New Zealand has a great record when it comes to the World Drivers Championship and Blair Orange will expand it when the series comes to NZ in November.
Of all the countries represented since the series started in 1970, New -Zealand has been the most successful with six winners.
The first winner of Nieuw -Zeeland was Cambridge Horseman Kevin Holmes in 1978, followed by Robert Cameron (1983), Tony Herlihy (1985), Maurice Mckendry (1991), Mark Jones (2003) and Dexter Dunn (2015).
Peter Wolfenden should represent New -Zeeland in 1978, but he refused the invitation so that Holmes took up the challenge.
The series was run on ten tracks in North America at the end of May and the beginning of April ’78 and, of forty -seven races, Holmes kept ten and finished twenty -one in the second or third time. He finished thirty -five points for Pekka Korpi from Finland.
The famous Norwegian driver Ulf Thoressen participated that year and finished fourth. During the nine years he represented his country, won four WDCs and so far he is the most successful driver in the fifty -five -year history of the series.
In 1978, drivers earned $ 10 per point and the winner an extra $ 2,500 bonus, so Holmes took $ 5,800.00 home.
Winning races in America were not new for the New Zealand rider. He took smart two -year -old test times to the United States.
This year the WDC championships will be racet in New -Zeeland, with heats in Kaikoura, Cambridge, Addington and Winton. The last day of the series is on Cup Day on Addington.
Competers are James MacDonald -Canada, Gary Hall JR -Australian, Antonio Simioli -Italy, Santu Raitala -Finland, Michael Nimczyk -Nederland, Blair Orrans -Sweden, Prayer -New Zeatures -Akkens. and Brett Beckwith – vs.
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