With Formula D nearing its season-ending round, we reminisce on a year filled with plenty of heart-wrenching crashes, controversies, surprises, and upsets within each drift series. Teams getting new drivers, drivers getting new cars, and cars getting new parts, are all typical of what happens in the off-season, isn’t it? Or is it in the off-season that we hear plenty of rumors and gossip about … Details
 Boy racers could soon have a venue for drag racing and burnouts if plans for a motorsport park on the outskirts of Palmerston North go ahead.
Developer Paul Barris has been reviewing designs and assessing public demand for a park at the former Golf City site on Railway Rd.
Features would include a racetrack, drifting area, burnout pad, motorbike jump, foam landing pad, recreation area and …Â Details
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In the movie business, cars are expendable. They’re not respected, nowhere near cherished, subject to abuse and constantly thrashed. It doesn’t matter if the cars are Ferraris or Ford Crown Vics, the job of any vehicle in a movie is to tell the story effectively — even if it must be destroyed in order to do so. And in a movie like Fast & Furious (opening April 3) the cars do a lot of storytelling. We should know; we went … Details