Posted on 17 May 2012 by NZ Herald
Twice world motorcycling champion Casey Stoner stunned the sport today by announcing he will quit at the end of the season for "family reasons".The 26-year-old Australian, who has won 35 MotoGP races in his career and leads the...
Posted on 17 May 2012 by NZ Herald
French driver Jean Alesi says his slow car is making him feel "unsafe" at Indianapolis 500 practice."Right now, I feel very unsafe, being quite slow in the middle of the track," Alesi said. "So, I am quite concerned for my fellow...
Posted on 16 May 2012 by TV3
Teams and drivers emerged from the Spanish Grand Prix with more questions than answers on just who is the Formula One favourite after five races.
Posted on 15 May 2012 by NZ Herald
Images of Pastor Maldonado celebrating his Formula One victory in the Spanish Grand Prix are being replayed to patriotic music on Venezuelan television, and President Hugo Chavez is heaping praise on the driver.But while F1 fans...
Posted on 15 May 2012 by NZ Herald
Aucklander Mitch Evans had an up and down weekend at the opening round of the 2012 GP3 championships at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya in Spain. The category was a support class for the fifth round of the Formula One series.Evans,...
Posted on 15 May 2012 by NZ Herald
Kiwi motocross ace Courtney Duncan has been notable for her absence from top-level motocross in recent months, but it probably won't be long now before we see her tormenting the boys once again.The 16-year-old Yamaha rider from...
Posted on 14 May 2012 by NZ Herald
After the dreadful mess up in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, which cost Lewis Hamilton his brilliant pole position after they failed to put in sufficient fuel, the last thing McLaren wanted were further embarrassments during...
Posted on 13 May 2012 by NZ Herald
A total of 16 people were injured, one with severe burns, when a fire erupted in the Williams team garage in the aftermath of Pastor Maldonado's victory in the Spanish Grand Prix.Maldonado's win was his first in Formula One, in...
Posted on 13 May 2012 by TV3
Sixteen people were injured when a fire broke out in the garage of the Williams Formula One team Sunday following Pastor Maldonado's victory in the Spanish Grand Prix.
Posted on 13 May 2012 by ta tvnz motorsport headlines auto group
Pastor Maldonado grabbed an astonishing first Formula One
victory today in a Spanish Grand Prix thriller.
Posted on 13 May 2012 by NZ Herald
Pastor Maldonado held off Fernando Alonso to win the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, though Williams' first Formula One victory for eight years was marred by a fire that broke out in the team's garage, injuring 16 people.Maldonado,...
Posted on 13 May 2012 by NZ Herald
New Zealander Mitch Evans has claimed his first victory of the GP3 season, winning at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.Evans was helped by jump starts to Daniel Abt, Felix da Costa and Antonio Spavone, which earned them drive-through...
Posted on 12 May 2012 by ta tvnz motorsport headlines auto group
Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado will start tomorrow's Spanish Grand
Prix.
Posted on 12 May 2012 by NZ Herald
The New Zealand V8 racing scene has heated up again with the announcement of the new national V8 championship series - this one open to Toyota and other makes as well as the traditional Holdens and Fords.MotorSport New Zealand's...
Posted on 12 May 2012 by NZ Herald
Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and car designer who built the fabled Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford's Mustang and Chrysler's Viper, has died. He was 89.Shelby's company, Carroll Shelby International,...