Garage 5

23/09/2026

A beautiful car brightening up Christchurch G5 this morning
What’s happening today？👀 Zara Betman

15/09/2026

Tag us or drop your favourite MX-5 / Garage 5 cherry blossom photos in the comments below

Extra points for a ridiculously good MX-5 + sakura combo 🌸🌸🌸

14/09/2026

A weekend of grassroots motorsport! Saturday - First gymkhana for the new season with Sports Car Club of NZ, managed to come out with a win with the shop BRG, packing heat with some new parts on there. We’ll address those at a later point. But the car ran well, was a bit excited and missed a few braking points and only took out 1 cone for the day (I think 😂)

Managed to be fastest on 3/4 courses, Lishan De Silva and his very quick Mini kept the pressure on and forced a couple mistakes on the last run! Super fun time, at only $40 per event, would highly recommend everyone to have a go and brush up on your driving (and handbrake) skills.

Feel free to DM us if you’d like to get involved, always have time for a chat and point you in the right direction 😎

09/09/2026

Congrats to Finley McQuade on his dominant win of the MX5 Winter Series, it’s no easy competition racing in a one make series with veterans and some talented and fast drivers on the grid!

Looking forward to seeing you winning future championships in your racing career!

Your 2026 MX5RacingNZ Champion is Finley McQuade! 🏆

A flawless final round has completed one of the most dominant seasons we've seen, showing outstanding one lap pace, and the consistency of a champion.

7 wins out of 12, setting lap records, and producing some fantastic racing all year, he gets his first championship of many for the young lad.

He wins the title by 57 points over rookie Koby Gooch, who himself has had an outstanding rookie season, taking the title fight all the way to the final race, and leading the championship for a considerable time! Connor Cleland rounds out the championship podium, with another solid year in the #18 MX5.

A special shout-out to our sponsors for making this class possible:
Feilding Auto Electrical
Garage 5
Tremaine Energy Centre
Hel Performance NZ

Please join us in congratulating our newest champion, Finley McQuade 👏

07/09/2026

Autocross with Canterbury Car Club end of August, had a busy week so didn’t get a chance to write up results with the changes to the car! But here it is

With the changes made, the car felt more lively, quicker on acceleration, braking and change of direction through the tight chicanes, it felt like an MX5 again!

The day started off quite cold, we ran some older 225/45/15 NanKang AR1s, bit old, 2024 tyres, but they were on a street car so wouldn’t have seen too many heat cycles. First time running these on track, after hearing some great reviews on them.

The tyres came up to temp towards the end of the 1st run, because the number of drivers were a bit lower, we managed to go out without the tyres completely cooling off, the car felt more planted with the warmer tyres. Though i wonder if we were still outside of their optimal temps.

In my effort to find more time on the last run of course 1, I managed to smack a cone and gained a 5s penalty plus the slowing down to minimise damage. Car and cone was not harmed!

Course 2 it was a short course, and the tyre temps didn’t really come on, played around with tyre pressures and the rear wing between each run, to try and understand the aero side of things, but wasn’t able to find a heap of time to close the gap to the leaders, we weren’t losing too much to the rest of the pack either.

By the third course we decided to go out and have some fun, with the gap to 5th place pretty safe, we were able to take passenger rides and get the car fairly sideways through most of the course! That definitely scratched the drift itch, it was very fast on the AR1s.

We managed a 4th place for the day, decent, and we put some smiles on some passengers, there is still plenty of learning and development to go into this car, it will be a slow process but I’m looking forward to the learning!

Big thanks to the car club for putting on such an amazing event, the team in the Chch workshop for helping me get this thing ready, and of course Tania NGAGE Motorsport Photography for the sick photos!

Looking forward to the next and final tarmac event in October!

06/09/2026

Our second autocross done and dusted! Sun, great people and food! Thanks to everyone that came out and helped out.

Results, congrats to our top 3 winners from the day!

🥇Al - Porsche Boxster
🥈Bradley - NC MX5
🥉Mark - Porsche Cayman

A special thanks to Wholesale Meats Direct for providing us a yummy BBQ and drinks! Kept everyone fed and hydrated!

All our helpers Waikato Roadsters Tyler Rule and fire/first aid safety crew Megan and Peter!

And of course Sky for allowing us to hold these events!

We’ll see you all at the next one!

31/08/2026

Couple photos of the MX5s at Autocross on Sunday!

Thanks Tania from NGAGE Motorsport Photography for the great photos. Go across and give them a Like and Follow

31/08/2026

[ NA/NB Extended Lower Ball Joints ] BACK IN STOCK NOW !!!

These extended lower ball joints give you easy access to additional negative camber. Increases your available camber by -2 deg to -3 deg allowing a MX5 Miata with stock ride height to achieve -.5 deg to -3 deg of camber.

Pair these with our R Package tie rod ends for the ultimate handling upgrade

28/08/2026

Getting ready for CCC Autocross tomorrow
Big thanks to the team at Garage 5 Chch for sorting the car out for me.
We’ve done two events in this car now, found a few areas we could improve, with autocross events as the focus. A “light and nimble” approach, saving weight and agility for the tight courses.

Here’s what we did to achieve this

✅ 17” wheels down to 15” - saving 8kg per wheel
✅ 245 to 225 wide tyres - faster warm up allowing more grip quicker
✅ 5 stud hubs back to 4 stud hubs - saving a few kgs in brake setup
✅ Lowered ride height - allowing aero to work more effectively
✅ Cup car base line alignment - what we run on our cup cars as a base alignment spec
✅ Dixcel Z pads - works from cold to hot
✅ Corner weighted

25/08/2026

We have Wholesale Meats Direct coming to the party providing us with a BBQ and drinks for us on Saturday!
They’re even providing the cook!
Sign up now so you don’t miss out!!
Enter here
https://www.garage5.net/g5events/meremere-
autocross-sept-26