As the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia revs up ahead of its 12th season as the leading light in regional sportscar competition, the First Class international field from 10 countries and territories has been revealed, just prior to the official test at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit over the weekend.
Wellingtonian Jamie McNee extended his lead in the Toyota Finance 86 Championship with another race win and a podium in every race at Taupo’s Ricoh Motorsport Park this weekend. He is now 125 points clear of new second-place man Callum Quin.
Jason Bargwanna did it the hard way as he won the penultimate round of the New Zealand V8 Touring Car championship at Taupo today.
The former Bathurst winner started the weekend badly when he copped a drive-through penalty in yesterday’s race for hitting his main rival, Nick Ross from Cambridge. Ross won that race with the Aussie recovering to take second.
Another weekend of tough V8 powered racing ended with an exciting 20 lapper this afternoon at Taupo Motorsport Park where NZV8 Touring Car TLX driver Jason Bargwanna edged a little further ahead of main rival Nick Ross and James McLaughlin reclaimed his lead in the NZV8 TL Championship.
The competition was once again close in both categories with Ross taking the first win on Saturday after contact from Bargwanna saw the Australian slapped with a drive through penalty leaving Ross an unchallenged run to the flag.
The duel for the 2013/14 NZ Formula ford title has ended with Christchurch’s Michael Collins finishing runner up to Southland’s Jamie Conroy. The sixth and final round took place at Taupo Motorsport Park over the weekend with Collins finishing second to Conroy in all three races.
The two had competed all summer with Conroy winning 15/18 races and Collins second in the same number.
Jamie Conroy of Invercargill is the 2013/2014 New Zealand Formula Ford Champion. Twenty-two year old Conroy sealed the title when he won the second race of the final round at Taupo Motorsport Park on Sunday morning.
The judge became the judged in today’s New Zealand V8 Touring Car race at Taupo – and he was found guilty.
Australian Jason Bargwanna is now the driving standards observer for V8 Supercars, which means he is effectively the chief judge for that series and decides on penalties to be awarded to misbehaving drivers.
But today Bargwanna found himself on the receiving end of judicial proceedings, as he copped a drive-through penalty for knocking his main rival, Cambridge driver Nick Ross, off the track.
Throughout the season Hamilton's Bronson Porter has shown bursts of speed and talent which had yet to translate into a strong challenge for the NZV8 Touring Cars TL Championship until today.
Putting up an excellent race against top contender James McLaughlin from Lower Hutt, it was Porter who was the victor in the first race of this weekend's meeting at Taupo also moving up into fourth place in the TL class before the grand finale at Pukekohe next month where four races will bring much opportunity for the leading contenders.
Toyota Finance 86 Championship leader Jamie McNee sprinted from a start position of fifth to lead and win the first race for the TR 86 cars at Taupo today, adding a handy 75 points to his championship lead.
Ashley Blewett had started off pole with Tom Alexander alongside and the pair went side by side into the first corner with Andy Waite close behind.
McNee chased the leading bunch down and joined the fray, then when Waite was forced wide at turn one McNee went through to do battle for the lead.
Wellington driver Brock Cooley fired an early wanring shot across the bow of the top three drivers in the NZV8 Touring Cars TL Championship today in the first testing session at Taupo Motorsport Park.
Cooley who sits in fourth place in the championship was over a second faster than his closest rival,, Turua's Brad Lauder, at Taupo this morning set a time of 1:38.695.
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