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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Experience gives Kinsman early ProKart Series Advantage

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Years of experience gave Auckland karter Mat Kinsman (main picture) a winning edge in the premier KZ2 class at the…

Colin, George, and 92 years between drinks

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Look, if you’re getting sick of me constantly harping on about the history of our sport please make your feelings…

Karters to celebrate ‘Return to (Near) Normality’ at first ProKart series round in Hamilton this weekend

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Karters from Auckland and all points south are set to celebrate a ‘return to (near) normality’ this weekend as the…

Regions’ karters step up at latest Goldstar series round in Wellington

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With the Level 3 COVID-19 Lockdown Auckland-based series regulars all agreeing to sit out the second round of the 2020/21…

Friday on my mind

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Last Friday started – literally – with a bang…but ended, if you were like me and had been looking forward…

Wins on and off the track as big southern kart event hit by last-minute change in lockdown levels

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The fact that the KartSport Dunedin club was able to run the second day of the weekend’s annual Southern Series…

Be Kind? Bollocks! We need to name and shame these COVID-19 cowboys!

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Look, it usually takes me a long-ish time to get riled up about something, especially when it is in the…

Matthew Payne and karting’s backdoor route to ‘the top’

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Hey, I’m back; not quite as rested and ready to come up with another year’s worth of columns as I…

Taupo Historic GP to celebrate Jaguar and Daimler in 2022

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The 2022 Taupō Historic GP has already been inscribed in the motorsport calendar and it will celebrate Jaguar and Daimler,…

Collins & Windelburn share F5000 series race wins/kudos in Christchurch

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Local ace Michael Collins (Leda GM1) got within 0.168 of a second of claiming a qualifying/race win/quickest race lap clean…