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Record-breaking online bid for Porsche 962

The most valuable lot ever sold to an online bidder was the top lot at Bonhams’ recent Spa Classic Sale. The ex-Jürgen Oppermann/Otto Altenbach/Loris Kessel Obermaier Racing 1990–’93 Porsche Type

Jack Brabham: a motor-racing legend

Regular New Zealand Classic Car columnist Donn Anderson has won this year’s MotorSport New Zealand Feature Journalist of the Year award with his ‘Jack Brabham: a motor-racing legend’ article published in our July, 2014

Silverstone Classic to celebrate 25 years

The Silverstone Classic festival, held over July 24–26, was always going to be a big one for the festival that is known as “the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival”

Inkster and Winn claim Targa Bambina honours

Following the successful one-day Targa Sprint event in Auckland earlier this year, the three-day Targa Bambina event just wound up in Rotorua on Sunday, May 17. Taking top honours were

Waterview connection takes flight

  As motoring enthusiasts, I’m sure we’re all intrigued by the new tunnel that’s being built underneath Auckland. The tunnel connects the Southwestern motorway to the Northwestern motorway, and will hopefully ease a

The 90-second SSC build

To build a vehicle capable of exceeding 1000mph on land is no mean feat. To date, 763.035mph is the magic number, achieved in 1997 by Andy Green in Thrust SSC.

The Targa Bambina approaches

The Targa Bambina is just around the corner — held over May 14–17 — and teams will be putting in the last-minute hard yards to ensure their cars are competitive

Race to the Sky has a new king

After taking an in-depth look at the Possum Bourne Motorsport–built Subaru WRC car, we knew the team, and driver Alister McRae, had a good shot at winning the resurrected Repco

Whipped Up: Woolfy’s day out

As a well-known hero of Kiwi motorsport, Alan Woolf has been around for a while, and every now and then you’ll see him out at a track with one of his classics. I got