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Champion Matthew Payne with the Denny Hulme Memorial Trophy. Picture Bruce Jenkins In the process he added his name to an impressive list of former TRS champions. An impressive 25% of the current F1 field are TRS graduates and the FIA F2 and F3 championships are also bristling with racers who’ve competed and won in TRS. Matthew Payne could well be another significant graduate and champion in years to come based on his dominance in 2021. Payne has won five TRS races since Shane van Gisbergen’s famous New Zealand Grand Prix victory at Hampton Downs and is the most dominant champion in several ....
Picture 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 ....
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 4:12 pm Payne had a comfortable lead early on and never looked back. Starting from the front with a time that would have put him on pole for the hotly-contested NZ Grand Prix at the challenging and fast Circuit Chris Amon in 2020, Payne made a clean getaway and was quickly into his stride. He had established a lead of two seconds within the first four laps and then pushed that out to over four seconds at the halfway mark. A drive without any mistakes left nothing in terms of opportunity for lonely second-placed racer Kaleb Ngatoa. Payne took the race s ....
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 2:08 pm The 2021 Castrol Toyota Series will be remembered as being unique in the COVID-19 world, but it has also seen the emergence of a major new Kiwi racing talent in Matthew Payne. Against a field of established stars at the New Zealand Grand Prix, Payne made his mark with a trifecta of third place finishes. He went even better the following weekend with two race wins from the two races securing the Dorothy Smith Memorial Cup in the feature race. Matthew Payne leads the TRS title chase with four races left. Picture Bruce Jenkins It’s that startling form that sees the ....
Matthew Payne topped qualifying at Hampton Downs for the second TRS round. Picture Bruce Jenkins The seven remaining cars in the championship were covered by just seven tenths of a second – ensuring both of the races on Saturday are likely to be closely fought affairs. With just fifteen minutes available to clock a fast time and with only a few tenths separating the seven drivers in Friday practice, it was all to play for in the morning qualifying session on Hampton Downs’ national circuit. It was Conrad Clark who was into his stride earliest and he topped the timesheets for the first few minutes ahead of Kaleb Ngatoa. ....