A full field of unique Historic Touring Cars will take to the Pukekohe Park Raceway this weekend as one of the support categories to the Repco Supercars round, the ITM Auckland SuperSprint.
Greg Murphy, John Bowe, Paul Radisich and Steven Richards will be part of the 30+ strong field that includes 13 Group A cars (including four Ford Sierra RS500s), four NZ Schedule S cars and 13 Supertourers.
New to the category is the ex Whittakers Peanut slab Ford Sierra RS 500, owned by Christchurch’s Peter Sturgeon, which will be piloted at the meeting by ex-Bathurst winner Greg Murphy. This was the first touring car that Greg drove 30 years ago at the very start of his professional career. He went on to share the car with Kayne Scott in the 1992 Nissan-Mobil Series first in Wellington then a week later at Pukekohe, finishing third in the series.
The car previously had raced at Bathurst in 1988 driven by Armin Hahne and Robbie Francevic, in 1989 with Francevic and Gianfranco Brancatelli and in 1990 with Brancatelli and Robb Gravett
John Bowe will be reunited with his Dick Johnson #6 Shell Sierra RS500 that he raced in 1991 (main picture). Bowe was with Dick Johnson racing between 1988 to 2009.
Back in New Zealand is F5000 and Historic F1 driver Michael Lyons from the UK. Last weekend Lyons co-drove a Hyundai i20N TCR with Southland’s Scott O’Donnell, winning the One Hour South Island Endurance Series race in Christchurch for Lass 4 & 5 cars. Lyons will be driving a 1998 Nissen Primera Supertourer. This car was built by Team Dynamics and was raced by Matt Neal in the 1998 British touring car championship
Austin McKinly will be driving his newly acquired genuine 1993 Group A Larry Perkins built VP Holden Commodore which was campaigned in the Australian Touring Car Championship.
This weekend Lyons will be behind the wheel of a 1998 Nissen Primera Supertourer. This car was built by Team Dynamics and was raced by Matt Neal in the 1998 British Touring Car Championship.
Steven RIchards will race Murray Sinclair’s Nissen Primera Supertourer, the same model he drove for Garry Rogers Motorsport in the 1997 Australian Super Touring Championship.
Former World Touring Car Champion, Paul Radisich, will pilot the 1995 Wolf Ford Mondeo at Pukekohe while Stu Rogers will be competing in his very quick twin-turbo RB26-powered, 4WD BNR32 Nissan Skyline GT-R.
Qualifying takes place Friday afternoon at 15:50 with Race 1 at 10:35 Saturday morning and Race 2 at 13:00 in the afternoon. One final race is set to go at 11:40 Sunday morning.
Archibolds Historic Touring Cars Entry list
Car # Driver Name Make/Model
2 Greg Murphy Ford Sierra
17 John Bowe Ford Sierra
62 Nigel Arkell Honda Accord
40 Lindsay O’Donnell Volvo S40
3 Scott O’Donnell Ford Mondeo
25 Matt O’Donnell BMW E36
1 Steven Kelly BMW E36
15 Aaron Black BMW E30 M3
8 Warren Good BMW E36
66 Paul McCarthy Mazda Exedous
7 Allan Dippie Rover
Pete Sturgeon BMW 635 GrpC
33 Conrad Timms Ford Mondeo
52 Gary Johnstone Jaguar XJS
2 Stu Rogers Nissan Skyline
42 Warwick Mortimer BMW E30 M3
94 Andre Mortimer Ford Sierra
39 Austin McKinley Holden Commodore
16 Paul Radisich Ford Mondeo
17 Lance Coupland
46 Matt Martin BMW 318i
10 Stu Black Toyota Corina
77 Phil Mauger Nissan
43 Stephen Armstrong Mazda RX7
21 Graeme Cameron BMW E30 M3
28 Brett Stevens Ford Sierra
12 Warren Dunn BMW E30 M3
55 Dennis Ham Alfa Romeo
? Gordon Burr Ford Capri
29 Paul Burnett Ford Mustang
100 David Beatie Toyota Carona
5 Mike Eady BMW E36
16 Tony Forde Holden VL Walkinshaw
10 Dan Barlow Suzuki Baleno
33 Steven Richards Nissan Primera
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