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
Monday, 11 January 2021, 5:56 am
Whakatane s
Mitch Rees (Honda CBR1000), leading rider in the premier
Superbike class after racing in Christchurch at the weekend.
Photo by Andy McGechan,
BikesportNZ.com
It was a typical
summer scorcher in Canterbury at the weekend as the 2021 New
Zealand Superbike Championships (NZSBK) got underway in
thrilling fashion.
The four-round series kicked off at
Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Ruapuna, on the outskirts of
Christchurch, and the two-day Underground Brown-sponsored
affair produced some of the closest and most thrilling race
action that had possibly even been witnessed on the twisty
3.4-kilometre race circuit.
Lap records fell
constantly – and unfortunately so too did some of the
Now, the racers head to Whanganui for the final throw of the dice. Every season the safety barriers are put up alongside Whanganui s world-renowned motorcycle street fight , with straw bales positioned and spectator fencing laid out along the gutters of the city s public streets. Starting in 1951, the Cemetery Circuit event is likely to be another scorcher this Boxing Day, for the sun beating down and of bike riders trying to beat each other to the chequered flag. Leading riders expected to challenge for the top honours include Taupō s two-time former series champion and current national superbike No 2 Scott Moir, Glen Eden s former national 600cc and superbike champion Daniel Mettam, Wellington s two-time former national superbike champion Sloan Frost, Whanganui firebrand Jayden Carrick, Auckland s Dave Sharp, powerhouse Whakatane brothers Mitch and Damon Rees, Whanganui s multi-talented Richie Dibben and Te Awamutu s Dave Hall.
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 4:18 pm
Thanks to an Auckland historic racing car collector, two
of the rarest and arguably wildest examples of Ford of
Europe’s forays into touring car racing will be on display
at next months’ Taupō Historic GP.
Ford fans will
be treated to a rare demonstration and display of one of
only five Group 5 1977 Escorts ever built by famous German
race team, Zakspeed and also of Zakspeed’s ultimate Ford,
the only 1981 chassis Group 5 Capri.
The 1981 Group 5
Zakspeed Capri
The subject of a painstaking
seven-year restoration at the Zakspeed factory in
Niederzissen, Germany the Capri Turbo was built for the Ford
Press Release – Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park
Thanks to an Auckland historic racing car collector, two of the rarest and arguably wildest examples of Ford of Europe’s forays into touring car racing will be on display at next months’ Taupō Historic GP.
Ford fans will be treated to a rare demonstration and display of one of only five Group 5 1977 Escorts ever built by famous German race team, Zakspeed and also of Zakspeed’s ultimate Ford, the only 1981 chassis Group 5 Capri.
The 1981 Group 5 Zakspeed Capri
The subject of a painstaking seven-year restoration at the Zakspeed factory in Niederzissen, Germany the Capri Turbo was built for the Ford of Europe-backed assault on the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM), the forerunner of the modern DTM. Opened-up to the fearsome new turbocharged Group 5 silhouette racers in 1977, the DRM was too good an opportunity for Ford to miss taking on arch-rivals, BMW and Porsche on home ground.