The second round of the New Zealand Formula 1600 Championship turned out to be an early birthday present for Aucklander Josh Bethune.  Turning 15 on Tuesday, Bethune (Mygale) won two of three races at the Mike Pero Motorsport Park just outside of Christchurch over the weekend and finished runner up in the third.  This was enough for him to win the Wigram Cup and take a four-point lead in the national championship over Callum Hedge (Mygale) with Bailey Paterson (Van Diemen Stealth) in third.

A couple of minutes after the clock had ticked over to 1800, just as the sun was setting and the dusk was rolling over Chang International Circuit, Graeme Dowsett gunned the #77 Team NZ Porsche 997 GT3 out of Turn 12 and down the couple of hundred metres to the finishline for the 188th time that afternoon and deliver GT Cup victory in the 6 Hours of Buriram, the third and penultimate round of Asian Le Mans 2017/18, after a race that had gone like clockwork.

The combination of stars and cars proved a winning one for the new Archibalds Historic Touring Car class at the big 4 Guys Autobarn Legends of Bathurst historic motor racing at Hampton Downs over the weekend.

Victory in the Lady Wigram Trophy race has propelled local teenager Marcus Armstrong into the lead of the Castrol Toyota Racing Series after three races at the Ruapuna track, Christchurch this weekend.

The 17 year old, who won the Italian Formula 4 title last year, took the lead from the start and wasn’t headed in the race for the historic trophy which dates back to 1951 and whose past winners include Bruce McLaren, Jim Clark and Stirling Moss.