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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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Motorsport careers 101: volunteer, study, work hard

May 21, 2019
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These days, we talk at length about the enormous successes of ‘our boys’ on the global motor racing scene. Rightly…
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A solid start: Marcus Armstrong stands fourth after first FIA Formula 3 round

May 13, 2019
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A third place in the opening race of the 2019 FIA Formula 3 Championship followed by fifth in the partial…
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Name that race

May 13, 2019
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This is one of New Zealand’s oldest motor races. Until last year, it was the oldest race to have been…
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Kiwi Marcus Armstrong takes third place in first FIA Formula 3 race

May 12, 2019
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Qualify well, place well: Marcus Armstrong made sure of third overall in the opening race of the 2019 FIA Formula…
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Kiwi Marcus Armstrong confident ahead of Formula 3 opener

May 10, 2019
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A bigger, faster, heavier car awaits New Zealander Marcus Armstrong as he starts his 2019 FIA Formula 3 campaign in…
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Kiwis step on up to the Big Show: FIA Formula 3

May 10, 2019
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“If you told me at the start of the season I would be Champion before this season I wouldn’t be…
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Career ladder or destination?

May 4, 2019
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Debate in recent weeks has grown heated. Or at least warm. The release of MotorSport New Zealand’s strategy doc and…
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Fenton makes spectacular debut in new car

April 23, 2019
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The opening round of the 2019 New Zealand Offroad Racing Championship started with a bang for racer Karl Fenton, who…
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The single seater path to glory

April 15, 2019 / 3 comments
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MotorSport New Zealand’s recently completed a review of its strategy for premier race categories in New Zealand focuses mainly on…
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Marcus Armstrong signs with top sports management agency

April 12, 2019
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New Zealand racer Marcus Armstrong has been inducted to exclusive driver management organisation All Road Management (ARM), which has strong…