Preparations are coming along well for the upcoming Festival of Motor Racing to be held in January next year. Recent developments have seen the name of the festival change from the former ‘Tasman Revival Series’ to attract a bigger population with the new ‘Festival of Motor Racing’. From now the NZ Festival of Motor Racing will be held annually in January each year. Each year the festival will be held at Hampton Downs MotorSports Park and at Pukekohe race track. Every Festival will celebrate either a noted driver or a different marquee of car. The first Festival of Motor Racing will celebrate Bruce McLaren with the 2011 event to celebrate Chris Amon.

The final programme of events for the festival is yet to be completed, but provisional dates have been set. The festival will run from Wednesday 20th January to Sunday 24th January 2010 at Hampton Downs and from Wedesday 27th January to Sunday 31st January 2010 at Pukekohe race track. There are many different historic racing classes planned for the festival and highlights will include the Formula F5000 and Invited F1 class, the Formula Junior and Invited F3 Class and the Invited Early Historics Class. Some very special vehicles will also be on display at the festival lead by a Ford 10 Special once owned by Bruce McLaren and a 1958 Cooper Climax formerly raaced by Mclaren.

To find out more about the NZ Festival of Motor Racing, click here to visit the website.