Epitomising the humble New Zealand athlete, Women's Motocross World Championship (WMWC) leader Courtney Duncan is not letting her new-found fame go to her head before the third round this weekend.
The surname Veitch is synonymous with motorcycles in Dunedin, so it is no wonder the youngest male member, Grason (13), is a motocross star in the making.
Last year Hayden Paddon received a huge WRC confidence boost after winning the Otago Rally in a 2WD Escort - so what will winning it by a record-breaking margin in 2016 do for his driving?
Hayden Paddon really outdid himself when he won the two-day Drivesouth Rally of Otago by a whopping 9min 22sec yesterday, in his Hyundai i20.
First world problem - what does the man who has everything buy for an anniversary?In Highlands Motorsport Park owner Tony Quinn's case, he settled on a $4.2million Aston Martin Vulcan to commemorate the three years since the Cromwell race track first opened its gates.
The 2015 national rally champion Ben Hunt has some brand new wheels that he will dial up into competition mode for the first time tomorrow.
They regularly challenge the 4WDs for sheer speed, so this weekend's Otago Rally provides a welcome 2WD battleground for quick Kiwis Derek Ayson and Marcus van Klink.
Otago crowds will get the first glimpse of Hayden Paddon in his new specifically designed rally car.
For many mountain bikers, accessing tracks for training means chucking the bike on a car and travelling to a suitable spot, but Hawea Flat's Paul Wright literally rides off his back doorstep, down a series of steps, through a gate and straight on to the 4.5km track winding its way around his family's hillside property.
Queenstown's Scott Columb started his New Zealand Motocross Championships campaign with a solid fourth place in the opening round at Pleasant Point on Sunday.
Among the seven Otago riders entered for the four-round 2016 New Zealand Motocross Championships, beginning on Sunday at Pleasant Point, Scott Columb is the most seasoned campaigner.
Dean Perkins and his V8 Falcon XD go way back.
In a sport where chequebooks can dictate the winners and the losers, the Pre 65 Racing series strikes a happy medium, with many aspects of the cars' componentry controlled.
Courtney Duncan has begun her 2016 motocross campaign with her familiar flair, finishing runner-up in the MX2 class at the annual King of the Mountain (KoM) event in Taranaki.
Wanaka is blessed with some seriously stunning and steep terrain, so it is little wonder the two-day sufferfest Defiance is back for a second instalment this weekend.
There will be no easing into his biggest season of international competition yet for New Zealand rally star Hayden Paddon as he prepares to contest the notoriously tricky Rally Monte Carlo this week.
Defending Coast to Coast champion Jess Simson has announced her retirement.
Queenstown's Scott Columb is back racing - on a different bike brand - and plans to build his race fitness up tonight at the New Zealand Supercross Championships in Winton.
Finnish World Rally Championship (WRC) star Mikko Hirvonen will contest next year's Stadium Cars International Classic Rally of Otago, in what is a huge coup for the Dunedin event, announced worldwide today.
For the winner, it was the one of his best races, and for the third-placed driver it was one of the most difficult, according to two of the three podium drivers, who hammered their GT cars to the limit in the Highlands 101 yesterday.
