Pastor Maldonado won a Spanish Grand Prix thriller on Sunday to take his first Formula One victory and hand former champions Williams their first triumph in 132 races and nearly eight years.
Alex Kelsey, who last month became the youngest driver to win a round of the New Zealand Rally Championship, has been awarded the top seed for this month's Drivesouth Otago Rally.
Formula One's European season fires up in Spain this weekend with Lewis Hamilton and Mark Webber leading a fistful of drivers jostling to become the fifth different winner in five races.
Australia's MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner powered back to the top of the overall standings by a single point on Sunday after fending off Spanish rival Jorge Lorenzo to win in Portugal for the first time.
A shootout is the hallmark of a classic western and it proved the case again when Ford's Will Davison survived a thrilling V8 Supercars finish to claim back-to-back wins in Perth.
Consistency, versatility and reliability - not to mention a huge helping of rider talent - could see Yamaha make it back-to-back national enduro titles this season.
Masterton's Richard Mason has won the Trusthouse Racetech Rally Wairarapa, the seventh time the defending New Zealand rally champion has won his home event.
If watching two ultra-high horsepower cars drifting within 50cm of each other at about 150kmh sounds exciting, the 2012 Drift Battle of the Islands at Timaru International Raceway is the place to be.
Emma Gilmour has her sights set on taking the lead in the 2012 New Zealand Rally Championship when the series visits the Wairarapa this weekend for the second of five rounds.
Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Grand Prix in Bahrain while rage boiled beyond the circuit among protesters who say the ruling family that crushed Arab Spring demonstrations last year should not have hosted the race.
After firing his Holden into the wall during qualifying for race two of the V8 Supercars' ITM400 on the streets of Hamilton, defending champion Jamie Whincup drove a consummate race to systematically hunt down race leader Mark Winterbottom.
Proving that 4WDs do not always rule the roost, Wanaka's Matt Edgar won the handicap race trophy, Class B and the overall title in the 2011/2012 South Island Sports Saloons Series in his 2WD DX Corolla.
Will Power kept Penske Racing perfect this season by picking his way through the field at Long Beach to win his second consecutive IndyCar Series race.
