Rally News What to expect from New Zealand’s southern return After a 20-year hiatus, the New Zealand Rally Championship will once again feature the stunning aurora australis (southern lights) as its backdrop. This weekend, the… Read more by Jon Scoltock June 19, 2024
Rally News Paddon’s absence opens door for Otago’s local hero Emma Gilmour knows this could be the moment. For two decades she’s chased a home win in Dunedin and with Hayden Paddon competing on another… Read more by David Evans April 12, 2024 2 min
Rally News Why Otago Rally is worth watching It’s sometimes easy to overlook the backbone of the Central Machine Hire Otago Rally when you’re staring at Kris Meeke in that Escort. Or Brandon Semenuk in… Read more by David Evans April 11, 2024 2 min
Rally News Daybreaker Rally ready for long-awaited return Hayden Paddon’s good at history. Or good at writing history. A month or so ago he became the first ever non-European to lift the coveted… Read more by David Evans September 20, 2023 2 min
Extreme E Features How to achieve your dream: XE racers’ advice Incredibly, we’re almost halfway through DirtFish Women’s Month already. We can only hope that you’ve been inspired by our content so far and continue to… Read more by Luke Barry March 25, 2023 2 min
Rally Features The latest Olympic star embarking on a rallying debut Midway between Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty coast, Sarah Walker looked out of the window of the family home in Kawerau. Her brother Matt… Read more by David Evans March 21, 2023 3 min
Rally Features DirtFish partners with Otago Rally for a second year! Markko Märtin was slightly taken aback by the question. He hadn’t seen this one coming. He smiled, thinking through his answer. “I think you know… Read more by David Evans March 2, 2023 3 min
Extreme E Features Why Foust believes McLaren is raising the game in XE Despite McLaren’s penchant for more traditional circuit racing, Extreme E is certainly no sideshow for the brand that’s undergone reinvention in the last decade. In… Read more by Dominik Wilde October 9, 2022 2 min
Rally News Why New Zealand’s female entry numbers are so high Emma Gilmour doesn’t really get it. It’s just New Zealand. And it’s just what New Zealand women do. As you’ll have seen through March, DirtFish… Read more by David Evans April 13, 2022 2 min
Rally News Paddon dominates for ninth Otago Rally win Hayden Paddon has won New Zealand’s Winmax Otago Rally for a ninth time, breaking several stage records along the way to seal victory over Ben… Read more by Luke Barry April 9, 2022 3 min
Rally News Video Paddon in control after first day of Otago Rally Hayden Paddon battled through a driveshaft problem on his Hyundai i20 AP4 to lead the Winmax Otago Rally by over three minutes at the end… Read more by Luke Barry April 8, 2022 3 min
Extreme E Features How Extreme E has elevated women in motorsport Extreme E burst into the off-road motorsport world with a clear mission last year: to help raise awareness of climate change. But it has also… Read more by Luke Barry March 6, 2022 5 min
Extreme E Features How McLaren has prepared for its new off-road challenge Entering a championship during its second year always tends to mean one of two things for a team: a nice advantage by virtue of its… Read more by Dominik Wilde February 11, 2022 3 min
Rally Features When two best friends go rallying “I absolutely love rallying and I’d love to be doing it professionally but the reality is you’ve still got to enjoy it. So if you… Read more by Luke Barry November 7, 2021 5 min
Extreme E Features The driver taking McLaren back to the future With McLaren confirming a driver line-up consisting of an American and a New Zealander, you could be forgiven for thinking the year was 1970-something and… Read more by Dominik Wilde November 3, 2021 3 min
Extreme E News Emma Gilmour moves Extreme E teams to McLaren for 2022 Emma Gilmour will complete McLaren’s driver line-up for the 2022 Extreme E season, joining Tanner Foust at the British team. Gilmour, who has been making… Read more by Dominik Wilde November 3, 2021 3 min
Extreme E Features How an Extreme E reserve has become a Veloce racer The upcoming Arctic X-Prix in Greenland will mark the Extreme E debut of Emma Gilmour, the Kiwi rally driver who also enjoyed a spell racing… Read more by Dominik Wilde August 18, 2021 3 min
Extreme E News Gilmour steps up to race with Veloce in Greenland Emma Gilmour will make her Extreme E debut for Veloce Racing at the upcoming Arctic X-Prix, deputising for Jamie Chadwick. Chadwick has W Series commitments… Read more by Dominik Wilde August 16, 2021 2 min
