There is just a month until the cars take the track for the championship’s opening round but already, all of the lease cars held by Toyota Racing New Zealand have been committed and all but three of the new-build TR 86 race cars are sold.
 
In addition, the existing race cars used in the series have been changing hands as new and returning race drivers finalise their plans and sponsorship to contest the six-round, 18 race championship.
 
Category manager Geoff Short says demand is ‘through the roof’, driven in part by the success of the most recent championship.

The Carters Tyres SI Endurance Series invades Christchurch’s Mike Pero Motorsport Park at Ruapuna this Saturday with the top teams, drivers and cars in NZ Endurance racing ready to battle it out in the annual SIERDC 3 hour endurance race. At the Series opener at Teretonga Park on 10 September fans witnessed an exciting race that was run at an eye wateringly fast pace. Both the race and lap records were smashed, with the race winning Trass Family Motorsport Ferrari 458 GT3 of Richard Muscat & Sam Fillmore smashing the previous race record by an incredible 7 laps.

Kiwi Jono Lester will add the Asian Le Mans Series to his busy 2016 schedule, announced today as part of a three driver line up with OD Racing to take on the four round championship in a McLaren 650S GT3.

Lester will partner former A1GP star and F1 test driver Fairuz Gauzy of Malaysia, and rising Chinese star Zhang Da Sheng from the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia & China GT ranks, against a 16-strong GT3 class featuring world class lines ups from across Asia as well as Europe.

Earl Bamber and co-driver Kevin Estre have finished a dramatic second in the eight round of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nordschleife, Germany, over the weekend. Driving a Porsche 911 GT3 R of Manthey Racing, they crossed the line first with the narrow margin of 0.371 seconds against Uwe Alzen and Lance David Arnold in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Haribo Racing Team.