My Story In Full | The story of Tony Christiansen"


Throughout Tony's life, he has taken on and succeeded at some huge feats. More detail on some of these below...

Race Car Champion

'Before I had the accident I could have done 10.000 things - been an All Black, played soccer at the World Cup, been a world-class cyclist or a downhill skier - but after the accident I could only do 8,000 of those things'

When Tony was twelve his Dad built him his first cart and many hours were spent down at the local go cart track racing his mates. Tony enjoyed motor sport because it put him on a level playing field with his competitors.

Tony moved into speedway, racing midgets in the open class. Tony did very well in this class and went on to win the championship.

Tony's next stint in motor-sport was in Pre 65 circuit racing. Pre 65 means the car and engine must be manufactured before 1965, Tony raced a Mark 3 Zephyr and an XP V8 Falcon.

From there Tony went back to speedway, racing sprint cars. Sprint car's are an extremely demanding car to race. They boast 700hp and you race on a tight circuit with 25 other Maniac's.

Other forms of motor-sport Tony has been involved in is as a swinger on a sidecar bike and a navigator in an Off Road Racing Truck.

If scaring him self on the race circuit wasn't enough, he now gets to scare passengers in a rally car. Tony's latest addition to his motor racing career is drag racing. Drag racing, going over a 160 MPH on a quarter of a mile drag strip. NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED