Brock Gilchrist celebrates his Championship win - Picture Tayler Burke. Brock Gilchrist is the 2023 Toyota 86 Champion after high drama in the final race of the season at Hampton Downs. In a gripping conclusion to the championship Gilchrist was spun at .
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Burke
Rowan Shepherd has
won the 2021 Best Bars Toyota 86 Championship after a
mesmerising final race at the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park,
Taupo.
Shepherd needed to finish second
behind race winner Simon Evans and did exactly that, despite
Evans trying everything he could to force attacks from third
placed Brock Gilchrist and fourth placed Ronan Murphy to try
and push Shepherd back to where he wouldn’t have enough
points to beat Evans to the title.
Shepherd however,
held on in style and took the title by just five points -
his tally of 973 trumping Evans 968 after 15 hugely
competitive races.
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Tayler Burke
Two on-track
penalties totalling ten seconds were enough to relegate a
dominant Matthew Payne from first to second in Race 3 on
Sunday morning at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon – the
penultimate one in this year’s COVID-shortened
championship.
It meant Billy Frazer, who finished
second on the road, inherited the win. It was his first in
this year’s Castrol Toyota Racing Series.
Payne -
who had record pace in qualifying when setting his best laps
- pulled up to the start out of his grid box and incurred
the penalty immediately, meaning the first part of his race
Shane Van Gisbergen delivered the greatest performance in New Zealand Grand Prix history. Picture Tayler Burke
In extraordinary times, an extraordinary driver produced an extraordinary drive to win the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix and put his name alongside the sport’s greatest drivers.
Shane van Gisbergen left a sell-out crowd at Hampton Downs breathless after producing an historic performance that re-wrote the Castrol Toyota Racing Series and Grand Prix records.
After setting the fire extinguisher off in his car before the start, Shane missed the pit lane window to exit and was forced to start from the pit lane after his team completed a hasty cleaning out of his car, his overalls, his boots and a replacement fire extinguisher.
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 12:02 pm
Matthew Payne has tested FT50
and FT60 cars and is confirmed for the 2021
series
Matthew Payne will be one to watch when the
2021 Castrol Toyota Racing Series blasts into
action.
The Kiwi karting sensation has today
confirmed he will run in the three round championship which
kicks off with the 66th New Zealand Grand Prix at the
Hampton Downs International Circuit over the weekend of 23rd
and 24th January.
Only just turned 18 years old and
relatively inexperienced at this level, Matthew will be
taking a giant leap to compete against the best motorsport
talent New Zealand has to offer.