Tag: Hampton Downs | Talk Motorsport
Busy schedule leading into the tail of the season
The Auckland Motorcycle Club Summer Series recommences this Sunday at Hampton Downs – for Round Three on the 2.7 Km…
Will history repeat at Race of Champions Revival meeting this weekend
Will history repeat at the inaugural Taupo Historic GP meeting this weekend? That’s the question students of historic motor racing…
Leitch ready to grab back points
After a home round that promised so much but ultimately proved frustrating, Brendon Leitch is ready to grab back some…
Giving it 110 percent’ earns Smith perfect F5000 score
With a lights-to-flag victory in the feature race at the annual NZ Festival of Motor Racing meeting at Hampton Downs…
Bathurst tribute planned for next year’s NZFMR
This weekend’s NZ Festival of Motor Racing at Hampton Downs belonged to Ken Smith but next year the Waikato circuit…
Smith gets perfect start to tribute race weekend
Supervet Ken Smith (Lola T332) enjoyed the perfect start to the race meeting named in his honour at Hampton Downs…
King Kenny reigns at Hampton Downs
Four wins out of five races in three different cars — not a bad afternoon’s work for Ken Smith, the…
Rare opportunity to see Formula 1 cars in New Zealand
Frank Lyons was at Silverstone in 1977 when James Hunt won the British Grand Prix in a McLaren M26 F1….
From Mexico with love
One of the oldest categories at the New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing at Hampton Downs from January 20-22 is…
History comes alive at Hampton Downs
For six glorious seasons in the 1970s the stock-block 5.0 litre (mostly) Chevrolet V8 F5000 category was New Zealand’s national…