Five-time Trans-Am winner Kayne Scott will be lining up at the 2025 George Begg Festival. The New Zealand motorsport great has confirmed he is back for his second festival this April.
Scott began his motorsport career in motocross at the age of 12 and later transitioned to car racing. He is best known for his success in the New Zealand Trans-Am series, where he won the championship five times. He also won the 2005/06 New Zealand V8s series.
Additionally, Scott competed in the Australian V8 Supercar series with Team Kiwi Racing.
Teretonga Park Raceway has always been a favourite for him and has brought him much success over the years.
He is looking forward to being back on the track this April.
It’s not just the racing he is looking forward to though, but the whole festival experience and coming south.
While Invercargill has undergone extensive development in recent years, and it has been fantastic to see, it is the people that bring him back to the region time and time again, he said.
“I feel like you get into the South Island and it’s just a different culture… I really like coming to the South Island and Invercargill is the epitome of all of that.”
He’ll also be joining an old friend for this year’s festival, the “Peanut Slab” Ford Sierra, which he first race in 1992 in the Wellington Street Race with Greg Murphy.
Just last year, Scott drove the Slab to victory in the Highland Festival of Speed’s first Historic Touring Car category race.
He’s found a newfound appreciation for getting behind the wheel of the phenomenal car.
Back in the day, I used to just get in and drive, now with the experience I understand it a bit better, he said.
“I’m really enjoying driving that car.”
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