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Michael Young invited to compete in WRC with M-Sport

Last year's Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) Production Cup winner and overall APRC drivers championship runner-up, 22 year old Mike Young from Opotiki in New Zealand, has received an invitation to join the M-Sport run Drive DMACK Ford Fiesta Trophy in the World Rally Championship (WRC) in 2015.

Young says: "To say I'm excited is an understatement, and while we're totally committed to the APRC this year in a Cusco Subaru Impreza, the dates all work so we're scrambling now to see if we find the budget.”

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Thursday, 5 March, 2015

WOMEN IN MOTORSPORT PROMOTION

Sunday is the day for ladies to have a go at a fun, entry level motorsport activity.

The Eastern Southland Car Club is holding a "Have A Go Ladies Fun Day Grass Autocross" on Te Houka Road just south of Balclutha in a joint promotion with Motorsport New Zealand which gives the club a chance to offer entry at no charge.

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Thursday, 5 March, 2015

ADELAIDE POLE POSITION AND PODIUM FINISH MARRED BY HORROR CRASH FOR TFM FERRARI

Trass Family Motorsport, New Zealand’s Ferrari racing team, have experienced the full spectrum of motorsport’s jubilant highs and crushing lows at the season opening Australian GT Championship round, the Clipsal 500 Adelaide.

In only their second Australian GT event, TFM opened its 2015 account on the streets of Adelaide in the best possible fashion by comfortably topping the practice times in their Ferrari 458 Italia GT3, driven by Jono Lester.

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Thursday, 5 March, 2015

Quinn readies new 850 hp car for Repco Race to the Sky debut

Tony Quinn, the man behind Highlands Motorsport Park and the revival of New Zealand’s famed Race to the Sky hillclimb event, has commissioned the construction of a purpose-built 850 hp race car specifically to try and break the race’s eight minute barrier.

The Scottish businessman, who splits his time between Australia’s Gold Coast and New Zealand’s Central Otago, says he went to Queensland-based engineer Paul Ceprnich of Pace Innovations with the brief to build a car capable of a time of eight minutes or less on the 14.5 km Repco Race to the Sky course.

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Thursday, 5 March, 2015

Cassidy shows good form in first pre-season test

New Zealand’s latest Motorsport export, Nick Cassidy, has impressed at the first Japanese Official Pre Season test in his debut at Fuji Speedway.

The 20 year old 3-time NZ Grand Prix winner and former Toyota racing series alumni has applied skill’s learned from campaigning the competitive European F3 series in 2014 to setting the third fast time at the Fuji test session.

During the only officially timed session on Day 2, Cassidy locked in the official third fastest time of 1’34.506.

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Thursday, 5 March, 2015

PROCTOR HAS POINT TO PROVE ON TARGA RALLY SPRINT EVENT ON SUNDAY

High-profile Targa event regular - and this this time main sponsor - Clark Proctor reckons he has a point to prove at the Metalman Targa Rally Sprint at Ardmore in south-east Auckland on Sunday.

Proctor and co-driver Sue O'Neill topped the time sheets  in the Instra.com 2WD modern class early on in last year's 20th anniversary Targa South Island event in late October.

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Thursday, 5 March, 2015

Interest sky-high for Repco Race to the Sky as tickets go on sale

An overwhelming response from interested competitors for April’s Repco Race to the Sky has delighted the organising team at Highlands Motorsport Park headed by general manager Mike Sentch, who has just okayed the release of public ticket sales.

“It’s exciting to have so much interest from over 150 prospective competitors,” says Mr Sentch. “More than 80 competitors from across the car, quad, off-roader and motorcycle divisions have already paid the entry fee, and more arrive every day.

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Tuesday, 3 March, 2015

Paddon sharpens focus for Mexican WRC round

Hayden Paddon is maintaining his focus on learning and adapting as he and co-driver John Kennard face the challenging heat, altitude and long stages of their second WRC event of the year, Rally Guanajuato Mexico.

Drawing confidence from his career-best fifth place at Rally Sweden earlier in February, New Zealand’s top rally driver says he’s looking forward to being back on gravel, the surface with which he’s most familiar, in his regular #20 Hyundai i20 WRC car.

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Monday, 2 March, 2015

Coulthard second as Courtney tops in Adelaide

James Courtney is the king of Adelaide for the second year running, setting the early benchmark in the V8 Supercars Championship and taking the points lead.  Kiwi drivers also dominated with Fabian Coulthard now second in the overall points standings.

“We were affected a little bit at the start (of race 3)," commented Coulthard.   "We didn’t have the best tyres to start the race so I feel like that didn’t help us and a couple of guys got the jump on us."

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Monday, 2 March, 2015

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