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Mark Baker has been working in automotive PR and communications for more than two decades. For much longer than that he has been a motorsport journalist, photographer and competitor, witness to most of the most exciting and significant motorsport trends and events of the mid-late 20th Century. His earliest memories of motorsport were trips to races at Ohakea in the early 1960s, and later of annual summer pilgrimages to watch Shellsport racers and Mini 7s at Bay Park and winter sorties into forests around Kawerau and Rotorua to see the likes of Russell Brookes, Ari Vatanen and Mike Marshall ply their trade in group 4 Escorts. Together with Murray Taylor and TV producer/director Dave Hedge he has been responsible for helping to build New Zealand’s unique Toyota Racing Series into a globally recognized event brand under category managers Barrie and Louise Thomlinson. Now working for a variety of automotive and mainstream commercial clients, Mark has a unique perspective on recent motor racing history and the future career paths of our best and brightest young racers.

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Preston gives new car first championship win at Kurow

September 19, 2018
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Otago ‘local’ Donald Preston (pictured) hammered his big Porter Chev two-seater V8 race car to a well-earned victory in Sunday’s…
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Fifty years of unlikely passion – Singapore Grand Prix

September 14, 2018
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Singapore. An island nation, jammed edge to edge with a bewildering variety of cultures. Undisputed financial hub of southeast Asia….
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Zak Brown casts shade on Bruce’s legacy

September 13, 2018
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This weekend in Singapore marks the return of the proper down-force battle in Formula 1 after the low-drag challenges of…
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Big jumps, high speed track to test championship offroad racers

September 11, 2018
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An all-new track faces the fastest drivers in New Zealand offroad racing when they arrive in Kurow for a last…
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Kiwi connections to the fore in F1

September 4, 2018
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Another two degrees of Kiwi connectedness with F1 as news drops today that Lando Norris is to step up and…
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Is this guy the best champion New Zealand has never heard of?

August 31, 2018
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Keizoku wa chikara nari – Persistence brings reward Followers of Talk Motorsport are a breed above. They (we) know who…
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Offroad racer Uttridge scores unique championship double at Feilding

August 20, 2018
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Historic result Christchurch driver Bob Uttridge has scored the Dual Crown of offroad racing, – winning both the GT Radial…
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Battle of the Billionaires – who has the most money?

August 11, 2018
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As the dust settles over the ‘forced’ sale of Vijay Mallya’s pink Formula One team, some of the machinations behind…
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Clash of codes: Raana Horan’s choice!

August 6, 2018
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It’s hard to imagine what this guy might have achieved if he’d discovered rallying ten years ago. Raana Horan rocked…
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Dan dared to dream, but Marko ‘ticktum’ off

July 27, 2018
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If anyone steps into Brendon Hartley’s seat at the end of this season, it will not be British hotshoe and…