Super saloons will race at WXC Speedway Western Springs tonight for the first time in 23 years.

Kiwi Brendon Hartley has a chance of clinching the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship.

IndyCar driver Scott Dixon has only two rounds left in this year's championship to pounce on Juan Pablo Montoya and Graham Rahal and claim his fourth IRL title.

Near misses and Houdini acts were the theme as sprint car ace Michael Pickens escaped the field to win round three at WxC Speedway Western Springs on Saturday night.

Touring car legend Jim Richards rates Kiwi youngster Scott McLaughlin a big chance to give Volvo victory over the Holdens and Fords in the Bathurst 1000 on Sunday.

As a television motoring reporter, Shaun Summerfield has found himself in all sorts of vehicles travelling at all sorts of speeds, but today's activity - a blast around Western Springs on a speedway bike - is a whole new level of scary.

If there was a 'Won't Be Seen Again' category at the Halberg Awards, an unlikely speedway triumph 35 years ago would go close to winning.

American sprintcar driver Jonathan Allard has endured some terrible luck at WXC Speedway, Western Springs.

The clock is ticking on Western Springs as a speedway venue, with the popular sport "almost certain" to move from the historic Central Auckland venue.

Former world speedway champ is a Danish celebrity and a really happy chappy.