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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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Toyotas line up for action-packed race weekend

November 25, 2015
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Experienced single make racer Ash Blewett of Auckland is watching his mirrors going into the second round of the 2015-2016…
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Morgan wins final round

November 8, 2015
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Auckland’s John Morgan has won the final round of the 2015 ENZED Offroad Racing Championship, taking his Desert Dynamics Chev…
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Blewett serves notice of TR86 intentions

November 8, 2015
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Auckland driver Ash Blewett has set the 16-strong grid for this year’s Toyota Finance 86 Championship an emphatic challenge with…
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Offroad Champs goes to the wire

November 7, 2015
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New Zealand’s fastest offroad racers scored a clean sweep of heats in the first day of racing at the final…
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Thomasen wins 2015 Polaris NZ 1000

September 28, 2015
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Tauranga’s Ben Thomasen is celebrating his most successful motorsport weekend ever after winning both days of the punishing Polaris NZ…
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THOMASEN WINS FIRST DAY OF POLARIS NZ 1000

September 26, 2015
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Tauranga’s Ben Thomasen says winning the first day of the Polaris NZ 1000 was a matter of staying clear of…
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Ultimate 1000km shakedown for new race truck

September 23, 2015
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New Zealand’s longest, toughest offroad race, the Polaris NZ1000, will be the first race for a Christchurch-based offroad race team…
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Toughest offroad race confirms international entry

August 14, 2015
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New Zealand’s toughest and longest offroad race returns in late September with an all-new course and has confirmed its first…
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Basalaj makes his mark

July 27, 2015
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Nelson racer Nevil Basalaj has overcome huge odds to win the final southern round of the 2015 ENZED Offroad Racing…
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Nelson racers prepare for national championship onslaught

July 20, 2015
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Nelson offroad racers are predicting a chilly reception for drivers in this weekend’s Ruf’n’Tuf 250, their round of the 2015…