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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Collins gives F5000 fans an idea of what they missed at Manfield

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When – back in 1972 – famed New Zealand racing driver and racing car designer and builder Graham McRae gave…

Why whatever noise Hayden Paddon’s Hyundai Kona EV rally car makes will be music to my ears.

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Sometimes  I wonder if it is just me, either marching to a different beat to everyone else, or – as…

Close to Home’ call popular with local F5000 series’ drivers & fans alike

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With travel for competition outside New Zealand’s borders virtually impossible now and into next year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic,…

Are friends electric? How a night at the drags helped change my mind about a future without the internal combustion engine

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Seriously. The LAST place I expected to have the ‘scales of my bias against electric cars fall from my eyes’…

Karters revel in return of Islands title racing over long weekend

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Kiwi karters revelled in the return of National-level Sprint Championship competition at this year’s North & South Islands meetings at…

Great Scott (Dixon) – IndyCar title #6 and counting

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I ‘watched’ the final round of the NTT IndyCar Series from St Petersburg, Florida (on Monday morning) via a combination…

Karters flock to support Sprint Title return at Islands meetings this weekend

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With over 200 entries received across Labour Weekend’s annual North and South Island Sprint Championship meetings in Hastings and Blenheim…

“Cometh the hour, cometh the man Pt 1”

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OK, it’s Monday Ocotber19 as I write this, and seeing how this year this particular Monday is the one after…

Podium for Hutton, heartbreak for Douglas at ROK Cup Superfinal meeting in Italy

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Kiwi karters Arie Hutton and Jacob Douglas played key roles in their respective Finals as this year’s ROK Cup Superfinal…

Kiwi karters in box seat after more heat wins at big ROK Cup event in Italy

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Kiwi karters Arie Hutton and  Jacob Douglas are in the box seat after both claimed heat wins in their respective…