CAPTION: Invercargill’s Cormac Buchanan (bike No.28), the leading rider in two separate classes after racing near Timaru at the weekend. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com The points tables do nothing to indicate the closeness of racing in this season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK). The competition kicked off at Christchurch just over a week ago,...Read More
URGENT: NZSBK Round 1 Update Unfortunately the NZSBK Rd. 1 content we were going to play out at 1700 on Sky Sport 5 has been delayed & won’t make its planned TX. The content will now play out tomorrow (Thursday 14 January) at 1700. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.Read More
Sky Sport Next are pleased to share the dates and times of the various replays happening on Sky Sport. First replay is tonight on Sky Sport 5 and they run through to the 10th of March a the moment. Channel Date Start Slot Duration Programme Name Sky Sport 5 13/01/2021 17:00:00 04:00:00 Sky Sport Next:...Read More
It’s one down and three to go in this year’s chase for motorcycle road-racing honours and the action on tarmac is set to get hotter as the series progresses. The first round of four in the 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK) was held at Mike Pero Motorsport park, Ruapuna, on the outskirts of Christchurch,...Read More
SUPERSPORT 150 TYRE DISPENSATION A dispensation has been applied to Supersport 150 (Appendix J) rule 5.c) to allow the use of 110 width front tyres, for the 2021 season only. NUMBER BOARD REQUIREMENTS Reminder from The Technical Steward of the requirements for race numbers on all machines competing at any road race event: The MNZ...Read More
Motorcycling Australia (MA) is excited to announce Australian Yannis Shaw and New Zealander Rogan Chandler will be the two Moto3 Wild Card riders for the 2019 Pramac Generac Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, which will run at the iconic Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, October 25-27. Both riders will spearhead an assault racing with the Double...Read More
This season’s New Zealand Superbike Championships were certainly drama-filled, so thrilling in fact that even the great Alfred Hitchcock would probably have blushed … it could not have been scripted any better. The premier 1000cc superbikes class went right down to the wire at the fifth and final round of the series at Taupo’s Bruce...Read More
Taupo’s Scott Moir is feeling the heat, so it’s just as well that he’s a cool customer under fire. Moir had led the 2019 New Zealand Superbike Championships after three of five rounds of the series, but he came under a withering attack from Glen Eden’s Daniel Mettam at round four in Feilding last weekend...Read More
There were several key changes at the top after drama-filled racing at the fourth round of five in the 2019 New Zealand Superbike Championships at Circuit Chris Amon, Manfeild, on the outskirts of Feilding, at the weekend. The premier 1000cc superbike class saw a new leader emerge, the third different individual to head the class...Read More
There will be no let-up as the 2019 New Zealand Superbike Championship roars towards a thrilling conclusion, the fourth round of five set for the Manawatu region this coming weekend. It was edge-of-the-seat excitement at round three of the series at Hampton Downs at the start of this month, the event that weekend sharing the...Read More
