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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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Blewett dominates testing at Manfeild race weekend

February 12, 2016
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Aucklander Ash Blewett began the weekend as he means to continue, dominating the first test session of the day and…
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Blewett fastest in Toyota Finance 86 Championship practice

January 22, 2016
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Aucklander Ash Blewett continues his dominant form in the fourth round of the 2015-2016 Toyota Finance 86 Championship, fastest in…
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Blewett keeps his hold on Toyota championship

January 19, 2016
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Auckland racer Ash Blewett’s charge toward the 2015-2016 Toyota Finance 86 championship title continued almost unchecked in the third round,…
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Michael Scott wins first TR86 race at Ruapuna

January 16, 2016
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An ecstatic Michael Scott is celebrating his first race win of the 2015-2016 Toyota Finance 86 Championship after grabbing the…
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Jacob Smith heads south with rookie lead in Toyota championship

January 6, 2016
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Auckland student Jacob Smith heads for Christchurch next week as the top ‘rookie’ driver in the Toyota Finance 86 Championship,…
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Team-mates to be TRS rivals

December 9, 2015
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Team-mates American Will Owen and Frenchman Timothe Buret will be going head to head in the opening round of the…
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Motor racing trio win top international awards

December 8, 2015
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Three of New Zealand’s current group of rising stars of international motor racing, Brendon Hartley, Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy…
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Jaxon Evans joins TR86 grid

December 8, 2015
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Jaxon Evans, 19, is a third generation race driver who brings trans-Tasman competitiveness to the grid for the next four…
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Six consecutive TR86 wins for Blewett

November 29, 2015
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Ash Blewett is in dominant form with six wins from six starts in the 2015-2016 Toyota Finance 86 Championship. Pursued…
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Four from four for Blewett in TR86

November 28, 2015
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Ash Blewett has taken victory in wet conditions today at Hampton Downs to extend his lead in the 2015-2016 Toyota…