Last weekend’s Tauranga Clubman’s Rally on 27th July was used as a shakedown event for the Taslo Engineering Mitsubishi Evo X. The Cox Motorsport team only finished preparations of the car the night before the rally, following a big rebuild. The main focus of the event was to test the car and for driver Sloan Cox to gain valuable seat time after missing a few rallies this year.
Sixteen year old Liam MacDonald of Invercargill has won the Southland Sports Car Club Championship for the second successive year. He received the SSCC Club Champion's Trophy at the clubs 2013/2014 prizegiving at Teretonga Park recently.
OSCC is pleased to announce the results of Custom Panels Speed Weekend 2014.
The event was contested over two of OSCC’s classic and popular hill-climb venues: one gravel (Whare Flat), and one sealed (Three Mile Hill). The events saw a wide variety of cars entered, and welcomed some new drivers.
The overall winner was current OSCC Speed champion, Craig Molloy in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, with second place going to former OSCC Speed Champion, Glen Frew, also in an Evo.
Testing and a wet/dry Qualifying
A front row start alongside my former V8 team mate John McIntyre
With horrible weather on Friday testing was distrupted often, but we made valuable gains with all three TFM drivers, Robin Gray - my 3 & 6 hour team mate, Team Principal Gerald Trass, and Reserve Driver Jason Friend. All three, and the TFM team as a whole, were all completely 'green' to motorsport before May.
Emma Gilmour had a rough ride at The Dirt Track in Charlotte, with mechanical issues hampering her Rhys Millen Racing Veloster Turbo’s performance most of the weekend.
She missed out on a place in the final but learned more about the car set-up.
“Despite our mechanical problems limiting our seat time I am enjoying the racing and getting more confident mixing it up with the guys each GRC round,” Emma says.
New Zealand’s leading rally drivers Hayden Paddon and John Kennard each have their own special reason to look forward to next week’s Neste Oil Rally Finland, the third of their FIA World Rally Championship events with Hyundai Motorsport.
For Paddon, the Finnish rally is the European WRC event with which he has the most experience – this will be his fifth time competing on the event famed for its blisteringly high speeds and heart-in-the-mouth jumps as competitors blast through the smooth gravel roads of the Jyväskylä region’s forests and lakes.
November’s Highlands 101 race meeting at Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell, Central Otago will feature a new Euromarque category as a key support class.
Having successfully developed and run the 101-lap endurance race format with its Le Mans-style running start for last November’s inaugural Highlands 101 meeting, Highlands Motorsport Park management also wanted to add their own stamp to the other categories which will race at the 2014 edition of this event taking place from 7 to 9 November.
Richie Stanaway has edged closer to GP3 Series points leader Alex Lynn, after the latest round held in Hungary over the weekend. The Kiwi driver set fastest lap in qualifying and went on to win race one. In the top 8 reverse grid start for race two, Stanaway finished sixth, gaining more points from the weekend. He now lies just 31 points behind Lynn with four rounds remaining in the 2014 championship.
Race 1
Earl Bamber has finished third at the sixth round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup in Budapest, Hungary. Championship leader Kuba Giermaziak took the victory with a light to flag victory, extending his lead in the series.
Second on the podium was Hockenheim winner Nicki Thiim of the Lechner team. FACH Auto Tech driver Earl Bamber was third and tightened his second rank in the driver standings of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup.
Craig Innes and Mark Maddren have taken out the final round of the Mahindra North Island Series at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park stealing victory late in in the six hour race and winning by two laps from their closest rivals Sam Fillmore and Danny Stutterd in the Motorsport Services Porsche 997 GT3. In the Mahindra Three hour race John De Veth and GT1 champion Glenn Smith took their first win in the series, whilst Ian Hayr took a dominant victory in the separate Mahindra One Hour race.
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