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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Kaspa Pro-Sport D1NZ Drift category comes of age

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I’m sure that when – hopefully in the not-too-distant future – motorsport historians start picking their way back through the…

Ross/Buer remain in front as Targa NZ event nears home stretch

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The attacks on the Subaru Impreza of event-long leaders Cameron Ross and Matthew Buer kept coming thick and fast on…

Third day ‘Hoodoo’ strikes Targa NZ leaderboard

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Ask any veteran of ‘more than a few’ five-day Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally marathons and they will tell…

Subaru rivals battle for the lead in Targa NZ event

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Impressive young Christchurch driver Rory Callaway and co-driver Samantha Gray (Subaru Impreza St1 – main picture) claimed a confidence- boosting…

Subaru squads dominate Targa NZ – Day 1

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Auckland pair Cameron Ross and co-driver Matthew Buer held the narrowest of event leads – just 0:00.5 of a second…

Addition of VCC time trial is ‘Shot-in-the-Arm’ for Targa NZ event

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Joining forces with the Vintage Car Club of New Zealand to create a unique event-within-an-event Time Trial has provided the…

‘Relief’ as start of last year’s postponed Targa NZ event now just days away

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“Relief,” is the emotion Ultimate Rally Group owner and event director Peter Martin says he is feeling the most right…

Where it all started – How Ford got one-make racing off the ground in NZ

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In my column last week, I extolled the virtues of New Zealand’s latest and now longest running ‘one-make’ series, the…

‘Rain stops play’ for F5000 finale at Taupo

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In a rare case of ‘rain literally stopping play’ at a motor racing meeting here in New Zealand, the 2021/22…

Former NZ champ wins again in first F5000 race at Taupo

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It has indeed been a ‘long time between drinks’ for the fastest qualifier and winner of the first SAS Autoparts…