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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New Targa pace-setters emerge

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Subaru pair Cameron Ross and co-driver Matthew Buer have emerged as the early event leaders after not one but two…

Weekend’s ‘Baby’ Targa event sign of better times ahead -Organiser

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Organising New Zealand’s world-renowned multi-day Targa tarmac motor rally events has definitely not got any easier of late for the…

Thank Goodness we’ve still got motor racing……

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Yes, well, as the world around us looks increasingly like descending into some sort of dystopian hell, all I can…

Second Hampton Downs win in a row for Team Bond’s #007 Toyota

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Team Bond claimed its second 8-Hour Lemon Squeeze novelty endurance race win in as many days at the Hampton Downs…

Team Bond claims Day 1 win in 8-hour Lemon Squeeze

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Team Bond claimed an impressive overall victory in the first of the weekend’s two 8-hour Lemon Squeeze novelty endurance races…

Novelty race event organiser leads the charge to keep motorsport events on track

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Despite the daily infection rate of the more infectious Omicron strain of the COVID-19 Coronavirus now over 1500 and expected…

Motor race event organiser puts the squeeze on COVID-19 so that NaZCAR/LeMons teams can race on

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In theory the NZ Government’s decision late last month to plunge the country back into the strictest (red) setting of…

Local F5000 series will go ahead – but new round dates very different to those originally planned

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The good news for Kiwi motor racing fans – starved of world-class historic motor racing action by the New Zealand…

Winning Mazda Series start for rookie second-gen racer Ben Stewart

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Wellington teenager Ben Stewart has enjoyed a near-perfect start to his debut season contesting the Nexen New Zealand Mazda Racing…

Legacy of famed Kiwi drivers to live on at Skope Classic

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The legacies of  some of New Zealand’s greatest racing drivers – Graham McRae and Bert Hawthorne amongst them – will…