Catherine Pattison

Driver enjoyment registered high enough to warrant running the New Zealand super saloons teams' event as an annual calendar fixture, organiser Shane Maaka said.

Recently it was horses and wagons taking part in the cavalcade meandering down Wanaka 's streets and today it was the tractors' turn.

Looking out the Otago Daily Times branch office's windows on Brownston St offered a view of the hardy 2010 South Island Tractor Trek for Cancer Kids travellers making their way along Brownston St.

Rugged up against the cold, windy day - ear muffs in place - the drivers were scheduled to stop off at the Upper Clutha A and P Show at the Wanaka Showgrounds. 

The tractor owners and enthusiasts from around New Zealand are on a 22-day trip from Bluff to Picton and back. In total, 37 tractors, as well as support vehicles are on the trek, which covers about 2500km and has a tentative finishing date of March 16.

Money raised is going to the Child Cancer Foundation.

Courtney Duncan (13), of Palmerston, did her best to beat the Australians in Sunday's struggle for transtasman motocross supremacy.

Nurturing a child's talent - in anything - is a parent's prerogative. When that ability is in a sport such as motocross and is exceptional, miles travelled and money invested can certainly add up.

New Zealand Jeep Owners Club members gathered at Albert Town last night, keen to prove their ex-military surplus vehicles are not just for show.

The patron of the Otago Jaguar Drivers Club 24 years ago, when the first Best of British Charity Motoring Day in the country was held in Otago, is in for a special tribute tomorrow.

Otago Daily Times photographer Gerard O'Brien took to the air above the fire-ravaged Taieri Plain and watched helicopters filling their monsoon buckets, then "flying in convoys'' into the billowing smoke.

Katherine Prumm is a tough woman but even she was scared when she couldn't move her legs after a horror motorbike crash. Otago Daily Times motorsport writer Catherine Pattison catches up with the motocross star.

In a shortened contest punctuated by uniquely Australian dramas, Allan Dippie's team bettered its qualifying position by 21 places to finish 13th overall in the Bathurst 12-hour race at the weekend.

Allan Dippie is fast acquiring enviable entries in his race logbook of most desirable tracks in the world.