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What we got wrong
This site covers 29 tracks, 330 race nights and hundreds of drivers, and a lot of it was assembled from club posters, Facebook pages and old programmes. Some of it has been wrong. When it is, we fix it and we write down what happened here.
If you know this sport better than we do, you almost certainly do. Tell us and we will check it. No account, no email required.
The standard we hold ourselves to
- • No generated pictures of real places, people or cars. Track photos are the club's own or there is no photo. Class diagrams are drawings and say so.
- • Technical specifications come from the Speedway NZ rulebook, or they are left out. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.
- • Results name their source, or say plainly that we have not confirmed one. A result still under appeal is published as under appeal, never as settled.
- • Photographers are credited by name and linked. If we are using your work and you have not been asked, tell us and it comes down the same day.
- • A person reads every correction. Nothing a stranger sends reaches the site unread, which is exactly why the form can afford to ask for so little.
The log (8)
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Was: The hero played muted footage behind a play triangle, so the site showed a play button over a video that was already playing. It was only findable on a phone, held in a hand, which is where nobody had looked.
Now: The play triangle is gone. There is a small mute control in the corner instead, and it says what it actually does. It took three attempts to get right.
Caught by an anonymous reader -
Was: We named Daniel Nickel as the 2026 NZ Saloon champion, with Bronson Pierce second and Duane Hickman third. None of that happened. The winner and both podium places behind him were invented.
Now: Corrected to Ethan Cook, from Jarred Fletcher and Bradley Korff, and the result now carries its source. We also went through the other 19 results: 12 now name where they were checked, and the 8 we could not confirm say so on the page rather than passing as verified.
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Was: We published the American sprintcar driver as "Joey" Myers Jr on a national championship podium, and the misspelling had spread into two articles.
Now: Corrected to Joel Myers Jr everywhere. He is from Santa Rosa, California, and won the NZ title himself in 2024.
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Was: Seven track pages printed admission prices, and the ones we checked were wrong. Baypark's children's price was listed at $5 when the club charges $10, and the family pass at $45 when it is $50. The wrong prices were also being handed to Google as structured data.
Now: Every price table removed. Gate prices are set by each club and change for special events, and we cannot keep 29 of them current. Track pages now link the club instead. A stale price sends a family to the gate short, which is worse than no price at all.
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Was: The racing classes page printed engine sizes, weights, horsepower and top speeds that were not in any rulebook. It said Superstock engines were 350 to 400 cubic inches; Speedway NZ caps them at 248.5. Sidecar minimum weight was given as 400kg against a real 180kg.
Now: Every specification now comes from the Speedway NZ rulebook or is left out. Horsepower and top speed are gone entirely, because they are not regulated and were pure invention.
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Was: We stated the Gisborne Giants as the settled 2025/26 Superstock Teams champions. A reader who follows the sport told us they had been relegated. Four published sources agreed with us. They asked the better question: relegation is an after-race ruling, so reporting written on the night is structurally incapable of showing it.
Now: The title is now published as won on the night with the result under review, in all three places it appears, until Speedway NZ confirms the outcome of the completed appeal. Speedway NZ currently lists no Superstock Teams result at all.
Caught by an anonymous reader -
Was: 43 videos carried titles and credits that were wrong. Real filmmakers' work was attributed to other people, and one driver's own vlog was listed as footage from nine different tracks.
Now: Every video ID is now checked against YouTube itself before it goes up, and the ones that could not be verified were removed. The creators on /watch are named, linked, and their click-throughs counted so they can see what we send them.
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Was: 21 track pages, and the site's own share image, used AI-generated photographs of real speedways. One of them had a sign in it reading "EST. 1663".
Now: All of them deleted. Most track pages have no photograph now and that is the honest state. The only way to fix it is a club or a photographer saying yes, so we ask, and we credit by name. Baypark's photograph is credited to Jessica Barnes, Blissful Photography and Motorsport, worded as the club asked.
Something wrong on this page?
If you know this sport better than we do, tell us. No account, no email needed.
Thank you, genuinely.
A person reads every one of these. If you are right the page gets fixed and the change goes in our public corrections log, so anyone can see what was wrong and what we did about it.