They’ve done it! Glenn Inkster and Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) have won the annual multi-day Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally for a record-setting fifth consecutive time.

The pair, Inkster a multi-talented gravel and tarmac allrounder from Patumahoe south-west of Auckland, who works as a sales manager for electrical supply industry specialist TransNet, and Winn, the owner of the company and Inkster’s boss, did it in style too.

They played second fiddle to fellow AndrewSimms.co.nz Allcomers class Mitsubishi Evo pair, Haydn Mackenzie and co-driver Matty Sayers, on the first ...    more...

Have four-time and defending Targa New Zealand title-holders Glenn Inkster and Spence Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) done enough to claim a record-making fifth consecutive event win in Queenstown tomorrow?

That was the question being asked late this afternoon as the 57 remaining teams arrived in Heriot for the final stage of the penultimate day of the 24th annual multi-day Targa NZ tarmac motor rally, the 41.33km marathon over the epic Moa Flat road to Ettrick.

Having built up a lead of close to seven minutes after winning six of the seven stages held between Dunedin and Duntroon ...    more...

With his ‘eye back in’ and the exhaust manifold problems which slowed him on the second leg behind him defending Targa NZ title holder Glenn Inkster and co-driver Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) spent a wet, cold Thursday slowly re-building a lead in this year’s southern South Island-based Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally the four-time winner hopes to hold until the finish line in Queenstown on Saturday.

After two days of sultry, hot temperatures and – in the main – dry, fast roads, Thursday’s rain and single digit temperatures favoured pairings ...    more...

Dunedin pair Martin Dippie and Greg Ball (Porsche GT3 RS) were battling for the lead with defending title-holders Glenn Inkster and co-driver Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) at the end of a dramatic second day of this year’s southern South Island-based Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally this evening.

Another local pairing, Regan Hall and Nathan Graham (Porsche 997 Turbo) were also right up there, finishing just a tenth of a second behind Dippie and Ball through the penultimate 7.2km Saddle Hill stage south of the city and heading to the final one over George King Memorial ...    more...

Event rookies Haydn Mackenzie and co-driver Matty Sayers (Mitsubishi Evo 10) showed their hand early on the opening day of this year’s five-day Targa New Zealand tarmac motor rally on Tuesday.

Defending – and four-time consecutive event winners – Glenn Inkster and co-driver Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) won the opening stage from just north of Invercargill to Wyndham. However fellow Aucklander Mackenzie and his Hamilton-based co-driver Matty Sayers were just 1.2 seconds back in second place.

Mackenzie and Sayers then grabbed the overall event lead with a win over the two late model Porsche GT3 ...    more...

Four-time Targa New Zealand event winners Glenn Inkster and Spencer Winn (Mitsubishi Evo 8) from Auckland head south this week as favourites to win this year’s five-day tarmac motor rally marathon from Invercargill to Dunedin and on to Queenstown which starts on Tuesday October 23 and finishes on Saturday October 27.

Such is the attraction of the stunning, fast, open, beautifully-surfaced roads in the Deep South, however, that the 24th annual event – and only the second held in the South Island, the first back in 2014 – has attracted an unprecedented number of potential winners.

Five-time ...    more...