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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Local F5000 fans have two of their own to cheer on at Manfeild this weekend

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Local fans of New Zealand’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series have two of their own to…

Targa NZ winner Haydn MacKenzie is just getting into his stride

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Sometimes, good things take time. Like Haydn Mackenzie’s two Targa event wins this year, the first in the three-day Targa…

How do you tell a racing driver to slow down?

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Good question, eh? How DO you, I, or a concerned partner, family or team member tell a racing driver that…

Mackenzie & Sayers make it two-out-of-two with emphatic Targa NZ win

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Haydn Mackenzie and co-driver Matthew Sayers (Mitsubishi Evo 10) have won the five-day/1932km 25th anniversary Targa New Zealand tarmac motor…

Shock exit for Inkster & Winn; all eyes now on battle for second behind Mackenzie & Sayers

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Bang, and that was it. Sitting forlornly on the side of the road with its bonnet up in the first…

Excitement builds ahead of first KartSport NZ Endurance title meeting

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Teams-based Endurance racing plays a major part in KartSport competition elsewhere in the world. So excitement is building for the…

Inkster & Winn shrug off ‘toughest day’ tag to further extend Targa NZ lead

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Shrugging off the traditional ‘toughest day’ tag, defending Targa NZ title-holder Glenn Inkster and co-driver Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8)…

Ayrton Senna and the true value of the words ‘World’ & ‘Champion.’

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Like a lot of once rather ‘formal’ things, the concept of being a genuine, bona fide ‘World Champion’ is fast…

October is Targa month here in NZ

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Since the first, fledgling event, way back in 1995, October has always been ‘Targa month’ as far as I’m concerned….

The Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 – Now it’s OUR greatest race as well?

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Seriously. How good was the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 race – indeed the whole meeting – at Mt Panorama this…