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
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
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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