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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Lola’s T332 the F5000 to beat this summer

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Lola’s iconic T332 is back in the winner’s circle at rounds of New Zealand’s world-reknowned SAS Autoparts MSC F5000 Tasman…

Ingram wins opening F5000 race at Manfeild

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Local ‘second-time-around’ racer Kevin Ingram (main photo) (Lola T332)got his 2022/23 SAS Autoparts MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series campaign…

F5000 back in action at MG Classic meeting

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Like a world-class New Zealand wine, the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series, which kicks off it’s…

Targa South Island 2022 underway this weekend

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It’s been a case of ‘all roads leading to Nelson’ this week as the country’s top tarmac rally specialists prepare…

Youth will out! Or how Kalle Rovanperä won this year’s WRC driver’s title

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At a – just turned, to boot – 22-years-of-age, you could be forgiven for thinking that youthful Repco Rally of…

It’s Repco Rally New Zealand time….

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I’m fairly sure that in a previous column I have expressed an odd sort of ‘ambivalence’ to the gravel side…

Continuous 24-Hour Lemons Enduro declared a success

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How do you determine whether (or not as the case may be!) a motor racing meeting you organised and ran…

Excitment builds as start time of NaZCAR Continuous 24-Hour Lemons Enduro draws closer

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The excitement levels are ‘through the roof,’ apparently, as members of the 90+ themed teams and 500 drivers who made…

Winners & Losers – Pukekohe’s fitting farewell!

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Wow what a weekend that was for Kiwi motorsport. Where to begin? Pukekohe of course, for the return – albeit…

Countdown begins for NZ’s biggest ever motor racing meeting….next week!

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The countdown has begun for what organiser Dr Jacob Simonsen believes will be the biggest motorsport event ever to be…