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However, six years ago Damon opted to step away from top-level racing with his focus largely switching to his role as Highlands Motorsport Park’s operations manager. The 28-year-old Damon has now decided to jump into a single-seater car again and compete at Hampton Downs this weekend, a track owned by Tony Quinn who also owns Highlands. With current travel restrictions ruling out international entrants, this year’s race has turned into an all-Kiwi affair, which includes the likes of Shane van Gisbergan, André Heimgartner, Greg Murphy, and Daniel Gaunt. Barry said he’s a proud fathe...

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 1:01 pm Sixteen of New Zealand’s top racing drivers are all set to race in the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix this weekend and there’s huge interest in what is being billed as an historic Race of Champions. Igor Fraga takes the Grand Prix chequered flag in 2020. Which Kiwi will win it this weekend and add their name to an illustrious list? Picture Bruce Jenkins With the pandemic travel restrictions accounting for the usual international entrants, it’s turned into an all-Kiwi affair. It is arguably the most interesting field in a New Zealand Grand Prix for a gene...

Friday, 22 January 2021, 7:47 am Angus Fogg, one of New Zealand’s most experienced racing drivers, isn’t letting this weekend’s clash of dates between the Taupō Historic GP and the New Zealand Grand Prix get in the way of his passion for driving historic racing cars. With help from the Historic GP organisers and some of his friends in the burgeoning Historic Sports Sedan and Allcomers (HSS&A) Association, Fogg will be helicoptering south from the Hampton Downs circuit after the first Central Muscle Cars race on Saturday morning to take in the HSS&A race at the Taupō Historic GP at Br...

Profiling the next-gen New Zealanders set to rule TRS this year Photos: TGR NZ / Brunce Jenkins The lack of available quarantining space for international drivers has meant this year’s Toyota Racing Series will have a grid of home talents. Some are already established talents, but others are new to the limelight Over the past 10 years, the Toyota Racing Series has emerged as the lead winter series for junior single-seater drivers across the globe. That international appeal has led to many future Formula 1 drivers taking to the championship through January and February – including series c...

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 7:41 am In their heyday in the 1970s the 5.0 litre stock block V8-powered Formula 5000 single-seater racing cars which contest New Zealand’s annual SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series were as quick as F1 cars. So most in the large crowd expected to descend on Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park this weekend for the Taupō Historic Grand Prix celebrating Ford meeting will know exactly what to expect, says NZ F5000 Association organising committee member Glenn Richards. “Speed, colour, excitement and action…..plus – of course – that un...