Kiwis are constantly riding high among world’s motorcycling elite, and have done so for many seasons now, and today we’d like to offer a big salute to our modest heroes and heroines.
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It would be a brave man indeed who would bet against Southland’s Seth Morrow and he again showed at the weekend why he’s considered a bright and rapidly-rising young star on the New Zealand sports scene.
Continue reading →She’s only raced the junior motocross nationals twice now, but Raetihi’s Karaitiana Horne has been a force to be reckoned with on each of those occasions.
Continue reading →Appleby’s Wills Harvey is feeling pretty good about life at the moment, the 15-year-old year 11 pupil at Waimea College having just wrapped up his first major national motocross title.
Continue reading →The sport of motocross is really taking off in New Zealand, in more ways than one, and this was aptly demonstrated at the 2022 edition of the New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships in Taranaki at the weekend.
Continue reading →The racing was close throughout most of the classes at Taranaki’s popular Barrett Road Motorcycle Park facility at the weekend when the region hosted the 2022 New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships.
Continue reading →There is perhaps no better launch-pad for young Kiwi racers hoping to achieve motocross fame and fortune than the New Zealand Junior Motocross Championships and this weekend should be no exception.
Continue reading →Self-belief … it’s a hard thing to develop and nurture, but could be the secret recipe to success on the race track.
Continue reading →The Motocross of Nations is the biggest and brightest motocross event of the year and once again New Zealand will have an important presence at this “Olympic Games of Motocross”.
Continue reading →All roads lead to the Bay of Plenty this coming weekend, where the start gates will drop at the Battle of the Teams motocross fundraiser event.
Continue reading →So many young New Zealand women have excelled at motocross on the international stage over the years and we have in the past week enjoyed giving you a glimpse into the lives of a few of these remarkable individuals.
Continue reading →The success that Pukekohe’s Katherine Prumm achieved on the motocross world stage was no doubt one of the sparks that inspired the imagination in so many Kiwi women and yesterday we plotted her career path to the top of the … Continue reading →
We recently looked back over the Kiwi men who were our motocross trailblazers on the world scene, but now we’re looking over a handful of the women who also flew the silver fern flag high on international podiums.
Continue reading →Today, in our third mini feature about high-achieving Kiwi motocross stars, we examine the impact on international motocross of South Islander Josh Coppins.
Continue reading →Today we follow on from the Shayne King story and touch on New Zealand’s only other winner of a premier men’s motocross championships, Bay of Plenty’s Ben Townley.
Continue reading →It has been 25 years since a New Zealander first reached the summit of the motocross world and now that probably seems like a lifetime ago.
Continue reading →Two teams, each including two former Motocross of Nations team riders, stole the spotlight at the big annual Battle Of The Teams motocross in Taupo on Friday.
Continue reading →Self-belief … it’s a hard thing to develop and nurture, but could be the secret recipe to success on the race track.
Continue reading →You need to slow down so that you can go fast. Sounds crazy, but that’s actually pretty good advice when you think about it.
Continue reading →Self-belief … it’s a hard thing to develop and nurture, but could be the secret recipe to success on the race track.
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