Spectacular stadium offroad racing comes to town
It's on: New Zealand’s newest race circuit kicks off the coming year with a new national championship offroad race event held over two weekends: the 2021 Mickey Thompson New Zealand Stadium Offroad Racing Championship.
The new Manukau International Offroad Stadium on Prices Road near Auckland Airport is the venue for the two-round American-style stadium events, with racing to be held on 13 February and 6 March 2021.
This is New Zealand offroad racing’s newest title fight and it brings the fastest and most spectacular race drivers to Auckland’s doorstep.
The purpose-built racetrack features with tabletop jumps, berms, switchbacks and high speed straights, all set out to give spectators the best possible up-close view of the action.
Already, entries for the top race classes have hit maximum grid numbers, with more than 15 ThunderTrucks, the same number of unlimited ‘Pro1’ race cars and up to 30 UTV or ‘side by side’ race cars.
Competition will run from 1.00pm to 5.00 pm on both race days, with rapid-fire changes between races. The day’s format is modeled on successful Kiwi speedway events and is heat-based, with the opening heat gridded according to date of entry, the second in reverse order and the third a ‘semi-main’ heat.
The heats are followed by two 15-lap feature races to end each day’s racing.
The Lucas Oil feature race groups together ProBuggy, Challenger, SuperBug, Ultra4, Ultra4Turbo and Ultra4Pro cars; the Mickey Thompson feature race pits the Pro1, ThunderTruck and ProLite trucks against each other.
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