Will Power aims to make up early lost ground by completing a hat-trick of IndyCar wins at the Barber Motorsports Park street circuit in Alabama this weekend.

The V8 Supercars head across Bass Strait this weekend for the second round of this year's series. IRWIN Racing's Lee Holdsworth is looking forward to Symmons Plains and a split-race format which will feature a half-time period much like a football match.

Jamie Whincup takes motorsport writer Eric Thompson for a hot lap of the new Pukekohe Park Raceway in his Holden V8 Supercar – and bins it through the esses.

New Zealand is perfectly positioned to road-test the next generation of ultra sustainable "green cars", which could play a crucial role in our future, a visiting US innovator says.

Police will be a highly visible presence in urban and rural areas throughout the country over Easter. They would focus on enforcing the lowered 4km/h speed tolerance, which applies during all holiday periods, as well as targeting drunk and dangerous driving.