It was good to be back at Pukekohe on a fine day, with another great entry of cars including two guests: Bob Grove in his brand new Perana Capri, and John Mills in a recently purchased 68 Camaro.

Overall a very successful first race meeting of the year with more new members to come as well as the appearance of cars that for one reason or other could not make the first round.

This years AGM was again a well attended, friendly and non-contentious event.

The proposed rounds for the new season have now been posted on the website.

The day was fine when we arrived at the track but were pleased to see that the V8Supercar pit tents were still up as the weather forecast for the day was less than perfect. There had been a race meeting at the track the day before and the Honda Cup class was also racing on the Sunday, it was however quite sobering to see the number of damaged cars that were still in the garages.
It was good to have a new car race with us Stuart Rowling from Hamilton with his very nice Walkinshaw Commodore

It was a small field of NMC cars that entered this meeting after some had raced the weekend before at the ITM 400. For the 2 members that did back up, one needed emergency panel beating (Paul Burnet) and the other Ross Golding needed to go to his backup car as the damage on his usual race car was too great to be fixed in time. Club member Tony Galbraith also received extensive damage at the ITM meeting.

As always with this particular sport, unless you think you have webbed feet you keep an eye on the weather forecast in the days leading up to race day.

The Hamilton car show would like to have some racing Holdens on display. If you would like more details see the registration form.

We had a reasonable turnout for this hastily organised meeting to replace the cancelled Thunder in the Park. The weather was real hot on Saturday with the asphalt behind the pits being measured at 62 degrees in the early afternoon.

I am pleased to say there was no hint of rain for this round compared to the Noah’s Ark deluge we had to survive at the previous round at Pukekohe.
We had a very good entry of 15 cars which included the guest appearances of Richard Ryan in the SLR 5000 Torana and Elliott Crawford in the 69 Corvette. New member Rowan Tonkin was racing for the first time, with our other new member Michael Crawley making his second appearance.

After spending all week looking at the weather forecasts, come race day it was proved that the weather men were absolutely bloody right.

After worrying all week about the weather forecast, the weather on the day was pretty good with an excellent entry of 11 for the first meeting of the year.

The brilliant autumn weather continued for all competitors in the final race for the year. This meeting was a joint round with the Production Muscle Cars and ensured a good grid of twenty one cars.

The second to last round of the Northern Muscle Cars calendar was also the last of this season's combined rounds with Central Muscle Cars. There were plenty of successes for the Northern drivers and a few failures along the way, but best of all there was plenty of excitement and action for those drivers who made the trek to Taupo.

It was an overcast but hot day at Hampton Downs for the fifth round of the Northern Muscle Car series.

The 2011 New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing hosted the fourth round of the Northern Muscle Cars series and the second of three combined NMC/CMC rounds. For the Northern drivers Hampton Downs is known to be merciless on brakes, gearboxes and axles and punishing of any inconsistency. The 27 Muscle Car drivers on the grid would have their work cut out trying to tame the track, but what a way to spend a weekend!

The first of the combined Central Muscle Cars and Northern Muscle Cars rounds had a massive grid with nearly thirty muscle cars entered from both clubs. The battle for the chocolate fish was going to be hotly contested with drivers eligible for points in both series.

Calm conditions greeted the entrants to the first race of the season at the recently completed motorsport facility at Hampton Downs. The number of entrants was up on the last meeting as we move towards the summer months. The meeting was being hosted by the Auckland Car Club.

A cool cloudy day greeted the new race season with the opening race meeting for 2010. A small field assembled with stories of cars not quite ready and of others that had early season blues. Those that were able to race were assured of good points toward this year’s championship.

Another beautiful day greeted the NMC entrants for round 5 of the Championship. Sixteen cars lined up for another meeting of the popular Hampton Downs circuit hosted by the Auckland Car Club.

Rally New Zealand which is a round of the WRC (World Rally Championship) is holding a Super Special stage at Hampton Downs on Saturday 8 May 2010.
As part of the entertainment NZIGP have opted to run a 2 class race meeting. This will be open to all saloon race cars.

Who is invited:All CMC & Northern Muscle Car Club Members – if you participated in the 2009 Muscle Car Masters in Australia it is free of charge, if not you will be charged $100 for the day.