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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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Strength under pressure

August 19, 2019 / 1 comment
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Where does character come from? Where do you go to mine rich seams of determination? How do you channel testosterone-driven…
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Armstrong on the attack in Hungary

August 4, 2019
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Marcus Armstrong fought back from a mid-field qualifying position to finish eighth in the first race of two at the…
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Regional cars ramped up

August 3, 2019
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The regional ‘junior’ championships are making their own plans to ramp up competition and appeal to drivers making their way…
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TRNZ breathes life into FT-60 race car

August 3, 2019
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It lives! It turns laps! The new turbo engine for Toyota’s FT-60 race car has completed its installation phase and…
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Armstrong ready to take the fight to rivals at Hungaroring

August 2, 2019
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Marcus Armstrong is once more ready to do battle for dominance in the inaugural 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship. Round…
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New Zealand needs this show.

July 27, 2019
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The thousands of happy punters who pass through the gates of the Greenlane expo complex will hardly spare a thought…
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Prospect of WRC’s return ‘exciting’

July 22, 2019
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Leading Kiwi rally driver Emma Gilmour says news the World Rally Championship could once more include New Zealand is exciting,…
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Armstrong stays strong in FIA Formula 3 at Silverstone

July 15, 2019
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Marcus Armstrong has taken a third and a fourth in the latest round of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship…
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Macau F3 – bring it on!

July 11, 2019
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From a far land, by means fair and foul, we learn this week that the FIA has yielded to pressure…
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Armstrong third and ready for the next F3 challenge: Red Bull Ring

June 28, 2019
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Just days after he stepped into the top three in the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship New Zealand driver Marcus…