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Banks Takes Phillip Island Formula 5000 GP Title
Sunday, 10 March 2024, 8:45 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Auckland’s Codie Banks clean-swept the field of F5000 cars to secure the inaugural Phillip Island Formula 5000 GP title today, concluding the 2024 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. Contesting five races at the Southern Hemisphere’s ... More >>
Kiwi Codie Banks Dominates Trans-Tasman F5000 Racing
Sunday, 10 March 2024, 9:41 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Flying the New Zealand flag at the Phillip Island Classic-‘Festival of Motorsport’, Auckland’s Codie Banks led a Kiwi 1-2 at this afternoon’s second race for the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series. Banks (Lola T332 HU 16) has ... More >>
Ten Kiwis Add To Phillip Island F5000 Trans-Tasman Event
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Of the 21 Formula 5000 cars competing at Australia’s Phillip Island Classic this weekend (8-10 March 2024) will be ten from the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series. The fourth event on the 2023/24 calendar it is one of multiple ... More >>
Hey Wins F5000 Races, McLaren Awards The Trophies
Monday, 5 February 2024, 9:52 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Blenheim based 21-year-old Michael Hey won both of today’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series races held at Christchurch’s Euromarque Motorsport Park. Held as part of the annual SKOPE Classic weekend the two races ran in beautiful ... More >>
Dunedin’s Ross Wins First F5000 Race At SKOPE Weekend
Saturday, 3 February 2024, 7:18 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Saturday 3 February: The first of three races at the 2024 SKOPE Classic weekend at Christchurch’s Euromarque Motorsport Park was won by Steve Ross in the car originally campaigned by US based Quicksilver Racing. Contesting the third round of the 2023/2024 ... More >>
F5000s Race To The South Island For The Skope Classic This Weekend
Wednesday, 31 January 2024, 7:26 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
The thundering SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series touches down in Christchurch for this weekend (2-4 February) running of the Skope Classic at the Euromarque Motorsport Park. Two weeks on from their showing at the Historic GP at ... More >>
Historic GP title won by Steve Ross
Sunday, 21 January 2024, 8:00 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
It was the 50-year-old McRae GM-1 of Dunedin’s Steve Ross that triumphed at today’s Historic GP title – contested by the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series. The final of three races held at the Taupō International Motorsport Park, ... More >>
Rain Spoils F5000 Party At Taupō International Motorsport Park
Sunday, 21 January 2024, 7:10 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Today’s eight-lap race for the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series sat under a rain cloud, as the opening round of the 2024 season began at the Taupō International Motorsport Park. Just as the grid of 10 cars took to the circuit for ... More >>
Formula 5000 Winner To Claim 2024 Historic GP Title At Taupō
Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 7:43 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
A grid of 14 Formula 5000 cars will line-up at the Taupo International Motorsport Park to contest this weekend’s Historic GP title – being run Sunday afternoon 21 January. Photo: Jarod Carruthers. The return of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 ... More >>
Banks the victor following bruising F5000 racing at Manfeild
Monday, 13 November 2023, 12:21 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Sunday’s two races for the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series was far from plain sailing for the 10-strong field – except for Auckland’s David Banks, taking a win and a second. The first of four rounds on the 2023-2024 calendar, ... More >>
F5000 season opening race starts in style at Manfeild
Saturday, 11 November 2023, 8:00 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
It was a fighting finish at today’s opening race of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series, with the Talon MR1A of Grant Martin taking the chequered flag 0.6sec ahead of the Lola T332 of Kevin Ingram. The afternoon six-lap race opens ... More >>
Key Kiwi F5000 Drivers Have ‘Unfinished Business’ At Major Category Anniversary Meetings In The USA This Month
Friday, 4 August 2023, 6:19 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Two key members of the four-man SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival series squad set to travel this month to the USA to join compatriots from there, Australia and the UK in celebrating the 55th anniversary of the stock-block 5-litre V8 wings-and-slicks ... More >>
Talon Man Martin Claws His Way Back Into The Winner’s Circle At Hampton Downs’ Final
Saturday, 6 May 2023, 5:34 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
In February this year, storm damage to his Piha, Auckland property, forced popular Kiwi F5000 category pace setter Grant Martin (Talon MR1/A) to sit out the much-anticipated penultimate round of the 2022/23 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series ... More >>
51 Years On, Mcrae’s Original GM1 Finally Gets The Pukekohe Race Wins/lap Record Nod It So Richly Deserved
Sunday, 5 March 2023, 5:46 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
The Pukekohe motor racing circuit in general, and – in particular - the New Zealand Grand Prix meetings held at the storied South Auckland venue between 1970 & 1975 didn’t do late Kiwi racing great Graham McRae any favours…even when the ... More >>
Local F5000 Cars/drivers Sweep The Floor At Skope Classic Meeting In Christchurch Over The Weekend
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 10:11 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
They came, they saw, and at the 33rd Skope Classic motor racing meeting at Christchurch’s freshly re-named Euromarque (nee Mike Pero) Motorsport Park (Ruapuna) over the weekend, local driver Michael Collins (Leda GM1 001) and fellow Mainlander Steve Ross (McRae ... More >>
The Battle Of The F5000 Cars At Skope Will Be Between The North And South Island Cars
Friday, 3 February 2023, 6:04 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Following on from a very successful second 2022/23 series round at the Taupo Historic GP meeting at the recently refurbished and re-named Taupo International Motorsport Park a fortnight ago, this weekend a field of the classic stock block V8-powered ... More >>
NZ’s Quickest F5000 Cars Compete For Coveted Historic GP Title At Taupo On Sunday
Saturday, 21 January 2023, 7:21 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
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 ... More >>
NZ-based F5000 Motor Racing Series ‘Just Seems To Get Better With Age’
Wednesday, 9 November 2022, 6:53 pm | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Like a world-class New Zealand wine, the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series, which kicks off it’s 20th anniversary season at the big MG Classic motor racing meeting at Feilding’s Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon this weekend, just seems ... More >>
NZ F5000 Series In Pole Position At Last Big Meeting Before Pukekohe Circuit Closes For Good
Saturday, 30 July 2022, 5:17 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
When the news finally broke that New Zealand’s iconic Pukekohe Park Raceway would close in early 2023, rather than being upset by the decision, members of the organising committee of the New Zealand Formula 5000 Association could hardly believe their ... More >>
‘Rain Stops Play’ At NZ F5000 Series Final At Taupo On Sunday
Monday, 16 May 2022, 6:30 am | New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
In a rare case of ‘rain literally stopping play’ at a motor racing meeting here in New Zealand, the 2021/22 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series has ended up being called two races early after heavy rain on Saturday night and ... More >>
