Support for Kiwi race drivers

| Photographer Credit: Bruce Jenkins

The Kiwi Driver Fund is now seeking applications from rising Kiwi race drivers planning to contest the 2017 Toyota Racing Series.

The fund provides independent financial support for drivers to assist them to race in TRS.

Drivers who wish to apply should email kiwidriverfund@toyota.co.nz for more information, to register their interest and to receive application forms.

Applications will be processed as they are received with awards to be made in early December 2016.

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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