Jim McKeown, Aus – Jim McKeown competed in the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) from 1964 to 1972. He was part of the Shell Racing Team when he finished 2nd in the 1970 ATCC and 4th in 1971 when driving a Porsche 911S. He drove...
Howden Ganley, originally from Hamilton, New Zealand, first raced at Le Mans in 1972. Together with Francois Cevert, Howden finished 2nd in 1972 in a Matra-Simca MS670 V12 3.0 Litre. In 1973 he raced again at Le Mans, this time with Derek Bell in one...
Greg Murphy was born on 23 August 1972 in Hastings, New Zealand. At the young age of 8, he started racing go-karts. When aged 18 he participated in, and won, the 1990 Formula Ford Shell Scholarship that in turn provided him with a full season...
2015 - Earl Bamber – Porsche ‘works’ driver Earl Bamber was born in Wanganui, New Zealand on 9th July 1990. He won his first title in Karting in 2002, when aged 12, and in 2004 he took his first National title. Having dominated the Rotax Junior...
The inaugural International Race of Champions (IROC 1) was held at two tracks in USA in 1973/74. The first three races were held on 27th and 28th October 1973 at Riverside International Raceway in California and the final race was held on 14th February 1974...
It was only some 5 weeks since his McLaren Formula One team leader, Bruce McLaren, had been killed when testing a McLaren M8D Can-Am car at Goodwood, and only some 6 weeks after he sustained very bad burns to his hands while testing a McLaren...
Denny Hulme was entered as a driver for the Salzburg Porsche ‘semi-works’ team for the BOAC 1000 race held at the short and twisty 2.65 mile Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, UK, on 12th April 1970. This event was the third round of the 1970...
Craig Baird – Adelaide March 2012 – photo via Craig Baird Craig Baird was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 22 July 1970. In 1974 he began racing Go Karts aged 4 years old and went on to become a seven-time NZ Kart champion, and a...
The penultimate year of the Lady Wigram Trophy race meeting at RNZAF Base Wigram in Christchurch, NZ, was held on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th January 1993. In the race card line-up for the meeting was a class for ’TraNZam’ cars and one of these...
The Shell Oil Competition Department in England arranged for Bruce McLaren to drive a 1967 Porsche 910, chassis 28, in the BOAC International 500 mile race held at Brands Hatch on 30th July 1967. The race was Round 5 of the International Manufacturers Championship for...
The Porsche Club of New Zealand (PCNZ) formed in 1975 and in 1987 the Club struck up what proved to be a longstanding sponsorship relationship with Bridgestone NZ. The Japanese based Bridgestone company was an approved supplier of tyres to Porsche of Germany, having produced...
2015 Brendon Hartley – Porsche ‘works’ driver Brendon Hartley was born on 10th November 1989 and grew up in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Following in the tracks of his elder brother, Nelson, and with encouragement from his father Bryan, who had raced in a variety...