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 …
Two-time Class 2 Champion Graeme Fraser is back to try and win the Class 2 trophy for a third time Former Rally Driver and competitor in the BMW Race Driver Series Graeme first won Class 2 in the 2015 driving a white BMW M3 E36 he then purchased a Orange BMW E36 M3 which he won Class 2 again in …
Bob Sievwright will compete in this year’s Golden Holmes North Island Endurance Series in the 1Hour race. Although Bob’s Red BMW E46 3 Litre Turbo which will race in Class 1 may be new to the series this won’t be Bob’s first appearance in the Series, as he made a one, off appearance in 2018 with Kent Baigent driving a …
The North Shore’s fastest schoolteacher, Steff Chambers will step up to the Golden Holmes North Island Endurance Series in 2020. Steff took up racing in a Porsche 944 in 2016 starting off in the European Racing Classic’s before jumping in with the big boys in the Pirelli Porsche Championship. After campaigning the 944 for three seasons racing all around the …
Series sponsor Shane Helms has confirmed that he will contest this year Golden Holmes North Island Endurance Series in the 3 hour driving his Audi TT VLN. Shane raced a E30 M3 for a long time in endurance racing before purchasing an Audi TT VLN 2.5L Turbo which he and normal co-driver Rob Bolland pull off a massive underdog result …
We recently caught up by phone with well know racer David Dovey, and head of the North Island Endurance Race Drivers Club, and asked him to share the clubs thoughts on where to from now, given the major impact Covid-19 has had on the Club Endurance Racing Series and its many loyal competitors. VNews: So David what brought about the …