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The 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK) kick off in Christchurch this weekend and so will begin the battle to find the nation’s best motorcycle road racers across half a dozen separate bike categories. Christchurch’s Alastair Hoogenboezem may be the defending national superbike champion and Whakatane’s Mitch Rees may have ruled the 1000cc class during…
By Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com It was a typical summer scorcher in Canterbury at the weekend as the 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK) got underway in thrilling fashion. The four-round series kicked off at Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Ruapuna, on the outskirts of Christchurch, and the two-day Underground Brown-sponsored affair produced some of the closest…
JANUARY 11, 2021: It was double celebration time for Team Rees Honda Racing at the weekend as sibling rivals Mitch and Damon Rees both shone out at the opening round of the motorcycle road-racing nationals. The four-round 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK) were launched at Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Ruapuna, on the outskirts of…
By Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com The 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships event set for Taupo next weekend (March 13-14) will go ahead as planned. A spanner was thrown in the works last week when the latest efforts by the Government to curb the COVID-19 pandemic forced Auckland into alert Level Three and the rest of the…
The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced a few cut-backs, but the 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships finale this weekend will be a thriller nonetheless. Reduced from four rounds to three, just as it was last season when the virus first reared its ugly head, the final showdown for the 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK)…
By Andy McGechan, www.BikesportNZ.com The old and the new, the novices and the veterans, amazing debuts and first-time title winners, the COVID-19 pandemic-shortened 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships had it all. Reduced from four rounds to three, just as it was last season when the virus first reared its ugly head, the third and final…
Much of the interest at the Jennian Homes New Zealand Track and Field Championships is likely to centre on the country’s king and queen of shot put, Tom Walsh and Dame Valerie Adams, when the event returns to the beautiful region of Hawke’s Bay this Friday and Saturday. The national championship event, which dates back…
Matthew Grayling has once again triumphed in the pinnacle class of New Zealand eventing, the National Three Day Championship. The Taranaki dairy farmer steered Trudeau, owned by Winky Foley and Bruce Smith, to a very popular win in the 15-strong DVS Home Ventilation CCI4–L National Championship class and hoist the Wills Trophy, adding to the…
The country’s top cyclists will race for glory on the streets of central Christchurch this Sunday as the Criterium National Championships returns to the city. Cyclists will be competing for national elite and Under 19 titles on a multi-lap 1.1 kilometre race circuit around Cambridge Terrace, Cashel Street, Montreal Street and Gloucester Street. “The Criterium…
The streets of central Christchurch will be turned into a racetrack for New Zealand’s top cyclists when the Vantage Criterium National Championship return to the city on Sunday 15 November. Christchurch successfully hosted the championships last year for the first time since 2010. Cycling New Zealand’s plan was that Christchurch would host them again in…