Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Legendary Kiwi racing driver & car builder Graham McRae delivering his driving master class at Wigram in 1972 in his then new Leda GM1 001.
The year 1972 will go down in the annals of New Zealand’s motor racing history as the year driver/engineer Graham McRae came of age – in a car – the garish fluro pink Leda LT27/GM1 – of his own design.
This weekend, at the 31st annual Skope Classic historic motor racing meeting in Christchurch, the legacy of this great Kiwi and the very same car will be brought back to life in the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series races by category young gun Michael Collins.
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 8:15 am
Legendary
Kiwi racing driver & car builder Graham McRae delivering
his driving master class at Wigram in 1972 in his then new
Leda GM1 001.
The year 1972 will go
down in the annals of New Zealand’s motor racing history
as the year driver/engineer Graham McRae came of age – in
a car – the garish fluro pink Leda LT27/GM1 – of his own
design.
This weekend, at the 31st annual Skope Classic
historic motor racing meeting in Christchurch, the legacy of
this great Kiwi and the very same car will be brought back
to life in the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 7:15 pm
Copyright:
Geoff Ridder
Category young gun
Michael Collins (Leda GM1) made every move a winning one in
the feature Taupo Historic Grand Prix trophy race at the
second round of the 2020/21 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000
Tasman Cup Revival motor racing series at the lakeside
central North Island city’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park
today (Sunday Jan 24).
Behind the wheel of the
Alistair and Vicki Hey-owned ex Graham McRae/Dexter Dunlop
1972 Tasman Cup/US L&M series-winning Leda GM1, Collins,
25, set the fastest race lap - a 1:28. 532- on his way to
his second lights-to-flag victory at the fifth annual, this
Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Rnd 1 21 SAS MSC F5000 R1 Tim Rush 20 McLaren M22 Toby Annabell 9A McLaren M10B. Photo credit: Fast Company/Matt Smith Photography.
It seems entirely fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000
Tasman Cup Revival Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24) time, there will be a record number of cars bearing the name of the NZ motor racing great lined up on the grid.
Though best known for the F1 team which still proudly bears his name, before his untimely death in 1970 Auckland-born racing driver/car constructor/team owner Bruce McLaren also had a major hand in the design and testing of a line of early production McLaren Formula 5000 single-seaters, starting with the M10A, then M10B.
Monday, 11 January 2021, 6:13 pm
Rnd
1 21 SAS MSC F5000 R1 Tim Rush 20 McLaren M22 Toby Annabell
9A McLaren M10B. Photo credit: Fast Company/Matt Smith
Photography.
It seems entirely
fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS
Autoparts MSC NZ F5000
Tasman Cup Revival
Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time
celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport
Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24) time,
there will be a record number of cars bearing the name of
the NZ motor racing great lined up on the grid.
Though
best known for the F1 team which still proudly bears his