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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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Harker aims to blow Toyota 86 Championship open

February 11, 2017
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Albany driver Reid Harker is chipping away at the championship lead of CareVets driver Ryan Yardley, in the 2016-2017 Toyota…
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Cockerton top Kiwi in Toyota championship at Hampton Downs

January 29, 2017
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Cockerton top Kiwi in Toyota championship at Hampton Downs Pukekohe driver Taylor Cockerton is reflecting on a challenging weekend at…
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Two wins for Yardley at Teretonga

January 22, 2017
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Two race wins for CareVets driver Ryan Yardley – and one for his team-mate Jack Milligan – have handed the…
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Win extends championship lead for Yardley at Teretonga

January 21, 2017
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A fastest lap and a race win brings Toyota Finance 86 Championship leader Ryan Yardley closer to his goal at…
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Yardley hangs on to Toyota 86 Championship lead

January 15, 2017
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He has run hard against the toughest opposition all season, now at his home track Ryan Yardley has maintained his…
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Harker starts as he means to go on at Ruapuna

January 14, 2017
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Reid Harker has rebooted his championship aspirations with a win in the first race of round three of the Toyota…
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Marcus Armstrong selected for Ferrari Driver Academy

December 24, 2016
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Christchurch driver Marcus Armstrong has been named to join the elite Ferrari Driver Academy, a fast track programme that delivers…
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Harker battles to race two victory

November 6, 2016
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An elated Reid Harker has won race two of the 2016-2017 Toyota 86 Championship after twelve laps locked in battle…
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Blewett dominates crash-marred race one at Pukekohe

November 5, 2016
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Coatesville’s Ash Blewett has taken pole for the first race in an accident-marred qualifying session at the opening round of…
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Blewett once more in control with Toyota 86 Championship pole

November 4, 2016
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Coatesville’s Ash Blewett has taken pole for the first race in an accident-marred qualifying session at the opening round of…