean sweep in the final regional round of the 2024 CT Civil New Zealand Off-road Racing Championship.
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A Kiwi at the mighty Finke 
Monday, 19 August 2024
Bucket List: a list of things a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime.
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Trials: tough work in the dry
Monday, 22 July 2024
After last year’s washout during the Anniversary weekend floods the Central Zone Club Truck Challenge returned to Sue Butcher’s farm for the Wairarapa Club’s round.
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Suzuki Extreme 4X4 Challenge event
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Sam and Caitlyn Thomsen survived an early rollover to win the 2024 Suzuki Extreme 4X4 Challenge, the toughest, most entertaining and largest 4WD event in NZ.
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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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