Sunday, 17 January 2021, 6:46 pm
Invercargill s
Cormac Buchanan (bike No.28), the leading rider in two
separate classes after racing near Timaru at the weekend.
Photo by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
The points tables do
nothing to indicate the closeness of racing in this season s
New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK).
The
competition kicked off at Christchurch just over a week ago,
while round two was staged at Levels International Raceways,
near Timaru, on Saturday and Sunday, and both weekends
featured ferociously-close racing in all the various bike
categories.
The four-round series reached the halfway
stage at the weekend, also winding up the South Island phase
Sunday, 17 January 2021, 4:57 pm
The Ford Legends Pavilion will be the focal point of next
weekend’s Taupō Historic GP for many spectators and Ford
motorsport fans.
20 historically-important and
interesting Fords will be based in the Pavilion on display,
with some being demonstrated between races and some also
racing.
And they include not only Ford racing and
rally cars, but also Ford-powered single-seaters including
the Shelby Family’s 1984 Ralt RT4/84 Formula
Atlantic.
The
Shelby Family Ralt RT4/84 Formula
Atlantic
Chassis No. 504,
this example of what was undeniably the dominant Formula
Atlantic of the 1980s, came from the workshops of British
racing car manufacturer, Ralt. It was raced on the West
Matt Smith Photography/Supplied
Tony Roberts in his McLaren during round one of the 2020/21 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series at Feilding in November 2020.
While the Taupō Historic GP this year celebrates Ford, a record number of cars bearing the name of New Zealand motor racing great Bruce McLaren will line up on the grid. The annual event at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, on January 23 and 24, is the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. Though best known for the F1 team which still bears his name, Auckland-born driver, car constructor and team owner, 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.
Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 8:40 pm
Timaru s
Harry Parker (Yamaha R3), hoping to turn his home track
advantage into valuable points this weekend. Photo by Andy
McGechan, BikesportNZ.com
It s one
down and three to go in this year s chase for motorcycle
road-racing honours and the action on tarmac is set to get
hotter as the series progresses.
The first round of
four in the 2021 New Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK)
was held at Mike Pero Motorsport park, Ruapuna, on the
outskirts of Christchurch, last weekend and several riders
surely have bragging rights after that early dust-up, but
it s early days yet and none can really take anything for
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.