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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May the best Scott win! (Or) I really didn’t see THAT coming. Did you? 

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OK, the NTT IndyCar Championship is one of the few major motor racing series in the world to consistently need…

Beware of rich men in boats…

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Look, I suppose I should be happy that there actually was some motorsport in the NZ Herald newspaper’s sports section last Monday…

NaZCAR Pro Series titles decided at Pukekohe farewell

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They came, they saw and with yet another virtually flawless performance, Mal Chamberlain and co-drivers David & Nathan Cox (Team…

NaZCAR Pro Series Champions will be crowned at Pukekohe this weekend

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Eight new New Zealand champion teams will be crowned at the final round of this year’s NaZCAR Pro Series 3…

Why my writing career took a shaky turn? 

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In theory it’s no secret that I’ve ‘got’ Parkinsons…. but in practise, since first being diagnosed back in – what,…

Final Pukekohe Park Raceway opportunity for NaZCAR 3 & 6 Hr Pro Series entrants

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The enquires started even before the news was made public that all motor racing activity at Pukekohe’s Pukekohe Park Raceway…

F5000 series in pole position at last big meeting before Pukekohe circuit closes for good

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When the news finally broke that New Zealand’s iconic Pukekohe Park Raceway would close in early 2023, rather than being…

Life’s a drag for Kiwi Skyline owners – the extraordinary (local) story of Nissan’s BNR32 GT-R Pt 3

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It’s funny (as in funny-odd, or strange, rather than funny ha ha!) the way ‘things’ work out way down here…

‘Consistent & quick’ the winning formula for NaZCAR Pro Series round

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While first-past-the-post honours were shared by BMW E36-mounted Class 1 front-runners, Team Mag Motorsport’s Garry Cammock and Michael Jane (6…

Cooler temps no barrier to hot action on track this weekend

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Once upon a time, not that long ago, summer was for circuit racing, winter for rallying, and it was very…