It’s the homecoming of a Kiwi hero that is sure to excite the motorbike community when the Mike Pero MotoFest repeats its spectacular celebration of motorcycling at Hampton Downs in March.
Wellington’s Rogan Chandler will head into the 2019 New Zealand Superbike Championships in a confident mood as his build-up for that series continues to gather momentum.
The fledgling GIXXER Cup competition is gathering pace and increasing momentum, with several claims now that it is already achieving more than it did during its inaugural season last year.
Bay of Plenty man Cohen Chase has his rivals green with envy as he ran off with the SX1 title win at his first attempt.
No-one said it was going to be easy to defend his Suzuki Series title in the premier Formula One category, but Taupo’s Scotty Moir is proving he’s up for the fight.
The New Zealand Supercross Championships wrapped up in the deep south on Saturday with new champions crowned in every class.
It seems Bay of Plenty man Damon Rees is simply unstoppable so far this summer, unbeatable in the Manawatu at the weekend.
The second of three rounds in this year’s Suzuki Series at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon, in Feilding, on Sunday picked up when it had left off at round one in Taupo a week earlier, again bursting with edge-of-the-seat racing.
The big annual Honda New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville is the premier event on the Kiwi dirt bike calendar and the 58th edition is just around the corner.
The popular annual Suzuki Series kicked off near Taupo on Sunday with all the usual fizz, fanfare and frenetic race action and, despite the star power of the international entries, it was the Kiwi locals who emerged as the early front-runners.
There’s no denying the supercross talent of New Zealand riders such as Ben Townley, Josiah Natzke, Carlin Hedley and Korban Paget.
The fledgling GIXXER Cup class of motorcycle road-racing picked up at the weekend where it left off in its inaugural season last year, heralding the start of the 2018-19 season with hot race action on the track an unbridled camaraderie off it.
It’s never easy racing dirt bikes at speed across unknown terrain, but Auckland’s Callan May was in the enviable position of being able to take it easy in the King Country on Saturday.
Bay of Plenty’s Brad Groombridge and his Kea Trailers Race Team-mate Seton Head both love the power of their Suzuki dirt bikes, but they each discovered there was a whole new level of bravery required when they made their road-racing debuts at the weekend.
Auckland’s Tom Buxton made it look far easier than it should have been as he dominated the third and final round of the popular New Zealand Grand National Cross-country Championships in the King Country at the weekend.
With three wins from four starts, it’s probably fair to say that Bay of Plenty rider Damon Rees was the most dominant individual racing at Taupo’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park on Sunday.
It may have been his first competitive outing on a 1000cc superbike, but Wainuiomata’s Shane Richardson showed at the weekend that he was more than ready for a little extra horsepower.
After a fruitful end-of-season test in Jerez, reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez has undergone surgery at the Hospital Universitari Dexeus, in Barcelona, Spain.
The big annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville will again enjoy elevated status in 2019.
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