Ross MacKay is an award-winning journalist, author and publicist with first-hand experience of motorsport from a lifetime competing on two and four wheels. He currently combines contract media work with weekend Mountain Bike missions and trips to grassroots drift days.

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It’s Repco Rally New Zealand time….

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I’m fairly sure that in a previous column I have expressed an odd sort of ‘ambivalence’ to the gravel side…

Continuous 24-Hour Lemons Enduro declared a success

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How do you determine whether (or not as the case may be!) a motor racing meeting you organised and ran…

Excitment builds as start time of NaZCAR Continuous 24-Hour Lemons Enduro draws closer

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The excitement levels are ‘through the roof,’ apparently, as members of the 90+ themed teams and 500 drivers who made…

Winners & Losers – Pukekohe’s fitting farewell!

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Wow what a weekend that was for Kiwi motorsport. Where to begin? Pukekohe of course, for the return – albeit…

Countdown begins for NZ’s biggest ever motor racing meeting….next week!

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The countdown has begun for what organiser Dr Jacob Simonsen believes will be the biggest motorsport event ever to be…

May the best Scott win! (Or) I really didn’t see THAT coming. Did you? 

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OK, the NTT IndyCar Championship is one of the few major motor racing series in the world to consistently need…

Beware of rich men in boats…

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Look, I suppose I should be happy that there actually was some motorsport in the NZ Herald newspaper’s sports section last Monday…

NaZCAR Pro Series titles decided at Pukekohe farewell

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They came, they saw and with yet another virtually flawless performance, Mal Chamberlain and co-drivers David & Nathan Cox (Team…

NaZCAR Pro Series Champions will be crowned at Pukekohe this weekend

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Eight new New Zealand champion teams will be crowned at the final round of this year’s NaZCAR Pro Series 3…

Why my writing career took a shaky turn? 

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In theory it’s no secret that I’ve ‘got’ Parkinsons…. but in practise, since first being diagnosed back in – what,…