Peak Motorsport Group

This article is about the group itself. For the team, see Peak Motorsport.

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The Peak Motorsport Group (abbreviated to PMG) is a New Zealand motorsport consortium founded in 2016.

History

The High Performance Group was formed in 2016 by businessmen Raymond Douglas (head of the Douglas Media Group), Craig Harris (owner of Harris Finance), and Dominic Spearman (CEO of Spearman Industries). It competed in the F1 Rejects Super Touring Cup, Rejects Rallycross Championship, and the Lupo GTI Championship.

In the off-season between 2016 and 2017, Spearman and Douglas sold their shares to British supermarket magnate Roger Clark (father of Julian) and Mexican telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim. The group was renamed as the Peak Motorsport Group.

Operations

The Peak Motorsport Group is based in Auckland, New Zealand (although Glacier Mont Blanc Racing is based in Grenoble, France). They operate three racing teams, an engine division known as Peak Motorsport Engines, and a driver management arm known as Peak Driver Talent.

Racing operations

For more information, see Peak Motorsport and Mont Blanc Racing.

Peak Motorsport is the senior open-wheel team.

Mont Blanc Racing (MBR) is the endurance racing arm. It operates an LMP1 team in the Le Mans Cup and also a GT team, known as Harris Finance MBR.

Everest Rally Team is the rally team. It has been placed on hiatus due to the collapse of the Reject Rally Trophy and Rejects Rallycross Championship series that it was competing in.

Speed Collective Racing is the junior open-wheel team.

Ziegler Auto Racing is the touring car team that competes in the F1RSTC and also in the Lupo GTI Cup under the Harris Finance ZAR name.

Additionally, PMG operates the Dodge SRT Racing Team in the Women's GT Junior Cup and Team New Zealand in the Community Racing Series.

Structure

The new structure from 2017 onwards is as follows:

Overall group: Peak Motorsport Group

• Open-wheel team: Peak Motorsport
  • Junior team: Speed Collective Racing
• Touring car team: Ziegler Auto Racing
  • Junior team: / Harris Finance ZAR
• Endurance racing team: Mont Blanc Racing
  • Junior team: / Harris Finance MBR
• Rallying team: Everest Rally Team (on hiatus)
• Engines: Peak Motorsport Engines
• Driver management: Peak Driver Talent

Team and driver schedule

2016

Please note: PMG was known as the High Performance Group during the 2016 RWRS season

HPG's team and driver schedule for the current 2016 Reject World Race Series season is as follows:

Teams run by HPG
Series (season)	Series organiser	Team name	Car	No	Driver	Rounds
2016 Aston 24 Hours	Nuppiz	Speed Collective Racing	FXR	24	Karl van der Zwaart	NC
					Ragnar Larsen
					Verna Klien
F1 Rejects Super Touring Cup (2016-17)	WaffleCat	High Performance Racing	Mazda 323	23	Julian Clark	1-5
					Catalina Zhang	6-12
				33	Alvin Ziegler	1-2, 4-12
					Verna Klien	3
Lupo GTI Championship (2016)	Rated	Harris Finance Racing	Volkswagen Lupo GTI	23	Kristina Harris	5-7, NC 1, NC 2
				24	Kaitlyn Harris	NC 1, NC 2
		John Deere Racing		32	Angelica Lopez	NC 1
				33	Hugo Carvalho	NC 1
Teams not run by HPG
Series (season)	Series organiser	Team name (owner)	Car	No	Driver	Rounds
GT-Rejects World Championship (2016)	RealRacingRoots	Best In The World Motorsport (Klon)	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT	11	Randall Wade	5-14
International Formula Reject Challenge (2016)	Nuppiz	Takagi Racing Enterprises (FMecha)	Lola FN06-Honda-Judd	8	Verna Klien	10-12
Rejects Touring Car Championship (2016)	pasta_maldonado	/ Onyx Toyota Racing (Onxy Wrecked)	Toyota Carina	30	Julian Clark	4-13

2017

PMG's provisional team and driver schedule for the 2017 Reject World Race Series season is as follows:

PLEASE NOTE: This is completely provisional and is subject to change.

Teams run by HPG
Series (season)	Series organiser	Team name	Car	No	Driver	Rounds
AutoRejects Super Touring (2017)	Salamander	DHL Ziegler Auto Racing	Audi RS6	23	Alvin Ziegler (TBC)	1-
				30	Julian Clark	1-
F1 Rejects Super Touring Cup (2017-18)	WaffleCat	Ziegler Auto Racing	TBA	23	Karl van der Zwaart	All
				33	Skye Summers (TBC)
AutoReject GTi (2017)	Rated	/ Harris Finance ZAR	VW Lupo GTI	23	Kaitlyn Harris	All
				24	Romain Hadamard
Le Mans Cup (2017)	pi314159	Mont Blanc Racing	Onroak LMP1-Zytek	3	Sébastien Bourdais	All
					Vic Sunset
					Ragnar Larsen
				24	Randall Wade
					Serge Blanco
					J.C. Wolf
		/ Harris Finance MBR	Porsche 991 GT	25	"Dragon"
					Ryan Carlton
					Kelly Harris
Toyota Reject Racing Series (2017)	Biscione	Speed Collective Racing	Toyota Tatuus TT104ZZ	22	Viktor Pasitchnjuk	All
				33	John Bean
Teams not run by HPG
Series (season)	Series organiser	Team name (owner)	Car	No	Driver	Rounds
AutoReject 2.0 (2017)	Ataxia	Octan Young Drivers (This)	Dallara	23	Angelica Lopez	1-
AutoRejects Super Touring (2017)	Salamander	People Power presents Dodge CR Motorsport (Klon)	Dodge Charger	26	Catalina Zhang	1-
		Vermillion Automotive Collective (tristan1117)	Hyundai Sonata	74	Kristina Harris	1-

NOTES:

• Some PMG drivers may be available for driving duties. Inquire with PMG management.
• Teams/cars marked "TBA" in the round column have not yet been confirmed.

Other operations

Driver management

Current drivers managed by Peak Driver Talent are:

Drivers
Hugo Carvalho	Verna Klien
Julian Clark	Ragnar Larsen
Randall Wade	Angelica Lopez
Kaitlyn Harris	Skye Summers
Kelly Harris	Catalina Zhang
Kristina Harris	Alvin Ziegler

Engines

PMG supply their own engines through a subsidiary, Peak Motorsport Engines.