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Hedge Dominant Again In Teretonga Qualifying
Saturday, 21 January 2023, 7:20 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Callum Hedge blitzed the CTFROC field again in Teretonga qualifying. Picture Bruce Jenkins New Zealander Callum Hedge got his title challenge for the 2023 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship back on track with a dominant performance in ... More >>
Gilchrist Again At Teretonga?
Friday, 20 January 2023, 6:32 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Brock Gilchrist may be in his fifth season of the Toyota 86 Championship, but this season has already seen the Matakana racer shift up another gear. A late entry into the championship this season with support from series tyre supplier NEXEN, Gilchrist ... More >>
Can Wurz Win In Invercargill?
Thursday, 19 January 2023, 8:10 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Austria’s Charlie Wurz heads into this weekend’s second round of the Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship as the series leader, but will be looking to take his first win at the fearsome Teretonga Raceway in Invercargill. The young ... More >>
Gilchrist Storms To Race And Round Victory
Sunday, 15 January 2023, 11:16 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Brock Gilchrist raced to a race and round win. Picture Bruce Jenkins Brock Gilchrist stormed to his second race win of the weekend at Highlands Motorsport Park today to win the round and end his weekend with the series lead in the Toyota 86 Championship. ... More >>
Penrose Wins Race Two In Style
Sunday, 15 January 2023, 11:14 pm | Toyota New Zealand
James Penrose took his turn in the winners circle in race two. Picture Bruce Jenkins James Penrose reminded the single seater world there’s more than one outstanding rising Kiwi star with a dominate win in the second race of the Castrol Toyota Formula ... More >>
Hedge On Fire In Second Highlands Qualifying
Sunday, 15 January 2023, 11:11 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Hedge shone again in Sunday qualifying. Picture Bruce Jenkins Callum Hedge stamped his authority on outright speed around Highlands Motorsport Park in the second qualifying session at the first round of the Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship ... More >>
Gilchrist Emerges From Race 1 Drama To Win
Saturday, 14 January 2023, 7:11 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Brock Gilchrist turned pole position into race 1 victory. Picture Bruce Jenkins At the lights he got a great start and had a comfortable lead out of the first chicane but it was all for nothing when a major crash further down the order left newcomers ... More >>
Young Guns Set To Re-launch NZ’s Premier Championship In Style
Thursday, 12 January 2023, 7:35 pm | Toyota New Zealand
It’s three years since Igor Fraga and Liam Lawson gave the motorsport world a nailbiting climax to a closely fought Castrol Toyota Racing Series. Three tumultuous years for the world later and New Zealand’s premier motorsport championship is ... More >>
Fitzgerald In For Last Three Rounds Of Formula Regional Oceania
Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 7:07 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Rising Irish star Adam Fitzgerald will compete for the last three rounds of the inaugural Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship which begins this week at Highlands Motorsport Park in New Zealand's South Island. Adam Fitzgerald ... More >>
New Zealand Campaign Will Start Wurz’s 2023 Season
Thursday, 5 January 2023, 7:23 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Charlie Wurz will be making the step up from Formula 4 to Formula Regional to begin 2023 when he heads to New Zealand to take part in the Castrol Toyota FR Oceania Championship. The son of former F1 racer Alexander Wurz, Charlie, has had a busy year in the lower ... More >>
Indy Nxt Racer More Than Abel To Succeed In Formula Regional Oceania
Wednesday, 4 January 2023, 8:52 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Indy Nxt racer Jacob Abel will join the Kiwi Motorsport team for the 2023 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship. The Louisville, Kentucky racer has been competing in domestic United States competitions since 2017, but the New Zealand-based ... More >>
Championship Victory The Target For Gilchrist
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 7:59 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Brock Gilchrist is title hunting in 2023. Picture Bruce Jenkins Matakana racer Brock Gilchrist will race in the Toyota 86 Championship for a fifth full season in 2023 and will be focussed solely on putting together a title winning campaign. Brock, ... More >>
Townshend Locked In For Full TR86 Season
Sunday, 1 January 2023, 4:00 am | Toyota New Zealand
Hawke’s Bay based racer Harry Townshend will step into the fierce competition of a full Toyota 86 Championship campaign in 2023 after debuting in the category at the non-championship Supercars round last September. Harry Townshend will be one ... More >>
Cotterill Focussed On A Move Up The Grid
Saturday, 31 December 2022, 3:20 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Sam Cotterill is looking to make a significant move up the order in his second season in the Toyota 86 Championship. Last season was the Auckland driver’s first of circuit racing of any sort and his total focus was on learning the car, the race weekend ... More >>
Sceats Joins Race To Inaugural Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Title
Friday, 30 December 2022, 6:58 am | Toyota New Zealand
Another piece of the inaugural Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship has fallen into place with news that another up and coming Kiwi star - Liam Sceats - will contest the full five round championship with multiple title winners M2 Competition. ... More >>
From Ovals To Circuits – Hodson Aiming To Impress
Tuesday, 27 December 2022, 9:41 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Ayrton Hodson is a big name from Sprint Cars. Picture Bruce Jenkins Up and Coming Sprint car ace Ayrton Hodson will be adding circuit racing to a busy schedule of short oval racing in 2023 when he takes on the best up and coming racers in New Zealand ... More >>
Penrose Finally Gets His Chance To Shine
Friday, 23 December 2022, 7:29 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Kiwi James Penrose is all set to fly the flag for title sponsor Castrol in Oceania’s most important single seater championship and will finally get his chance to show what he’s capable of in Toyota’s FT-60. Twenty six year-old Penrose secured a ... More >>
Highlands Winner Steps Up To National Championship
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 12:37 pm | Toyota Racing
Queenstown racer Saxon Sheehan will put winning experience in his Toyota 86 at Highlands Motorsport Park to good use when he steps up to a full campaign in the Toyota 86 Championship in 2023. Queenstown racer Saxon Sheehan will contest the Toyota 86 Championship. ... More >>
Morris Confirmed For Castrol Toyota FR Oceania Championship
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 9:18 pm | Toyota New Zealand
Kiwi Breanna Morris – one of the brightest young female talents in world motorsport – has this week been confirmed for the 2023 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship. The current North Island Formula Ford champion will run the full season ... More >>
Steady Improvement The Goal For Rookie Leach
Friday, 16 December 2022, 12:22 pm | Toyota Racing
Aucklander Tim Leach will compete in a full season of the Toyota 86 Championship and as a rookie in the highly competitive field has set himself the task of improving every time he heads out onto the track - and having plenty of fun in the process. ... More >>
