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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F5000 drivers turn up the heat at Hampton Downs

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After a largely frustrating 12 months in which three of the four race meetings due to host rounds of the…

How we can all stay safer on our roads

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Yes, yes, yes, I’ll get back to the infinitely more interesting world of motorsport next week. In my column last…

Expat Englishman finally gets chance to join SAS/MSC NZ F5000Series this weekend

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When expat English businessman, and keen lifelong amateur race and rally driver Alastair Chalmers emigrated to New Zealand in 2015…

How ‘not’ to reduce the road toll – one TV advert at a time

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I see that the Government is back using mind games (aka TV Ads) to try and change the social behaviour…

Subaru pair hold nerve to claim first Targa event win of 2022

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Auckland pair Cameron Ross and co-driver Matthew Buer  (Subaru Impreza Sti) held their nerve to claim a popular win in…

New Targa pace-setters emerge

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Subaru pair Cameron Ross and co-driver Matthew Buer have emerged as the early event leaders after not one but two…

Weekend’s ‘Baby’ Targa event sign of better times ahead -Organiser

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Organising New Zealand’s world-renowned multi-day Targa tarmac motor rally events has definitely not got any easier of late for the…

Thank Goodness we’ve still got motor racing……

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Yes, well, as the world around us looks increasingly like descending into some sort of dystopian hell, all I can…

Second Hampton Downs win in a row for Team Bond’s #007 Toyota

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Team Bond claimed its second 8-Hour Lemon Squeeze novelty endurance race win in as many days at the Hampton Downs…

Team Bond claims Day 1 win in 8-hour Lemon Squeeze

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Team Bond claimed an impressive overall victory in the first of the weekend’s two 8-hour Lemon Squeeze novelty endurance races…