Ross MacKay

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 a day job editing NZ4WD magazine with contract media work, weekend Mountain Bike missions and towing his 1989 Nissan Skyline drifter to grassroots meetings around the North Island.

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OK, this week we have got some good NZGP news to go with the bad

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Look, the date decision – you know, running the contemporary New Zealand Grand Prix race meeting at Hampton Downs on…

Look back in history Sunday: First appearance of Ford Falcon Rallye Sprint has historic racing aficionados excited

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While its iconic Mustang model is most usually associated with Ford Motor Company’s touring car racing exploits of the 1960s,…

Cream rises to the top in Taranaki for Goldstar karters

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The cream definitely rose to the top at the opening round of the 2020/21 Manawatu & TRC Toyota-backed Wellington Provincial…

The feedback loop – and what another date clash has got to do with it!

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Feedback is important to people like me. Yet – save me from myself someone!!! – I’m still a reader as…

Growth in Senior numbers sign that Goldstar kart series is doing its job

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With 127 entries (up from 118 in 2019) for the first round of the latest (61st annual!) Manawatu & TRC…

Reduced format could be silver lining to Castrol Toyota Racing Series’ COVID-19 cloud this summer

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So, it WAS true – you know, the story that leaked out several months ago now that the Castrol Toyota…

Age no barrier for repeat winners of KartSport NZ Briggs Endurance title race

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Last year when the Lexus Landscaping team of Tim Hobbs, Stirling Hughes and Augustin Gonzalez won the inaugural KartSport New…

Robert Hutton awarded Life Membership of KartSport New Zealand

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Close to 30 years of active involvement in virtually every part of the sport from driving to administration was recognised…

Second Kartsport NZ Briggs Endurance title meeting set to build on success of first

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This time last year the KartSport Wellington club hosted the inaugural KartSport New Zealand Briggs National Endurance Championships meeting at…

SVG and the days, the dates, and the times when some things are just meant to be!

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Wow, what a weekend for motorsport fans in Auckland. In theory I should have been anywhere BUT Auckland yet at…