NZ Dirt Track Racing Magazine

27/07/2024

Congratulations to Hayden Brown, Speedway Track Official of the Year!

Wow! How proud are we of this Hayden Brown!
Thank you for work with our track and your commitment to Speedway New Zealand duties
An integral cog in our little club, congratulations on this acknowledgment and achievement

27/07/2024

Jarred Fletcher takes home the Saloon Competitor of the Year award!

Congratulations Jarred Fletcher Motorsport
Speedway New Zealand Saloon Competitor Of The Year
💯 deserved, well done mate
Congrats to too Trent Amrein Motorsport for the nomination, recently crowned South Island champion

27/07/2024

Asher Rees, the 2023/24 SuperStock Competitor of the Year 🔥🔥

27/07/2024

Cody McCarrison is the 2023/24 Streetstock Competitor of the Year!

Well done to Cody McCarrison on winning Competitor of the year Streetstocks. Presented by the President of Woodford Glen Speedway Ivan McPhail

27/07/2024

Graham Hughes of SportsWeb Photography wins Photo of the Year at the SNZ Awards!

Graham’s wall shot from Rotorua qualified for the final three through a public vote on the SNZ page before being selected by a judge as the Photo of the Year.

There were some incredible entries on display over the season, and congratulations to all photographers who had their work showcased through the public voting.

Congratulations Graham on a deserved award!

27/07/2024

Congratulations to the entire team at The Pits Media for your Best Media Support award at the SNZ Awards!

Well deserving winners for everything you do for the sport!

Another trophy in the cabinet.. best media support

Can't do it without awesome tracks and an awesome team

Congrats to Daryl Shuttleworth for best commentary..awesome dude

27/07/2024

The silverware is rolling in for Ruapuna!

27/07/2024

AJ Batt’s ‘When God Raced in Paradise’ has picked up Written Article of the Year at the SNZ Awards in Palmerston North!

When God Raced in Paradise documented the legendary AJ Foyt’s visits to New Zealand, and was supported by an incredible range of images taken by the great Bill Meyer.

The article appeared in NZ Dirt Track Racing Magazine in June 2023, and was an instant hit.

A well deserving winner of an article that captured and shared sporting history with us all.

Congratulations Allan!

27/07/2024

A MASSIVE congratulations to Daryl Shuttleworth for taking out the Speedway Commentary of the Year award at the SNZ awards in Palmy!

stoked and super surprised Speedway NZ Commentary Of The Year Winner.

Firstly thanks to Jason from The Pits Media for accepting this award on my behalf (and congrats on your own award). It seems when I decide to stay away from these events I win ....... I will stay away a bit more.

Thanks to my clubs Aotea Electric Riverside Speedway, Central Motor Speedway and Custom Signs Beachlands Speedway, I cant do what I do without you guys putting on a decent show.

Thanks Orlana, my wife for being so understanding when every weekend in summer is spent at the track, also the rest of my family who support me in my speedway.

Bennie Bishop from Speedway Australia, thanks so much for what you guys have done for me and my commentary, what you Chad, Nults, Bronnie, Dean and Rusty have taught me in your courses have come to fruition, I feel very indebted to you guys across the ditch.

Finally Corbyn and Stu, what a couple of champion finalists to be nominated alongside. Stu, you are a true legend my friend, and Corbyn, im a bloody proud Dad seeing your name there along side ours. We dont do what we do to reap rewards, we do it for the love of the sport, we dont need a trophy for that. Much respect lads.

Thanks to all my supporters and people in the sport of speedway, this award is for us all, this award means so bloody much! ....... 2x NZ Commentator Of The Year, I like the sound of that.

22/07/2024

🇬🇧 2024 UK World Final Fundraiser Auction #1

How awesome is this. Graham Hughes at SportsWeb Photography has kindly sent Caleb a A3 canvas to auction away to one of you. So a massive thank you goes out to Graham for jumping on board and helping Caleb get to the World Final.

Simply place a bid in the comments, highest bid by 8pm on the 29/7/24, will take this awesome canvas home.

Happy to send anywhere in NZ.

No Reserve, Bid Away 🏁

18/07/2024

The 2023/24 NZ Saloon Car Championship brought the curtain down on my racing career which started in the streetstock class way back in 1987. Well at least that’s what I thought at the time.

Having finished on a high placing 5th at the NZ Champs on Monday I was informed by SNZ that two cars finishing ahead of me have failed the post championship inspection and have subsequently been disqualified from the championship. This moves us up to 3NZ and with that honor I feel it is appropriate that we put the 3NZ/21A on the track for selected meetings this season including the national title.

To do this there is some work to do but hopefully we can put it all together and be trackside representing Waikaraka Park Speedway and the saloon car class.

Congrats to Kevin Williams who is now our current 2NZ.

Will update our plans closer to the commencement of the season.

17/07/2024

Things are heating up!

16/07/2024

Our favourite friend and crew chief is doing it tough right now so time for a bit of good news!



I am super excited to announce I’ll be moving into the Skinny Colson - Fan Site/Ayrton Hodson 28M Sprintcar this season! With the move of Ayrton Hodson Racing to HLR for the upcoming season the opportunity was there to move up and I can’t wait to get to grips with the new car. After discussion with Skinny and with someone else already utilising the 28M I am super proud to announce that the famous 66 will return to Speedway.



When we visited Skinny this weekend he managed to stay on the current medical issues for all of 30 seconds before conversation moved to the upcoming season! As he said, I’ll be there no matter what even if Arlene needs to wheel me in!



