The opening day of competition at round one of the 2023 FIM EnduroGP World Championships saw Brad Freeman back to his winning ways, claiming EnduroGP class victory at the Grand Prix of Italy.
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Former Parnassus man Graeme Allan is a little hot under the collar, the multi-time former New Zealand motocross champion having been robbed of his prized title-winning bikes.
Continue reading →Italy’s Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia powered to another superb win at Portimao, the opening round of the 2023 MotoGP season in Portugal and will be hoping to do the same at round two in Argentina this weekend.
Continue reading →Could young Auckland motorcycle road-racer Haydn Fordyce be New Zealand’s next Graeme Crosby, Hugh Anderson, Ginger Molloy, Robert Holden, Shaun Harris, Aaron Slight, Simon Crafar or Andrew Stroud, a rider to truly shake up the bike scene internationally?
Continue reading →It is the 17th season of the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and 17 different flags adorn the front wheel fairings of the KTM RC 250R’s as a slew of teenagers, including a Kiwi, chase their dreams in the opening … Continue reading →
Good things come to those who are prepared to wait, or so the saying goes, and Whakatane’s Mitch Rees and Upper Hutt’s Rogan Chandler would probably be the first to agree.
Continue reading →The latest project to promote, support and encourage youngsters into motorcycle road-racing has a big thumbs-up from the sport’s governing body here, Motorcycling New Zealand.
Continue reading →It started in early December and wrapped up with the sixth and final round at Taupo last weekend and, at every twist and turn, the 2022-23 New Zealand Superbike Championships delivered.
Continue reading →Phew, what a season of road-racing we have just experienced in New Zealand this summer – highs and lows, celebrations and commiserations, sweet champagne and bitter coffee.
Continue reading →It’s always a real family affair on the New Zealand motorcycle racing scene, with husbands and wives racing together, fathers and sons swapping positions, brothers and sisters sharing the tarmac and even parents competing alongside their offspring.
Continue reading →A family that plays together stays together … just ask Bay of Plenty father and son bike racers Tony and Mitch Rees, team-mates in the Motul Honda Racing Team.
Continue reading →This season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships came to a thrilling conclusion at the Taupo International Motorsport Park and Events Centre at the weekend with some riders saving their best for last.
Continue reading →Motocross is unquestionably a colourful and extreme and dangerous sport, a big part of its appeal and why it attracts so much attention.
Continue reading →It’s a long way from New Zealand to Spain, but that’s the next journey that awaits Invercargill’s Cormac Buchanan in the coming days.
Continue reading →Taupo will be motorcycling’s centre of excellence this coming weekend as the nation’s elite road-racers converge on the Taupo International Motorsport Park and Events Centre for the final showdown in this season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships.
Continue reading →The Star Insure MotoFest at Hampton Downs at the weekend delivered thrills, spills and title-winning performances of a calibre that could only be described as world-class.
Continue reading →That’s a wrap … Bay of Plenty’s Mitch Rees has won the New Zealand Superbikes Championships with a round to spare.
Continue reading →Two national titles were wrapped up at the fifth round of six in this season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships at Hampton Downs, near Meremere, at the weekend.
Continue reading →A MotoGP season starts long before the first race or even the first test; riders train, engineers fine-tune bikes and everything must be ready for a team’s launch.
Continue reading →Imagine there are only two laps to go, the chasing pack is hot on your tail as you’re heading onto the fast back straight and the chequered flag is not so far away … that’s the position the riders may … Continue reading →