Clay Pohio Racing

2026–27 Season Calendar! 🏁

Lock in these dates and get ready for another epic summer of speedway at Ruapuna!

From Opening Night through to the Gold Cup, we've got a packed calendar full of action you won't want to miss.

📅 Save the date, it all starts October 31st!

*Subject to change

Couple shots from the June Christchurch Grass Kart Club meeting, shoutout to Dad behind the lens

Saturday night we had 25/26 Ruapuna Speedway awards.

We ended up taking home the Lightning sprint rookie of the year trophy and also the Canterbury Champs trophy.

Massive thanks to my family, supporters and sponsors for all their help throughout the season, couldn’t have achieved anything without them.

- Southway Transport Ltd
- SmartGrass
- Powerplus Electrical & Air Conditioning
- C & R Developments
- Southern Cutting Technology
- Premier Powder Coating
- Louvre Solutions NZ Ltd
- DNL NZ
- Topp Engineering
- Paul & Tina Brougham

That’s the 25/26 speedway season all wrapped up, stoked to cap the rookie season off with a feature win at Ellesmere.

Didn’t really know what to expect coming into speedway, wanted to learn as much as I could, be at the front and bring home a straight car every meet, which we ticked all those boxes. Highlight for sure was my second race meeting getting the feature win for the Canterbury champs. Unfortunately had a few nights where the car let us down and a DQ, I guess thats racing.

Massive thank you to all the people that helped out, couldn’t have done it without them. Firstly, mum and dad for putting up with me and all the help and support. Allan Chapman for all the advice and car setup tips, really enjoyed studying and learning the setup side of it all, and his help was key. Also everyone that helped on the Car, Moose, Jackson, Andrew, Paul, and Quinton, much appreciated. Shoutout to Lightning Sprint guys for the great racing all season. Big thanks to Dan and Tony for letting me borrow their trailers.

This would all not be possible with the amazing sponsors and supporters that have jumped on board, can’t thank them enough for their help. Ready to put some work into the car for the offseason and excited to come out swinging next season.

- Southway Transport Ltd
- SmartGrass NZ
- Powerplus Electrical & Air Conditioning
- C & R Developments
- Southern Cutting Technology
- Premier Powder Coating
- Louvre Solutions NZ Ltd
- DNL NZ
- Topp Engineering
- Paul & Tina Brougham

Ellesmere Recap

Heat 1 - started off grid 1 and led the first half of the race before having to pull in with an oil leak.

Heat 2 - started off grid 6 and shuffled our way into 3rd place, then after a caution took advantage of the restart and moved into 2nd.

Feature - started off grid 4, moved into p3 out of the first corner and hit the bottom not bad and led to the checkers. Made some good changes with the car which made it a lot easier.

Final race for the season out at Ellesmere speedway, should be a good day.

Last night at Ruapuna Speedway for the season.

It was Best Pairs night for the Lightning Sprints, and luckily I got paired with Connie Mckay. We managed to pull off the win, which was a great way to end the season at Ruapuna.

Heat 1 – Started 6th behind Connie and shaked and baked our way forward and i ended up 4th. It was a good to feel out the new car and get an idea of where we needed to make adjustments.

Heat 2 – Started 6th again and had a pretty similar run, working our way up to 4th.

Feature – Started 6th again and moved into 4th on the first lap. Then went to battle with Shawn, which was a wicked fun battle. Managed to get the top working not too bad and was side by side with Connie on the white flag, but ran it in a bit too hot into Turn 1 and finished 3rd. That was enough to secure the Best Pairs win, which was pretty sweet, our team manager Roger was happy. Congrats to Cooper on the win.

The track was the best I’ve ever raced on, massive shoutout to the Ruapuna track crew. Also thanks to everyone else at Ruapuna who helps make the show run.

Big thanks to Dad, Jackson, Moose, Harry, and Paul for all their help in the pits. We kept adjusting the new car and made it better and better as the night went on

Massive thanks to my supporters, it was awesome having a few of you out there:

- SmartGrass NZ
- Southway Transport Ltd
- Powerplus Electrical & Air Conditioning
- C & R Developments
- Southern cutting Technology
- Premier Powder Coating
- Louvre Solutions NZ Ltd
- DNL NZ
- Topp Engineering
- Paul & Tina Brougham

All set for the final Ruapuna Speedway race of the year. Pumped to be jumping in a new car, looking forward to see what its got

- Racing starts at 5:30

- Tune into the livestream on RJPTV

Massive thanks to my supporters:

- SmartGrass NZ
- Southway Transport Ltd
- Powerplus Electrical & Air Conditioning
- C & R Developments
- Louvre Solutions NZ Ltd
- Premier Powder Coating
- DNL NZ
- Topp Engineering
- Paul & Tina Brougham

Final race at Ruapuna for the season

2026 NZ Grass Kart Champs all wrapped up, Happy to come away with 1NZ in the 450cc class.

It was pretty fun to jump back in the kart and racing amongst a talented field and to go down to the wire with some of the best. Going into the Sunday there was only 2 points separating me Ben and Simon, so to pull off 2 wins on the Sunday was pretty sweet.

Massive shoutout to the Ashburton Family Go Kart Club for putting a wicked event on, they did a great job with the conditions we got delt, Huge shoutout to the marshals, scrutineers, organizers, and every volunteer who gave up their time to make it happen

Congrats to Ben and Simon on the podium, had an awesome time battling with everyone out there and even better talking crap with everyone in the pits

The kart was hooked up all weekend thanks to the time and effort Dad puts in. Couldn’t do it without him.

Finally, a massive thank you to my sponsors for all the support.
- SmartGrass
- Southway Transport Ltd
- Powerplus Electrical & Air Conditioning
- C & R Developments
- Premier Powder Coating
- Louvre Solutions NZ Ltd
- Southern Cutting Technology
- Paul & Tina Brougham
- DNL NZ