Taupo to host more racing
Taupo’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport track is the place this weekend with the start of the ENEOS North Island Endurance series.
There are some interesting entries already lined up for the event this Saturday.
‘‘There’s entries coming in by the day and we still know of a few very significant ones, so it really is shaping up nicely with ten days still to go,’’ series chairman, Kel McBeth, said.
Reigning three hour champion Sam Filimore will have Daniel Gaunt alongside him for the first round of the series in the TFM Ferrari 458 GT3, while Glenn Smith and John De Veth are back out in the Reiter Engineering built Camaro GT3.
Gaunt last drove in the Supercars Championship in 2013 in the Nissan Motorsport Altima alongside Michael Caruso.
Former Supercar driver Andre Heimgartmer will be back out with Lance Hughes in his heavily modified and very quick NZ Touring Car Series TLX Holden V8 Commodore.
Audi R8s will be the major challengers and perhaps the cars to beat, with International motorsport’s version confirmed and the entry expected from new NZ Endurance champions Simon Evans and Gene Rollinson in the SMEG Racing Racer Products example.
The one hour race is also shaping up nicely with cars from Ferrari, Porsche, Panoz, Holden, Ford, Honda, Seat, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Toyota, BMW and Ssangyong all confirmed.
Qualifying for the one and three hour races start at 10am and 10:25am while the one hour race takes off at 11:15am and the three hour race starts at 1:30pm.