Catherine Pattison

New Zealand's leading adventure racing team has done it again.

When Scott Columb starts a conversation with the Otago Daily Times by asking, ''Have you seen the video?'', you know his latest motocross event did not have a happy ending.

New Zealand driver Brendon Hartley will drive for Porsche with Australian former Formula One pilot Australian Mark Webber in the Le Mans 24 Hours race and the 2014 World Endurance Championship (WEC).

Otago riders will be busting out their best moves among the cream of international BMX, mountain bike and freestyle motocross athletes at next Saturday's Farm Jam in Southland.

Scott Columb and Courtney Duncan are within close striking distance of their class leaders, after the national championship's first round,Defending MX2 champion Columb, of Queenstown, started the four-round series strongly at Pleasant Point on Saturday aboard his two-stroke YZ250.

Three of the five Otago riders who contested the 53rd annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville at the weekend have been left nursing injuries.

Motor racing can raise drivers up and just as quickly knock them back down again, Ant Pedersen has discovered. He talked to Catherine Pattison about the life and luck of a ''semi'' professional V8 SuperTourer driver.

Jann Mardenborough had wanted to be a racing car driver for almost as long as he could remember but with no-one he knew in the sport and a family which could not financially support an entry into such a career, he resigned himself to racing on a PlayStation.

The third round of New Zealand's premier single-seater championship, the Toyota Racing Series (TRS) was missing one of its star names at Highlands Motorsport Par, but there was still plenty to entertain a two-day crowd approaching 20,000.

Greg Murphy may be known as the King of Pukekohe but after a totally dominant display in the BNT V8 SuperTourers at the Cromwell circuit this weekend, he laid claim to another royal title - King of Highlands Motorsport Park.