Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Legendary Kiwi racing driver & car builder Graham McRae delivering his driving master class at Wigram in 1972 in his then new Leda GM1 001.
The year 1972 will go down in the annals of New Zealand’s motor racing history as the year driver/engineer Graham McRae came of age – in a car – the garish fluro pink Leda LT27/GM1 – of his own design.
This weekend, at the 31st annual Skope Classic historic motor racing meeting in Christchurch, the legacy of this great Kiwi and the very same car will be brought back to life in the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series races by category young gun Michael Collins.
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 8:15 am
Legendary
Kiwi racing driver & car builder Graham McRae delivering
his driving master class at Wigram in 1972 in his then new
Leda GM1 001.
The year 1972 will go
down in the annals of New Zealand’s motor racing history
as the year driver/engineer Graham McRae came of age – in
a car – the garish fluro pink Leda LT27/GM1 – of his own
design.
This weekend, at the 31st annual Skope Classic
historic motor racing meeting in Christchurch, the legacy of
this great Kiwi and the very same car will be brought back
to life in the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival
Press Release – NZ Formula 5000 Assn
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 unforgettable ‘rolling thunder’ sound as 15 (at last count) of these incredible cars accelerate away from the rolling start and head off down the hill to the first corner en masse.
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 unforgettable ‘rolling thunder’ sound as 15 (at
last count) of these incredible cars accelerate away from