Catherine Wellington

When the Australian GT cars rumble up to the start line for the final time at Highlands Motorsport Park this weekend, two Kiwis will be there together to mix it up in a McLaren.

Ex-pat Kiwi Tim Miles considers Highlands Motorsport Park to be his home track and he would dearly love to clinch the Australian Endurance Championship at the Cromwell circuit this weekend.

After missing a World Rally Championship (WRC) round earlier this month, Hayden Paddon is back on board with Hyundai Motorsport, as the team fields a four-car entry in Wales Rally GB this week.

Highlands Motorsport Park has a happy conundrum - how should it split four star drivers into two McLaren 650S GT3 cars for the Highlands 501?

Years of experience paid off for Clydevale's Paul Dunlop as, despite a weakened engine, he was able to power on to third place in the annual KartSport New Zealand National SuperKart Grand Prix at...

A large yellow school bus driving on to the track in the middle of his FIA Formula 4 USA Championship race at the weekend was ''the weirdest thing'' Cromwell's Brendon Leitch has seen in his entire...

Champagne would have been the tipple of choice for two Dunedin drivers, who celebrated top results in both the South Island Endurance Series' (SIES) opening races on Saturday.

Hyundai Motorsport has dropped New Zealander Hayden Paddon from its WRC team for next month's mixed-surface Rally of Spain in favour of Norwegian driver Andreas Mikkelsen.

Cromwell-based circuit racer Brendon Leitch had one of those motorsport weekends when circumstances outside his control dealt some low blows in the United States.

It was with a huge sense of relief that Dunedin rally driver Emma Gilmour passed through the finish flags of the Coromandel Rally on Saturday.

Otago's two national rally championship drivers face some stiff international competition at today's Rally Coromandel.

Southland race driver Brendon Leitch channelled his experience of racing in the wet at his Invercargill home track, Teretonga Park, into a breakthrough race-winning weekend in the FIA Formula 4 USA...

Boosted by his second place at the World Rally Championship's previous round in Poland, Hayden Paddon is hoping to carry that momentum into this week's Rally Finland.

After a whirlwind trip home to New Zealand, Hayden Paddon is competing in Rally Poland with new co-driver Seb Marshall this weekend.

Keeping cool will be one of the main obstacles facing Kiwi driver Hayden Paddon and the World Rally Championship teams as they take to the scorching Sardinian stages from tomorrow.

Dunedin-based Rhys Gardner credited his young team of mechanics for getting him through ''by far the slipperiest rally ever done'' to finish fifth and elevate him to second in the New Zealand...

Hayden Paddon has a major change inside his Hyundai i20 WRC car for this week's Rally Portugal.

Hayden Paddon's new co-driver will get an early call-up next week for the Rally of Portugal, as his long-time navigator John Kennard has to sit out this event due to injury.

Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon has ''very fond memories'' of the Argentinian round of the World Rally Championship, which runs from Friday to Monday.

The presenter at the recent Falcon Club Nationals' prize-giving in Cromwell, jokingly suggested that Wanaka's Daphne Ledgerwood should just stay seated up the front of the room.