Ross MacKay is an award-winning journalist, author and publicist with first-hand experience of motorsport from a lifetime competing on two and four wheels. He currently combines contract media work with weekend Mountain Bike missions and trips to grassroots drift days.

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Large number of karters set to compete at major meetings on both Islands this weekend

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With major race meetings on in Blenheim and Nelson in the South Island and also at Palmerston North in the…

‘For he’s a jolly good fellow (and/or fellow-esse)….and so say all of us!’

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Look, I don’t mind admitting, a whole truck (and trailer-load) of ambivalence when it comes to MotorSport NZ’s annual awards…

‘BIGWAD’ and the changing face of the Targa scene here

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There’s a youngish (I’d put him at late 20s/early 30s) kind of bloke on Auckland’s North Shore who ‘commutes’ to…

Gill & Summerfield go on to claim dominant Targa Rotorua win

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After leading the event for most of the  first day of competition on Saturday, Auckland tarmac rally specialist Jason Gill…

Gill & Summerfield get chance to shine on first day of Targa Rotorua event

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Targa tarmac rally specialist Jason Gill and new co-driver Nicole Summerfield (VW Polo R) got their chance to shine on…

Rotorua return this weekend for first Targa Rally event of 2021

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Having developed several ‘destination-based’ events to run in the first half of the year ‘Targa man’ Peter Martin was really…

Grant proves he still has wins in him at Te Puke ProKart Series round

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Auckland karter Ryan Grant (main picture) has been racing and winning in New Zealand’s premier 125cc/6-speed KZ2 class for 14years….

Pace, Grace + Space. How a Hastings GP built a MK11 Jaguar that ticked ALL the boxes!

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Yes, well I don’t know about any of you, but I have always had a ‘soft-spot-of-sorts’ for Jaguar’s classic ‘60s…

Tight confines of Te Puke track will test skill & patience of ProKarters this weekend

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The tight confines of its Fagan’s Valley site high in the bush-clad hills behind Te Puke will test the skill…

Our ‘market of scarcity’ and what it means if you’re into old cars and/motorcycles.

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For a ‘wee Island nation tucked way down near the bottom of the world’ we’ve certainly been able to import…