Glen Reid has entered the new 2 hour clubman race and will be driving a 1982 Mazda RX7 Group C replica. “I’ll be driving a 1982 Mazda RX7 Group C replica. The car is new, I haven’t raced it yet however I have raced in 2K Cup for a couple of seasons. My background is rallying so I’m fairly new …
MEDIA RELEASE Faced with renewed and growing interest in Endurance racing in New Zealand, NIERDC have received a number of enquiries about eligibility of non-GT3 homologated race cars, for their 4 round North Island series. NIERDC’S President, David Dovey said, “Whilst its great that we have so much interest in this year 2021 North Island Series, this has raise some …
ROUND ONETaupo – Friday 16th – Saturday 17th April 2021 ROUND TWOPukekohe – Saturday 8th – Sunday 9th May 2021 ROUND THREEHampton Downs – Friday 28th – Saturday 29th May 2021 ROUND FOURManfeild/Pukekohe – Friday 18th – Saturday 19th June 2021 Want to enter? Click here to register and secure your spot! Please enter ASAP so we can organise trophies and categories. NEW TWO-HOUR RACE FOR CLUBMAN CARS The …
In 2021 North Island Endurance Series will be expanded to accommodate a new two-hour race for clubman cars. The two-hour endurance race will run on the same day as the existing one- and three-hour endurance races. However, it will instead be exclusive solely for cars whose best lap time at Hampton Downs and Pukekohe does not exceed 1m13.0s. President of …
We are back for another crack in the 3 hour series & to defend our title. The Porsche GT 3 Cup car #24 is rearing to go! During the off season we have had a engine rebuild by James Marshall Motorsport so we are hoping for a mechanically incident free series with good reliability Our sponsors are back on board …
Paul Verryt will swap his trusty Honda Integra DC 2 for a Holden Commodore VE TLX for the North Island Endurance Series in 2020 which has been recently campaigned in the BNT V8’s with Hamilton Motorsport. This is the car that V8 Supercars Stars Jack Smith and Andre Heimgartner both won the Class 1 BNT V8’s Championship in. In-fact Paul …
Glen Chappel and Shaun Varney will pair up for the North Island Endurance Series in both 1 &3Hour races after they drove together at the New Zealand Endurance Final in 2019. In the 1Hour race the pair will be using Shaun’s BMW E46 powered by a LS7 engine which has had gearbox and other development upgrades which will make this …
One of New Zealand’s best up and coming race car drivers Callum Hedge will return to the North Island Endurance in the 1Hour Race driving a Porsche 991 Gen1 which he used to win the South Island Porsche Series earlier this year. Callum Hedge has an outstanding CV with dominance, wining the NZ Formula Ford Championship at age 14 Callum …
DFM Racing will be back on the North Island Endurance Grid in 2020. The team used to race a modified Ford Falcon BF in the in the 3 hour endurance race which the car now owned by Darryl Clarke who competes it in the 1 hour endurance race. For the past two seasons however, DFM Racing have been side lined …
BNT V8’s race Lance Hughes will once again race his Holden Commodore VE TLX in the North Island Endurance Series. However, since his regular co-driver Andre Heimgartner is understandably unavailable due to Supercars commitments and Border restrictions Lance will instead turn his attention to the 1Hour race. It will be very interesting how Lance will go with the likes of …