Teretonga: 50th Anniversary

To those unaware, Teretonga is Invercargill’s race track.

Their website can be found here;

(click the picture to link)

Every year around the middle and tail end of February, the “Southern Festival of Speed” (a series that has events in Christchurch (Ruapuna), Timaru (Levels), Dunedin (Street Race) and as mentioned, Invercargill (Teretonga)) rolls into town.  Cars come from all over the  globe, the most recent one saw Can-Am cars (amongst others) take to the course, which was a very welcome spectacle to those who were used to much quieter modern machinery and your more typical Formula Ford affairs.

McLaren Can-Am Goodness

You can view the rest of the images in a small scale (350×263)  like the others shown on this page by clicking on the following link;

Teretonga 50th Anniversary – Gallery

If there’s any inparticular that takes your fancy that you would like in a higher resolution (up to the original 2816×2112) then just leave a comment with your email address and I’ll when time permits, I’ll flick one your way.

I’ll leave you with a sample of what I took through-out the day.  I could have got more photos, but when you’re working the recovery truck as well, you get a bit stuck for time and limited to when you can and can’t go wandering about the infield.  Regardless!  As promised…

Can-Am Cars Racing

Repco Brabham Open Wheeler

Austin Healey, the BASTOS Rover & an MGV8

Dolomite Sprint, in Leyland Factory Livery

Three Aussie Inline-6 cylinders

…and last of the preview, something Japanese… just to balance it up a little;

Toyota Corolla AE86

As you can see, more so if you scoped out the gallery, finding variety at “The World’s Southernmost Race Place” is not a problem.  Racing is usually fast and intense, with it being one of the fastest flowing tracks in New Zealand at the moment, there’s usually a share of accidents at most meetings making for seldom a boring day.

I hope you enjoyed the photos.

-Michael