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RACE DAY - Best Pairs tonight - Last night for the season.

Massive thanks to everyone who makes this happen, crew, sponsors and all the support from everyone.

🌎 Ruapuna Speedway
⏰ Gates open at 4pm Racing starts at 6.00pm
🎥 Live stream RJPTV

🖌️Astyla Design Thankyou

Thankyou to our Sponsors and followers.

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Massive thanks to Insight Building Inspections for getting behind our racing this season.

Started in 2017 by Nick and Aleisha Brownlee, There honest, accurate building reports from people who take real pride in their work.
Nick brings over 20 years of experience as a licensed builder and qualified building surveyor, and what started as a one man band has grown into a solid, trusted team.
With more than 5,000 inspections completed across Christchurch and the Southern Lakes region.

We’re stoked to have Insight Building Inspections backing us. Support like this helps keep us on track and pushing forward every race meeting.
Thankyou for coming to support us at the track and in the pits.

2026 NZ Grass Kart Champs.🇳🇿

Awesome effort by the Ashburton Family Go Kart Club, great track layouts and good management in testing conditions on Sunday. Just the kids racing and they really stepped up.

Deanna drove awesome all weekend, coming home 6th in only her 2nd NZ Champs. Pumped with how she’s progressing.

This was Jenson’s first year in the intermediate grade and we always knew it was going to be tough with the depth of the field. He had some great drives in the standard class, coming home in 15th out of 23.

He also took on the Intermediate Open grade where he came home 8th. He had some great drives in this grade. His first race on Sunday was a wicked drive, running 2nd and right on the leader until he ran out of roll-offs and had to have a goggle swap, and still came home 5th.

Couldn’t be more happier. Other than a small issue in the last race of the open grade, the karts ran like a dream.

Thanks a heap to Muzz for work on the karts over the weekend, and big thanks to Jono and James for a few parts, Clay Pohio for helping guide the kids with lines and keeping them focused.

And as always, thanks to our amazing sponsors.

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Race Weekend – NZ Grass Kart Champs 🇳🇿

We’ve made the trip to Ashburton for the NZ Champs and now it’s go time for Jens and Deanna!

Jens will be taking on both the Intermediate Standard and Intermediate Open classes. It’s his first year in the older grade, so it’s definitely going to be a challenge but it’s all experience and seat time

Deanna lines up in the Midget class for her second attempt at NZ Champs and with big fields.

The kids are ready to give it everything they’ve got and leave it all out on the track.
Big thank-you to those who messaged the kids wishing them luck 💕

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Thank-you to our sponsors

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Wee words to Boo on the podium on Saturday night..
This is why I race to show you anything is possible. 💜
📸 Motorsport Files

What was meant to be a double header weekend ended up being just Saturday night, thanks to Mother Nature putting a dampener on Friday. That led to a very heavy track on Saturday.

Heat 1: Grid 5 → Finished P5
Was going alright until I hit a massive chunk of clay, which bent the floor pan into the steering and made it almost impossible to turn. Limped it home for 5th.

Heat 2: Grid 6 → Finished P9
Made some poor line choices and pretty much repeated Heat 1.

Heat 3: Grid 2 → Finished P1 🥇
With how rough the track was, I knew I just needed a strong first lap and to hit my marks. Managed to do that and come away with the win.

Feature: Grid 5 → Finished P2 🥈
Starting 5th on a technical track, I knew I could move forward but also lose ground just as quickly. Got a great start and into 4th early, then worked my way into 3rd using traffic. Probably where I would’ve finished if Cooper didn’t have a mechanical.

Big congrats to Boothy on another win — he was in a different time zone in that feature.
With the kind of night we had, the help in the pits was hugely appreciated Thank-you Quint, Steve, Bonnie, Olivia Stewart and Logan Hill, Sue and Muzz thank you for putting in the hard yards and also getting the tonnes of clay off the car.

Peter Murphy Racing thankyou for keeping me sharp between the ears.

Massive thanks to our sponsors
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Unfortunately tonight’s meeting has been called off due to the weather 🌧️

But we’re back into it tomorrow night at Ruapuna Speedway early.
See you all there.

🎟️ Gates open: 2PM
⏰Racing kicks off early: 4PM
🎥 Watch live: RJPTV
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Thank-you to all my sponsors and everyone for there help and support.

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Insight Building Inspections
Mckay Motorbodies
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Wolfbrook Residential
HPE Automotive Services
Finesse Beauty Boutique
Gilmour Motors
A + S Real Estate
Harris Signs & Graphix
Ryno Power New Zealand
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Powered By A+S Real Estate

A huge thank you to A + S Real Estate for coming on board and supporting our racing this season!

