HOT REWARDS | GENUINE PARTS DEALS | AND MORE.... EDITION 39 | DECEMBER 2015 genuinearticle.co.nz BUMPER ISSUE FEATURE ARTICLE Industry puts brakes on aftermarket wheels + MOTORSPORT ROUND-UP Great News Turn your STATIONERY spend into FANTASTIC rewards! See page 7 for more information Contents NEW BRAND EDITION 39 | DECEMBER 2015 2 MOTORSPORT NEWS 6 SsangYong joins the MOTORSPORT IN BRIEF GetGenuine programme 7 NEW ZEALAND OFFICE SUPPLIES 8 SUBARU 11 TERRIFIC TECH REWARDS 12 GENUINE ARTICLE RELOADED 13 HONDA We are very pleased to welcome genuine parts brand SsangYong to the GetGenuine programme. 14 FORD SsangYong has been making vehicles for over 60 years and specialise in practical, affordable 16 MEMBER PROFILE and quality Utes and SUVs. 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Elsewhere in this month’s special “bumper edition” we have From all the team at GetGenuine, have a very merry Christmas prepared five pages of thrilling motorsport reads, the latest and wonderful summer holidays. industry news and interviews, and a round-up of some great rewards ideal for your summer holidays. Benjamin Telfer - Editor All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means including electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the publishers. © Copyright Smart Trade International Ltd. 1 Motorsport Blewett serves notice of TR86 intentions Auckland driver Ash Blewett has laid down the gauntlet for this year’s Toyota Finance 86 Championship with three wins from three starts. Blewett dominated the opening ITM 500 V8 Supercar round of the competition; part of the support categories at Pukekohe Park Raceway. Blewett won November 14’s eight lap race from pole, surging forward to win the second partial reverse grid race on Day 2. Capping off a successful weekend for the young driver, Blewett achieved a comfortable win in final race of the weekend from pole. Callum Quinn finished runner-up in all three races. This is Blewett’s third championship, and it is the third time he has won in the opening Pukekohe round. Piquet returns for Toyota Racing Series Pedro Piquet, the youngest son of three-time Formula One World Champion Nelson Piquet is returning to New Zealand next January for the five-round Toyota Racing Series. Piquet briefly raced in the 2014 series, but withdrew due to an issue with his racing licence that wasn’t identified prior to entering. Now 17 years old, Piquet has won the Brazilian Formula Three Championship for two years running and will use the TRS Series as a springboard into the highly competitive FIA European Formula Three Championship in 2016. The Series starts at Ruapuna Speedway in Christchurch on January 16th. Piquet has dominated Formula Three in Brazil for the last two years, winning a whopping 12 of the 14 races held this year and 11 of the 16 events in 2014. The young driver has also competed in selected Porsche GT3 Cup events in Brazil and Europe this year to gain experience of circuits he will compete on in the future. Piquet will drive for the Hamilton-based M2 Competition team, who oversaw his appearance in 2014. M2 are the current TRS Championship winning team, with Canadian driver Lance Stroll claiming the title earlier this year. 2 Source: nzracer.com Action-packed race day at Pukekohe It was a brilliant sunny day at Pukekohe raceway and fans were treated to a 22-car grid at round two of the BNT NZ Touring Cars championship, serving as the main support class to the V8 Supercars ITM500. Simon Evans, in his Smeg Racing Holden, claimed two wins from three starts to secure the overall round win. Evans was joined on the podium by Mitchell Cunningham and Tim Edgell, driving a Ford and a Holden respectively. Other results in the action-packed day included Craig Baird’s victory in the final reverse grid race of the weekend in his Team Kiwi Racing Holden. Local driver Kevin Williams dominated the class two of the championship in his Strapping Systems Holden, securing three race wins from pole position and the fastest lap. Williams was joined on the podium by Brad Lathrope and Liam MacDonald. Source: nzracer.com 3 Motorsport Fans Flock to V8 Supercars at Pukekohe A total crowd of 116,554 people attended this Economic Development (ATEED) and all our year’s ITM 500 Auckland at Pukekohe Park partners, in particular ITM, for their support of Raceway. Attendance was up for each day of this event. Our teams and drivers love coming to the three-day event with 33,451 fans attending Pukekohe and racing at this historic circuit. on Friday, 42,978 on Saturday and 40,125 on Sunday. We spoke to V8 Supercars Chief “I also want to thank the people of New Zealand Executive James Warburton about the sports who are among the most knowledgeable and growing popularity. passionate motor sport fans in the world. Chief Executive “We are delighted with the increases in this year’s James Warburton “They’ve enjoyed great entertainment on and off attendance across each day of the event. It’s the track including the True Colour Track Walk another endorsement of V8 Supercars and the great where thousands of fans were able to get up entertainment it offers fans on and off the track. close and personal with the drivers and their cars “I want to thank Auckland Tourism, Events and on the grid.” Targa trifecta for Inkster and Winn They came, they saw and by conquering the six- day annual Targa New Zealand rally for a second year in a row Glenn Inkster and co-driver Spencer Winn have achieved an impressive trifecta. Driving a Mitsubishi Evo 8, Inkster and Winn arrived at the finish line with a nine-and-a-half minute lead over five-time former winner Tony Quinn and his co-driver Naomi Tillett. The pair were almost 20 This year’s 21st Targa NZ event covered a record minutes ahead of third-placed 2013 event winner 1035.5kms of closed special stages and 1431.7kms Martin Dippie and Jona Grant. of touring stages, kicking off in Auckland on Monday October 26 before continuing on to Hamilton, New Inkster said that this year he and Winn decided to Plymouth, Havelock North and Palmerston North. not only win the main event for a second time in a row but to also take out the earlier Inkster and Winn were never overtaken during the one-day Metalman Sprint and three-day Targa rally, leading both the Andrew Simms Allcomers 4WD Bambina events. class and overall classification from start to finish. 4 Source: nzracer.com Van Gisbergen and Quinn win Highlands 101 enduro Driving a McLaren 650S GT3, Kiwi LeBrocq, in a Mercedes-Benz, leaders in Trass Family Motorsport star Shane Van Gisbergen and had held off the hard-chasing Van Ferrari, but a tactical error in their pit Klark Quinn battled through tough Gisbergen for much of the final sector strategy resulted in the team being conditions to secure victory in the of the race but a small gap gave the disqualified. The honour of top New Highlands 101 feature race. Kiwi the advantage he was looking Zealand team went to Southland’s The biggest event of the year at for. Christopher Mies, the newly- Inky Tulloch and Nelson’s John Highlands Motorsport Park, the crowned Australian GT champion, McIntyre in their crowd-pleasing Highlands 101 also features the also took the same gap to charge Camaro GT3. through into second place. final round of the Australian GT Championship. Van Gisbergen The third edition of the three-hour managed to snatch the feature race long endurance race featured 32 lead from Erebus Motorsport’s Jack starters. Auckland-based Jono Lester LeBrocq with just two laps to go. and Graeme Smyth were the early Hayden Paddon secures fifth in Wales Hayden Paddon and co-driver progressed we were able to pick to overhaul the Citroën World Rally John Kennard have finished their things up.