Thank you to everyone who lent a hand throughout my first and second season in the 28M Six Shooter. For now our thoughts continue to be with Skinny and Arlene in this really difficult time. He loves visitors and if you can’t make it in person give him a message or call.

📸- Wayne Drought

02/07/2024

Issue 455 is doing the rounds!

Features on Brad Lane, Scott Tennant, Ministocks at Oxford, an Ellesmere special and MUCH more!

We're thrilled to have Jason Hill, the Editor of The New Zealand Speedway Almanack, come on board with a two-part special, 'Who is the Speedway GOAT?' Part 1, in our July issue, features an analysis of contact and bike classes!

Subscribe today at https://www.subbuddy.co.nz/shop/nzdtr/ !

Announcement! We've teamed up with the NZ Dirt Track Racing Magazine for a series of articles entitled "The Speedway GOAT" (Greatest of All Time) - using our database of known results at all major national championships and looking at every major speedway class, we've ranked the top drivers in each class and derived a formula to determine the best overall!

We've had a great time putting this together and if you're interested in ranking drivers from yesteryear and a bit of number crunching I think you'll really enjoy the first article in the July magazine which they have just released, with the second to follow in September. Make sure you pick up a copy.

Thanks to the Dirt Track for publishing!

30/06/2024

28/06/2024

Shane van Gisbergen is eyeing a return to Sprintcar racing in New Zealand once his commitments in the United States have finished for the season. The three-time Supercars champion featured in a Sprintcar over the 2022/23 Speedway season and took his first win in the grade in January 2023 in Palmerst...

26/06/2024

An official announcement from Scott Tennant is on the way, with our July issue at the printers!

11/06/2024

Flying the Flag for NZ

Well last night was a dream come true, I’ve raced against Keith Kunz Motorsports for a lot of years and to finally sit in one of their cars was a bucket list ticked ✅
We came oh so close to winning first time out, and had a blast working with Keith and the guys.
I can’t thank Keith, Pete and KKM for the opportunity, let’s hope we can do it again sometime!
MP
📸 Chase Prather

07/06/2024

The 2024/2025 season is going to be a cracker!

6 rounds of top shelf saloon racing!!

22/11 eastern states speedway
23/11 Woodford Glen Speedway
24/11 Greenstone Park Speedway
29/11 Custom Signs Beachlands Speedway
30/11 Custom Signs Beachlands Speedway
1/12 Aotea Electric Riverside Speedway

A shoutout to our returning partners as well as new partners that are joining us for the 2024/2025 season!

Brianfm
RTR Vehicles
Eyrewell Dairy
Ipaint - Painting and Decorating Services
Cando Fishing
Vertex Lubricants
McIndoe Logging
C K Catering

Lock in the dates! Don’t miss out on this epic series!!

06/06/2024

WOW TO RETURN TO EASTERN STATES

The popular Hydraulink War of the Wings Sprintcar series will makes its return to eastern states Speedway Blenheim next February and local speedway club President Stu Coutts couldn't be happier.

"We have waited since November 2020 for an opportunity to host the Sprintcars again and the War of the Wings will put on a heck of a show. I'm rapt, and this will be a big show for us", said Coutts.

Last time the Sprintcars raced at Eastern States Steve Duff jnr set a new track record of 14.0364 during time trials, but Coutts is confident that the magical 13 second bracket will be entered.

"We were really unlucky with the weather last time with rain setting in early in the programme. The track, and the cars have improved since then. I will be very surprised if the track record isnt smashed.We will be the first night in a double header with Nelson hosting the Sprintcars the following night. The war of the Wings organisers have said that defending series champion Joel Myers jnr from the USA is returning to defend his series title, and there is also a strong chance that there will be another American and some North Island drivers appearing at our event."

Coutts said that Myers, who is also the current New Zealand champion and at just 18 years old he is a talent that will become a star.

"This kid is so talented. I am sure in a year or two we will proudly say that we saw Joel Myers race at Eastern States."

The meeting is sure to be a highlight of the season, so Coutts advises that people should mark February 14,2025 in their diary now.

27/05/2024

SprintCar racing at an Australian Supercars event?

A drop-in dirt oval in the Adelaide 500 precinct and an invite-only field, according to Australian publishers Speedcafe.com

Sprintcars will race inside the Adelaide 500 precinct over multiple nights during the Supercars season finale later this year.

22/05/2024

METHANOL MASTERS!
June issue winging its way to subscribers tomorrow, and all good magazine outlets by Thursday next week.

07/05/2024

2024/25 GP, NI and SI title hosts announced!

31/03/2024

Aucklander Ben Harding raced from deep in the pack to win an exciting Bay Super Sundown 30-lapper and grab a $5000 payday on Saturday night. A regular winner at Baypark a decade ago, Harding has only raced occasionally in the last five years. But he’s never stopped studying the engineering of Supe...

26/03/2024

Rascals Run Riot!

The April issue of NZDTRM is making the rounds and will soon be in mailboxes and on a shelf near you!

Featuring the NZ Stockcar Teams Champs, the New Zealand Sprintcar title, the New Zealand Solos title, South Island Midgets and Sprintcar and Battle of the Stocks, plus much more!

Daryl Shuttleworth's piece "Shrivelling Sponsorship Dollar: Turning One Dollar Into Two" is a must-read for any competitor or team!

Enjoy the read, and have a fantastic long weekend!

15/03/2024

Tune in folks!

Be sure to check out 1News at 6pm tonight, I'll be talking about the $20k to win Sprintcar 50 Lapper at Western Springs tomorrow night!

Can't wait to get back out there in our CRC Industries NZ Ze Build sprintcar!
MP
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09/03/2024