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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The America’s Cup runneth over with cash….which could have been ours!

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Yes, I know the ‘America’s Cup’ is actually – in theory anyway – a sailing event; and – as such…

Karters turn up the heat to ensure first post-Covid-19 meeting is a blast

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KartSport was one of a number of community-based sports around the country able to resume over the weekend without any…

Kiwis on top in key E-Series events in ‘Australia’ this week

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Kiwi drivers were again dominant across two of the biggest e-racing Sim series categories across the Tasman this week. Red…

50 years on – The legacy left by Bruce Leslie McLaren

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I know them virtually by heart now; the words Bruce McLaren wrote in his eulogy to young Cooper teammate Timmy…

Two more wins for Ransley on SIMSpeedTVKartSport NZ Tsukuba return

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There were two more wins for Christchurch-based racing driver Jaden Ransley at the latest Liquidaction & Cook Strait Bookings-sponsored, SIMSpeedTV-hosted…

The Britten V1000 – NZ’s two-wheel taonga?

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In my mind, the late, great John Kenton Britten (1950-1995) will always be linked with the city where he was…

Ransley stamps his mark on latest SIMSpeedTV KartSport NZ ‘Virtual Club Day’

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He came, he saw and this time young Christchurch-based racing driver Jaden Ransley conquered the latest Liquidaction & Cook Strait…

Fantasy meets reality at dream car factory…… in North Canterbury?

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Yep, you read that headline right. There indeed is ‘a dream car factory’ nestled in a valley at Lyford, in…

Dunstall & Stewart dominate second new-look ‘Virtual Club Day’

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BMW Race Series rising star Sam Dunstall and young Wellington karter Ben Stewart dominated the second LiquidAction & Cook Strait…

A Supercars summer? Yes please!

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OK, here’s one of those classic ‘why didn’t I (or someone else I know and whose opinions I respect) think…