Hatton Motorsport

30/10/2026

Meeanee opening night 4B

Grid 3 for race one, dropped way down the pack on a very wet track struggling to get a good lap in to finish 12th.

Grid 11 for race two, a much better track surface getting in good laps to finish 7th.

Grid 8 for the feature, some really good battles with my best friend Lauren in the 42B, 3 of us fighting for 2nd spot but got caught up to finish 4th!

All in all a good opening night for us! A good check over and we’ll be all go for fireworks night on the 7th November!

Huge thank you to mum, Dad, Jordan, Zach, Brooke and all of my sponsors who have stayed on board or are new this season!!

Bay Tyres
Bronto Laser NZ ltd
COF’s Hawke’s Bay Ltd
Forestry Maintenance
KRS ltd 2003
Phoenix Contracting
Flushed Drainage
Ace Performance
Repco Hastings
Taraura Auto Electrical
MadMax Motorsport

📸HH Visuals

27/10/2026

26/10/2026

5B Meeanee opening night recap!

My first time racing a Stockcar and first time racing since 2021, had no expectations going into the night just planning to keep learning the car and the track after a pretty successful 3 runs at practice a couple weeks ago.

🟩 Heat 1, starting from grid 15 got off to a decent start on the heavy track staying with the pack, a half spin and sending myself into the concrete in turn 1 still managed to finish up 9th!

🟧 Heat 2, coming off grid 18 a half spin and the RR break dragging making it a handful to drive finishing up 12th!

🟥 Feature, due to being on mentor and starting from the rear we had grid 11, decent start but struggled a lot with the car pushing almost every corner I tried to change my driving to suit the car but didn’t really help, got half spun out coming out of turn 4 managed to clutch it and carry on still finishing up 10th!

Overall a successful first outing, few good things to take away over the next two weeks we will go through the brake system replace the front wheel bearings, and look into our suspension to get some more adjustment in the right places.

Massive thank you to my friends and family who helped get me to the track and came out to support us on Saturday!

Thank you to my sponsors
🟠 PLAN B Hydraulics Ltd
🔵 KRS Engineering
⚫️ Bronto Laser NZ ltd
🟢 Forestry maintenance ltd
🔴 Repco Hastings
🟡 Lightning race team

See you on the 7th of November at Meeanee Speedway

📸 Credit to HH visuals for the photos

Cheers, Zach

03/10/2026

Here it is! Zach’s car ready for this season! 🤩

Firstly a massive thank you to Lightning race team for everything they’ve done to help me, Jeremy for painting the body to Kylie for printing and applying the sign writing, to Johnny for allowing me to borrow a trailer for the season and everything else they have helped me with I really appreciate it!

Also a massive thank you to the businesses who have partnered with me for this season:

🟠PLAN B Hydraulics Ltd thank you to AJ for coming on board and helping out in a big way! Plan B are specialist with hydraulic issues from rebuilds to reseals and servicing the team can take care of all your hydraulic needs!

⚫️Bronto Laser NZ ltd thank you to Quinn and Monique for Laser cleaning quite a few parts for me to get everything looking as good as possible, if you have a classic car/hot rod or something you want cleaned up the laser is an awesome way to get old parts and things looking new again definitely worth checking out their page!

🟢Forestry maintenance ltd thank you to Al for coming on board and supplying our engine oil!

🔴Repco Hastings supplying our oil filters brakes parts and almost everything else we need!

🔵KRS engineering, to my bosses Adrian and Jayne thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for me, from all of the steel to hose’s and fittings, letting me use the workshop whenever I need and everything else I definitely couldn’t do it without your support!

🟣Now last but not least thank you to mum and dad, my sisters, my mates Josh, Jeremy and Bailey and anyone I may have missed for everything they have done to get the car to where it is now!

Now just a few more logos to add and some final checks and we will be ready to roll out for Meeanee’s first practice on the 10th, first time being on the other side so of the catch fence in about 5 years!

See you then, Zach

26/09/2026

Update on Zach’s car 🛠️

We have been busy in the shed slowly ticking things off the to do list. Not much left to finish off before first practice!

Last weekend we got the Body painted by my good mate Jeremy Browne massive thank you to him, pretty stocked with the colour can’t wait to see it finished off with stickers!

Stay tuned this week as I’ll be posting a few shout out’s to the business and people who have helped me get this far with the car

Along with the upcoming car reveal we also have a new number any guesses??

Cheers, Zach

16/09/2026

Update on the 4B Stockcar.

In between work and making cakes, the stockcar is all but ready!

Getting some new stickers added on Monday. All that’s left after that is doing a setup and bolt check ready for our first practice of the season!

Huge thank you to mum, dad, Jordy, Zach and all of my sponsors who have stayed on board and the new ones that have joined us!

29/08/2026

15/07/2026

Update on the 4B!

Jordy had done all the new steelwork for us a few weeks back so we could send it to be sand blaster! Thanks to Patton Blast and Paint!

He’s also painted the chassis so I could piece it back together! At this rate the car will be sitting on stands complete and waiting for our first practice!

No major updates for us this year, but we have a new diff with floating brakes about to go in!

Huge thank you to Jordy, Zach and dad for the help and big thank you to Graham Hughes for these wicked “Thank you” sponsor prints that are making their way out following new sponsorship proposals!

29/06/2026

First off season update

Thought it’s about time I put a post up, We have been pretty busy in the shed getting Zach’s car together the list is getting shorter now. All going well we should have it running and driving in the next 2 weeks then we can move on to the cosmetic side of things.

Massive thanks to Mum, Dad, Courtney, Jordan, Josh and Jeremy for their help getting it this far and also the sponsors who have already jumped on board to help me I really appreciate it

KRS 2003 Ltd
Bronto Laser NZ ltd
BJs Bakery

07/06/2026

Bit slack on giving an update from Gisborne on the 9th of May!

Blew a diff head in race 1 after having good pace resulting in a DNF.

Race two and three were not too bad, running a different diff ratio so not pushing it too hard but finished 2 out of three almost damage free!

The last couple of week saw the car get stripped and all new steel work done (again😅) big thanks to Jordy for sorting that out for me! So she’ll sit for a bit awaiting sandblast and paint!

We’ll have Thank You Sponsor prints handed out soon along with sponsorship proposals!

Huge thank you to everyone who sponsored or helped out this season! It is very much appreciated!

Forestry Maintenance
KRS
Bay Tyres
COF’s
0800 Auto Tint
www.pay2play.co.nz
Phoenix Contracting
Flushed Drainage
Ace Performance
BJ’s
Repco Hastings
Mum, Dad, Jordy, Brooke and Zach!

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