Concept Motorsport are proud to announce the arrival of the first ever Nissan Altima TLX race car into the NZV8 Touring Cars Championship.
In celebration of Nick Ross piloting the Nissan in the up coming season of 2014-15, Concept Motorsport will exhibit the soon to be completed Altima in the NZV8 Touring Cars pit area at the final round of the series held at Pukekohe Park Raceway over ANZAC weekend 25-27th April.
Kiwi grabs chance at GP3 drive two years after crash
Richie Stanaway showed good pace in GP3 testing at Jerez, Spain, over the weekend. The Kiwi was sixth in only his second outing in a single-seater since 2012.
Two weeks ago Stanaway was sitting at home in England looking forward to the opening round of the World Endurance Championship at Silverstone this weekend as an Aston Martin works driver. The phone rang and he was quickly racing down a motorway to catch a plane heading to Estoril, Portugal, for the first test weekend of the GP3 season.
Tauranga’s Phil Campbell has made an impressive debut in The Roofing Store Mitsubishi Evo 9 at the opening round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship driven by VINZ over the weekend, where only a mechanical problem robbed him over an almost certain podium finish.
Campbell came into the event realistic in his expectations for a result in a new car, especially one down on power against his rivals, with a plan just to drive down the middle of the road and learn more by completing mileage.
RCK Contractors Rally Team driver Clint Cunningham’s hopes of a reliable start to the season were unfortunately dashed at the opening round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship driven by VINZ, Rally Whangarei, held over the weekend.
The team spent the off season fully rebuilding the car in the hopes of ending a horrific run of DNF’s from 2013 and on the opening stage Cunningham and co-driver Greg Ruka were able to set the 12th fastest time, mixing it with some far more modern machinery than their older RCK Contractors Mitsubishi Evo 4.
Kaiapoi’s Marcus van Klink has made the perfect start to his 2014 Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship driven by VINZ campaign after scoring a full haul of points at the opening round, Rally Whangarei, over the weekend.
After a season dogged by mechanical problems last year, a full rebuild over the off-season saw van Klink and co-driver Dave Neill confident of a strong result and after three stage wins from three prior to service, the pair had opened up a lead of 50 seconds in the Historic category.
Ministry of Dirt driver Patrick Malley and his team have just fallen shy in a race against time to get to the start line of the opening round of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship driven by VINZ.
Malley had planned to debut his new Peugeot 208 'Proto' at the VINZ International Rally of Whangarei, but a tight time frame in getting the car from Poland was always going to make things tough.
Two extremes in motorsport will be in action at Highlands Motorsport Park near Cromwell this Easter in the first-ever Festival of Speed.
At one end of the scale will be the Michael Schumacher Formula One Benetton Cosworth Grand Prix car and at the other will be a huge Freightliner racing truck that has the performance of a V8 Supercar.
Rally Whangarei gave a mixed bag of results for the Cox Motorsport Team. The opening stage started off great with Cox recording the second fastest stage time by only 0.4 seconds to Mason.
Stage two saw this all change with the Taslo Engineering Mitsubishi Evo X leaving the road, resulting in the team having to temporarily withdraw. A great effort from the service crew to straighten the rear end of the car, saw Cox and Coatsworth rejoin for the afternoon stages. Cox then recorded top stages times giving the team great confidence going into day two.
A broken electrical wire almost cost Christchurch driver Hamish Anderson a successful start to the defense of his two-wheel-drive New Zealand rally title last weekend, but a makeshift effort got the car to the finish line and he scored maximum points in the process.
Team MRF’s reigning Asia-Pacific Rally Champion, Gaurav Gill, has won the first round of the 2014 series, New Zealand’s Rally of Whangarei, leading home his team-mate, Jan Kopecky, but just 11.9 seconds.
Driving the Team MRF Skoda Fabia S2000, the 32-year old Indian, with Australian co-driver Glenn Macneall, was 23 seconds from the lead after the opening day, but a determined fight-back on day two gave him victory.
“We’ve come close to winning here before but every year we’ve had some issue, either technical or mechanical,” said Gill, who was runner-up in 2013.
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