New Radical SR10 sports car on NZ demonstration tour

Radical Sports Cars NZ has confirmed a five-stop north-south tour to celebrate the arrival of the high performance SR10 track car.

Radical NZ’s Greg Brinck says the tour will bring the new model to the race enthusiasts and he has assembled an all-star driver team to demonstrate the capabilities of the SR10, the most powerful Radical yet.

“We are celebrating Radical’s first year of operation in New Zealand – and what better way to do so than with a road tour to show people the new SR10?”

Targeted at track-day enthusiasts, motorsport ‘driver club’ members and racers, the SR10 delivers class-leading power (316 kW) and torque (518 Nm) in a track-specific chassis and full ‘aero’ body; the whole package weighing in at around 725 kg. Its standing-start 0-100 km/h time is 2.4 seconds.

The launch tour starts at Manfeild outside Feilding on December 6.

Former World Superbike Championship star Aaron Slight and V8 Supercar star Greg Murphy – a four time Bathurst 1000 winner – will be on hand at the first event to showcase the SR10.

From there the tour heads to Christchurch, Timaru and Highlands Park in the South Island. Experienced circuit racers Tom Alexander and Paul Blomquist will join Slight to demonstrate the SR10 at southern events. The 2021 launch tour concludes at Taupo on December 16.

Brinck says there will be a separate event at the Hampton Downs – the NZ home of the Radical brand – in 2022. Radical is also the sponsor of the 2022 New Zealand Sportscar Championship.

“The tour is a unique opportunity to see the SR10 up close and experience its performance.

There has already been strong interest from many parts of New Zealand. It’s important that we bring the new car out to show enthusiasts and prospective buyers.”

Current Covid-19 restrictions prevent customers from flying into Auckland and travelling to launch events at Hampton Downs.

Those keen to attend can register interest by email at greg@radicalsportscarsnz.co.nz

Dates:
Manfeild (Feilding) December 6 from 5.45pm
Christchurch – December 9 From 5.45pm
Timaru – December 10 from 4.00pm
Highlands (Cromwell) December 12 from 2.00pm; presentation and hot laps the following day. Test Drives by prior appointment.
Taupo December 16 from 5.00pm

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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