Forceful drive nets Milligan race win at Teretonga

| Photographer Credit: Bruce Jenkins

Christchurch driver Jack Milligan put in a forceful but clean drive to take the first Toyota 86 Championship race of round four at Teretonga.
Jaden Ransley, 16, had secured pole for this race the final 86 race of the weekend and went out with determination to retain his position, but it was not to be.

Rather, Jack Milligan – one of two drivers in the CareVets racing team – would hunt Ranley down remorselessly over the opening half dozen laps.
While Jack Milligan, Tom Alexander, Connor Adam and Michael Scott are all in contention for the title, Ransley impressed the crowd by taking a dual pole across two timed sessions. He has pole for race three tomorrow afternoon.

Toyota 86 Championship round four, race one
1 Jack Milligan
2 Jaden Ransley
3 Michael Scott
4 Jordan Baldwin
5 Bramwell King
6 Peter Vodanovich
7 Sam Wright
8 Sam Wallace
9 Connor Adam
10 Tom Alexander

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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