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Buy a Casio Edifice watch and be in to win an ITM Auckland SuperSprint VIP experience

10 October, 2016

Thanks to Casio and its elegant Edifice watch range, you could experience the ITM Auckland SuperSprint in style. The grand prize includes two ITM Auckland SuperSprint three-day VIP passes, and, if required, two nights’ accommodation, return flights, and car hire. It also includes a $200 MTA fuel voucher, plus the chance to meet the drivers and take part in a grid walk.

All you need to do to go in the draw is purchase any Casio Edifice watch from participating retailers between Monday, September 5, and Sunday, October 16. Participating stores include: Stewart Dawson stores, Christies Papatoetoe, Christies Palmerston North, Christies Richmond, Daniels Showcase Jewellers, Wrights Showcase, Baywatch, Skelts, Cambridge Jewellers, Stonex Otahuhu.

To finish first, first, you must build a winner

5 February, 2025

Can-Am royalty
Only three M20s were built, including the car that was destroyed at Road Atlanta. This car was later rebuilt. All three cars were sold at the end of the 1972 season. One of the cars would score another Can-Am victory in 1974, driven by a privateer, but the M20’s day was done. Can-Am racing faded away at the end of that season and was replaced by Formula 5000.
These days the cars are valued in the millions. It was unlikely that I would ever have seen one in the flesh if it hadn’t been that one day my editor asked me if I would mind popping over to Taranaki and having a look at a pretty McLaren M20 that somebody had built in their shed.
That is how I came to be standing by the car owned and built by truck driver Leon Macdonald.

Lunch with … Roly Levis

31 January, 2025

Lunching was not allowed during Covid 19 Lockdowns so our correspondent recalled a lunch he had with legendary New Zealand racing driver Rollo Athol Levis shortly before he died on 1 October 2013 at the age of 88. Michael Clark caught up with Roly and members of his family over vegetable soup