Founded in 2025 and based in Darfield, A+S Real Estate is led by the incredible team of Amy Jones and Shar Simôn. With over 18 years of combined experience, they bring a fresh, innovative approach to the industry offering a genuine personal touch alongside outstanding local knowledge.

We’re proud to have such a passionate and driven team backing us, and we truly appreciate your support in helping us get to the track and do what we love.
Make sure to get in touch with Amy and Shar for all your real estate needs, you’ll be in great hands!

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🏁 Double Header Weekend – Clay Cup & CTRA South Island Champs

We had a big weekend of racing with the Clay Cup on Saturday night and the CTRA South Island Champs on Sunday.

Saturday – Clay Cup
A really good field of Lightning Sprints turned up.
Heat 1 – Grid 9 | Finished 11th 😔
This one definitely didn’t go as planned. I was hoping for a strong start to the night but probably over drove it a little and got a bit loose coming out of Turn 4. Luckily I didn’t lose any spots and carried on. After a yellow restart I rode another driver’s wheel and had the car up on two wheels before regaining it and finishing 9th on track. Unfortunately I was called upstairs and sent to the rear of the field for being to loose, so it wasn’t the start to the night I was hoping for.

Heat 2 – Grid 2 | Finished 2nd
After the first heat I knew I had to make the most of the front row start. I got a great jump on Boothy and led the first four laps, but he had some serious pace. Even though I set my fastest lap time around Ruapuna, he just had a little bit more and we came home in P2.

Heat 3 – Grid 10 | Finished 5th
With a few cars having mechanical issues, it was basically a pre final with the top four cars starting in front of me. The car felt great and we managed to come home in 5th.

Final – Grid 6 | Finished 5th
I was really looking forward to this as it was my first 20 lap final. I got a good start and moved into 5th early, sitting right on the back of the front group. Around lap 8 the car started missing coming out of the turns. I hoped it would clear itself but it stayed for the rest of the race, so I nursed it home for 5th.

Overall I was pretty happy with the night.
Congrats to Boothy on the win , he was locked in all night and deserved it, and also to Cooper and Jayden on their placings.
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Sunday – CTRA South Island Champs

After the issues on Saturday night, Quint went straight to the work shop, and with help from Jayden and some new parts he didn’t get home until after 2am, hoping we had solved the problem for Sunday.

Heat 1 – Grid 11 | Finished 9th
The good news was the car was running mint. The bad news was I just didn’t feel comfortable on the track and really only made spots from other people’s mistakes.

Heat 2 – Grid 1 | Finished 7th
This was probably one of my worst drives to date. I really struggled and couldn’t find a line that worked for me, and I ended up shuffled back to 7th.

After a serious debrief and maybe a few swear words plus a lot of drawing on the whiteboard, we came up with a plan on where to run and adjusted the car accordingly.

Feature – Grid 10 | Finished 5th
The silver lining from my average heats was that if I could make some passes, the Hard Charger award (which had been jackpotting for a few meetings) was up for grabs.
I managed to get the car on the drivey dirt, made some good passes, and worked my way up to 5th. I showed my nose to Jayden for 4th but that’s where we finished. Pretty happy to come home 5th and take the Hard Charger award.

Congrats to Cooper on the win, and Boothy and Clay on their placings.
Big Thankyou Quint and Jaden

Next meeting 27th & 28th March at Ruapuna Speedway for the GP and fireworks 👍
📸 Motorsport Files thankyou

Thank-you to all my sponsors and everyone for there help and support.
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RACE DAY - SOUTH-ISLAND CHAMPS 🏁
At Ellesmere Speedway

We had a mechanical issue in feature last-night the car developed a miss, managed to finished the race.
Was a very late night in the shed but fingers crossed todays a new day 👍

Massive thanks to everyone who makes this happen, crew, sponsors and all the support from everyone.

⏰ Gates open at 9am Racing starts at 1.00PM
🖌️Astyla Design Thankyou

Thankyou to our Sponsors

SprayMarks
Absolute Homes
Arbor-Tek Limited
Insight Building Inspections
Mckay Motorbodies
Faast F**t Hornby
QUE HOMES
Thirsty Acres
Wolfbrook Residential
HPE Automotive Services
Finesse Beauty Boutique
Gilmour Motors
A + S Real Estate
Harris Signs & Graphix
Ryno Power New Zealand
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