GAZOO Racing New Zealand

10/10/2026

leezeltwangermotorsport making the most of the mountain 💥💥

08/10/2026

Bridgestone GR86 Championship Rookie of the Year for the 2025-2026 season Lee Zeltwanger is all set to impress when he takes to the track for the first race later this morning at one of the Toyota 86’s highest profile race weekends worldwide – the Bathurst 1000 round.

The big weekend completes an impressive period for Zeltwanger, who burst onto the Toyota 86 scene last winter winning the Toyota 86 Trophy Series. That won him a pathway prize of a full season in the main game Bridgestone GR86 Championship. He won the rookie trophy for that, which secured him the Bathurst weekend.

Running as part of an exclusive support cast for the Bathurst 1000 Supercars showcase, the Toyota 86 round at Mount Panorama each year draws huge interest – and large competitive fields. Zeltwanger though is keen to impress on his first visit to the track and his first racing weekend in Australia.

08/10/2026

THE FIRST NAME ON THE 2027 GRID 🏁

Kiwi racer Toby McCormack is targeting podiums and a trip to Macau as the top driver in the Tasman region for his first campaign in the 2027 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Trophy.

McCormack – first to be confirmed for CTFROT 2027 - will join new team Rodin Motorsport for the 2027 Trophy, which will see a full field of second generation Formula Regional cars compete on four of NZ’s most iconic tracks, concluding with the New Zealand Grand Prix at the end of January.

Aucklander McCormack may not be a well-known name internationally, but the 19-year-old has an outstanding track record in single seaters on the domestic racing scene in New Zealand.

06/10/2026

🚨 DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Riley Boswell is aiming to convert an eye-catching debut campaign over the winter into a successful first campaign in this coming season’s Bridgestone GR86 Championship.

The 16-year-old from Ngahinapouri will be a dark horse for race wins after showing an impressive turn of speed on his way to third place in the Toyota 86 Trophy Series.

Riley will run with family team REB Motorsport as he did during the Trophy Series and has been hard at work away from the track improving his fitness and securing an impressive list of sponsors for the forthcoming season.

04/10/2026

🚨 DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Nathan Grammer is leaving no stone unturned as he aims for a successful first full season in the 2026-27 Bridgestone GR86 Championship and the next big step in his motorsport career.

Back with Mackenzie Motorsport and a season focussed on success in the championship, Grammer has two rounds under his belt from last season which allows him to compete for the Rookie honours as well as the overall title.

Grammer was a force during the winter’s Toyota 86 Trophy Series – showing prodigious race pace more often than not and taking several race wins. It is all part of a structured programme that if successful will see Nathan on the world stage within a few years.

“It was great to be back in the TR86 over the winter in the Trophy Series and it is all part of a long term plan of where we are heading,” explained the St Kentigern’s Year 12 student.

01/10/2026

Less than 100 sleeps to go until Race 1 of the 2027 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Trophy! 🏎️💨

30/09/2026

Rising rally star Jack Hawkeswood made history in more ways than one over the weekend after claiming his first Brian Green Property Group NZ Rally Championship with the final round in the Bay of Plenty still to run.

Jack took a memorable and comprehensive victory at the Rally of Whangarei on Sunday in his Hawkeswood Mining GR Yaris Rally 2 car - finishing 56.8 seconds ahead of Robbie Stokes in his Rally 2 Skoda.

After father Andrew’s championship win in 2017, Jack’s title success marked the Hawkeswoods as the only father and son to have both secured NZ’s premier rallying title. It was also the second NZ Rally Championship success for GR Yaris Rally 2 co-driver Jason Farmer.

29/09/2026

🚨 DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Justin Allen – race winner and title contender in past seasons – will start his ninth and he says last season in the Bridgestone GR86 Championship aiming for wins at every round.

The popular Feilding series veteran – still only 31 years of age – has been competitive at almost every race over that eight-season period but has never put together what he believes would be a title-winning campaign.

“I love the racing in this championship,” he said. “It’s always good to test yourself against the best of the rising stars and hopefully I do believe have acquitted myself well over the years.

27/09/2026

GLORY FOR GR! 🏆🔥

Congratulations Jack and Jason on an incredible result!

For the first time since the New Zealand Rally Championship began in 1977, the championship has been won in a Toyota. 🇳🇿🏁

A historic first. What a way to do it.

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24/09/2026

2025-2026 Bridgestone GR86 Championship runner-up Zach Blincoe made an impressive debut over the weekend in the penultimate round of the Monochrome GT4 Australia series with an eye-catching fifth place finish capping a fine weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Alongside Daniel Frougas in the local Sydney-based GWR Australia team for his prize-winning cameo ain the popular GT4 series, a solid start in first practice was just the beginning for Blincoe.

Thirteenth fastest in that session, the dup then went 12th in the second practice session, seventh in the first qualifying session with Frougas and then a super impressive fifth in the second qualifying session for Blincoe. That made the team the fastest Toyota in both qualifying sessions with Zach just a second off Q2 pace setter Jet Murray in his McLaren Artura.

READ MORE 👉 https://www.toyota.co.nz/toyota-racing/international/2026/september/blincoe-makes-mark-in-australia