The second half of the 2011/12 IRC Race Series will kick off in style this coming weekend with the fifth round of the championship held in conjunction with the Toyota Racing Series.

Heading into the fourth round of what has been touted as the most competitive championship ever, the 19-strong 2012 Toyota Racing Series grid features 15 international drivers from 12 countries. Read More >>

Check them out by visiting the class pages on the left of your screen.

Competitors turned out in bumper numbers for the 2011 running of Thunder in the Park over the weekend, however Sunday’s horrible weather claimed more than its fair share of victims as competitors tip-toed their way around a slippery and treacherous Pukekohe Park Raceway.

Pre-event testing and Saturday’s qualifying sessions and opening races were held in fine conditions, but as Sunday dawned so did a spell of heavy rain that refused to let up until the very end of race day. Read More >>

Check them out by visiting the class pages on the left of your screen.

Important info has been added for Thunder in the Park pertaining to Pit Location for each class, noise limits and competitor info for this weekend’s event, as well as an exclusive competitor-only ticket deal, so make sure you check it out in the Pukekohe event page!

The New Zealand motorsport calendar’s largest annual entry card is expected at Pukekohe Park Raceway this weekend for the annual ‘Thunder in the Park’ spectacular, and one machine that epitomises the high horsepower event is the Chesters Plumbing & Bathrooms Holden V8 Supercar.

Owned and piloted by Nick Chester, the VZ Commodore started its life as a Team Dynamik project for the V8 Supercar Championship, but the intrusion of the credit crunch meant the build was shelved before it was ever able to hit the track.

Read More >>

Fast becoming one of the most revered machines in Australasian motorsport, the Chester’s Plumbing V8 Supercar of Nick Chester set a new benchmark for all in his wake at the Hampton Downs IRC Trophy Meeting today.

Held as a one day event with six of the regular IRC classes competing, Chester stole the show in his ‘Uber-Supercar’, based on a heavily modified Holden V8 Supercar platform, scorching around the 2.63km circuit in 1:03.359 in qualifying, and setting consecutive 64.0 and 64.1 second racing laps thereafter.

Read the full story here

Read More >>

After a scintillating week of weather in the Auckland region, the clouds have converged over Hampton Downs for the third round of the IRC Series, held as a one day event this Sunday, November 13.

Read the full story here
Read More >>

Event info is now online…check it out here!

Check out the IRC Series Flickr Group here and add your own snaps from our events!