Wellington teenager, Regan Scoullar will line-up for a full season in the Summerset GT New Zealand Championship in November, when the season gets underway at Taupo.   Having clinched Class B and the overall NZ Porsche Championship earlier in the year in a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup car, Scoullar will step into a newer 991.2 car.   “Last season was a bit of a rollercoaster in all honesty. A mechanical failure in one round, and some accident damage while passing a lapped car in another round, but with the team overcoming that we collectively won the Porsche NZ Motorsport Championship, which ..read more

A host of new GT machines will headline the Summerset GT New Zealand Championship when racing gets underway at Taupo in November.   The all-new Porsche 992 Cup Car will make its debut this coming season – with the new generation Porsche racers being eligible for the Open Class.   Up to four 992’s will line up for round one of the championship at Taupo next month. Rick Armstrong returns to the championship in one of the new machines. Matt Whittaker will line up in another, having already had success in the South Island Endurance Series last month.   Sam Fillmore will race his ne ..read more

18-year-old Ayrton Hodson will campaign a Porsche 991.1 in the upcoming season of the Summerset GT New Zealand Championship which gets underway at Taupo in November.   The Project Manager from Katikati in the Bay of Plenty, is stepping up from a season in the Toyota 86 Championship, and transitioning into GT racing, having already completed some running in the South Island Endurance Series, and with some testing under his belt, he is happy with his progress so far.   “The transition has been really good, we did a lot more testing before racing came around compared to the Toyota 86 ..read more

Double-checking the 2023 results for the five-round TradeZone GTRNZ has confirmed the five title winners – filled by four drivers.   Heading into the final round at Hampton Downs 5-7 May nothing was decided and the GT4-GT2 groups had multiple drivers in reach of the lead. Even the lead by Waiuku’s Kerry Jones (Corvette TraNZam) in GT1 and overall was catchable.   It took the full three races and a lot of reconciling to confirm the eventual winners – one for each GT1-GT4 with the overall falling into the hands of Jones.   In GT4 it was 68 points that separated first from second ..read more

There will now be seven action-packed rounds on the 2023/24 Super Sprint MotorSport NZ Championship calendar – including two in the South Island.   The season opening Round 1 moves to the new date of 17 November 2023, at the Taupo International Motorsport Park. This avoids conflicting with the final round of Supercars and our broadcast audience lost between Sky TV and Fox Sport.   Action will then resume from 19 January 2024 at Taupo. A new addition to Super Sprint will be hosting the NZ Historic Grand Prix in conjunction with Taupo International Motorsport Park. It will also be the ..read more

At the season finale at Hampton Downs, a new king was crowned as Brad Kroef won the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes championship. His father Greg Kroef was a close second just 15 points behind. Third place however was a hard-fought battle, with Jake Stoneman  just edging Phill Ross – and Sunday’s races proved to be the decider. Yet for the champion Brad Kroef, the weekend’s racing didn’t all go according to the script; his crew having to eeplace a brake hose then an oil cooler to keep the car on the track. So Brad’s win was undeniably a team effort. It all began with Race Two on Sunday morning; a reve ..read more

It was a bruising and nail-biting conclusion to the Super Sprint MotorSport New Zealand Championship season – with Matakana’s Brock Gilchrist squeaking through to championship victory.   A total of seven categories contested the final event for the Super Sprint series – with six crowning season winners at the northern Waikato location of Hampton Downs 5-7 May.   Wrapping up the six-round Toyota 86 Championship it came down to the final race to secure 19-year-old Gilchrist’s title. Having taken the lead at the season’s opening round, the accumulation of points took a big hit on the f ..read more

Rex Edwards of Tauranga won the opening race of the final round of the Nexen Tyre NZ Mazda Racing Series National Championship at Hampton Downs International Motorsport Park in North Waikato today but it was Wellington driver Simon Baker who made a major step towards taking out the national title. Edwards, the leader of the North Island Championship, began the day by taking the $500 Premier Insulation Pole Award with a best lap in qualifying of 1.14.601. It was close at the top of the timesheets though with Sam Dashfield of Auckland just .137 of a second behind. Defending National and North I ..read more

Today’s first of three races for the 2023 Super Sprint MotorSport New Zealand Championship finale has seen Feilding’s Justin Allen take the win in the Toyota 86 category.   In a lights-to-flag result having set fastest time in this morning’s qualifying it was a bruising race – one of eight held today. The continuation of drizzly weather affected some classes more than others – the late afternoon Toyota race being one that enjoyed drier conditions.   Championship leader Brock Gilchrist, who started the day with a 76 point buffer for the title lead, lost some ground. Finishing in four ..read more

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