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''This article is about the group itself. For the team, see [[Peak Motorsport]]''.
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''This article is about the group. For the team, see [[Peak Motorsport]]''.
  
 
[[File:Peak Motorsport logo.png|200px|thumb|right|PMG logo]]  
 
[[File:Peak Motorsport logo.png|200px|thumb|right|PMG logo]]  
  
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The '''Peak Motorsport Group''' (or '''PMG''') is an international motorsport consortium based primarily in Auckland, New Zealand; though it also has divisions in other countries.
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The '''Peak Motorsport Group''' (or '''PMG''') is an international motorsport consortium headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand; though it also has divisions in other countries, most notably Canada. They are the owners of [[Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series|ARWS]] team [[Peak Aeroracing Engineering]].
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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The Peak Motorsport Group was formed in early 2006 by Canadian native Edward Summers, a prominent businessman. It entered the [[2007 Alternate GP2 season]] as "Peak Motorsport Canada", with its workshop in Vancouver.
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The Peak Motorsport Group was formed in 2017 when Edward Summers' Peak Motorsport Canada merged with the New Zealand-based High Performance Group. HPG had been formed at the beginning of 2016 by Raymond Douglas (head of the Douglas Media Group), Dominic Spearman (CEO of Spearman Industries) and Craig Harris (founder & CEO of Harris Finance). They ran a number of teams in various series during 2016, most notably High Performance Racing in F1RSTC and RRC and Harris Finance Racing in Lupo GTI.
  
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The High Performance Group was formed at the beginning of 2016 by Raymond Douglas (head of the Douglas Media Group), Dominic Spearman (CEO of Spearman Industries) and Craig Harris (founder/CEO, Harris Finance). They ran a number of teams in various series during 2016.
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As part of the merger, Ziegler Holdings and the Clark Corporation purchased the shareholdings held by Douglas and Spearman.
  
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PMG and HPG merged at the beginning of [[2017 Canon Motorsport Calendar|2017]], with Ziegler Holdings ([[Alvin Ziegler]]) and the Clark Corporation (The Clark family) buying out the shareholdings held by Douglas and Spearman.
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===Ownership===
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The current ownership structure is as follows:
  
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===Ownership===
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{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%;"
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Peak Motorsport Group
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! colspan=4| Organisation<br><small>owner(s)<small>
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* 2006-2017:
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** [[File:Flag of Canada svg.png]] Summers Group LLC. (Edward Summers) - 100%
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| align=center| Peak Motorsport Canada (2006-2017)<br><small>Summers Incorporated (100%)<small>
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High Performance Group
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| align=center| High Performance Group (2016-2017)<br><small>Harris Family Trust/Harris Finance (50%)<br> Douglas Media Group (25%)<br>Spearman Industries (25%)<small>
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* 2006-2017:
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** [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] Harris Family Trust (Craig Harris) - 33.3%
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| colspan=4 align=center| Peak Motorsport Group (2017-)<br><small>Summers Incorporated (50%)<br>Harris Family Trust (25%)<br>Ziegler Holdings AG (12.5%)<br>Clark Corporation Ltd. (12.5%)<small>
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** [[File:Flag of the United States svg.png]] Douglas Media Group Inc. (Raymond Douglas) - 33.3%
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** [[File:Flag of the United States svg.png]] Spearman Industries (Dominic Spearman) - 33.3%
 
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Peak Motorsport Group (merged)
 
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* 2017-:
 
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** [[File:Flag of Canada svg.png]] Summers Group LLC. (Edward Summers) - 25%
 
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** [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] Harris Family Trust (Craig Harris) - 25%
 
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** [[File:Flag of Germany svg.png]] Ziegler Holdings AG (Alvin Ziegler) - 25%
 
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** [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Clark Corporation Ltd. (Roger Clark) - 25%
 
  
 
==Operations==
 
==Operations==
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The headquarters of PMG is in Auckland, New Zealand along with their main workshop. This is also the workshop for the [[Everest Rally Team]]. Other workshops are located in Berlin ([[Ziegler Auto Racing]]), Vancouver ([[Peak Motorsport|Peak Motorsport Canada]]) and Grenoble ([[Mont Blanc Racing]]).  
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The headquarters of PMG is in Auckland, New Zealand along with their main workshop. Other workshops are located in Coventry ([[Peak Aeroracing Engineering]]), Vancouver ([[Peak Motorsport Canada]]), Berlin ([[Ziegler Auto Racing]]) and Grenoble ([[Mont Blanc Racing]]).  
  
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The group currently run four racing teams - [[Peak Motorsport|Peak Motorsport Canada]], the open wheel team, the [[Mont Blanc Racing]] endurance racing squad, the [[Everest Rally Team]] and the [[Ziegler Auto Racing]] touring car operation.
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The group currently run three racing teams - [[Peak Aeroracing Engineering]] in open-wheel series, [[Peak Motorsport Canada]] in lower-level formulae, the [[Mont Blanc Racing]] endurance racing squad, and the [[Ziegler Auto Racing]] touring car operation. They also formerly ran the now defunct [[Everest Rally Team]] out of the Auckland workshop.
  
 
===Driver management===
 
===Driver management===
 
The following is the roster of drivers managed by Peak Driver Talent, the driver management arm of PMG:
 
The following is the roster of drivers managed by Peak Driver Talent, the driver management arm of PMG:
  
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* [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] [[Julian Clark]]
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* {{VEN}} [[Jorge Agramonte]]
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* [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] [[Ross Clark]]
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* {{FRA}} [[Bernard Beauchene]]
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* [[File:Flag of Australia svg.png]] [[Benjamin Foster-Thompson]]
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* {{USA}} [[Joey Bennett]]
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* [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] [[Kaitlyn Harris]]
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* {{NZL}} [[Simon Bourne]]
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* [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] [[Kelly Harris]]
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* {{TUR}} [[Ahmet Burakgazi]]
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* [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] [[Kristina Harris]]
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* {{GBR}} [[Ryan Carlton]]
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* [[File:Flag of Austria svg.png]] [[Verna Klien]]
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* {{POR}} [[Hugo Carvalho]]  
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* [[File:Flag of Denmark svg.png]] [[Ludvig Kristoffersen]]
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* {{KOR}} [[Seong-Jin Cho]]
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* [[File:Flag of Sweden svg.png]] [[Ragnar Larsen]]
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* {{SUI}} [[Théo Christen]]
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* [[File:Flag of Russia svg.png]] [[Viktor Pasitchnjuk]]
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* {{GBR}} [[Julian Clark]]
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* [[File:Flag of Mexico svg.png]] [[Angelica Lopez]]
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* {{GBR}} [[Ross Clark]]
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* [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] [[Steven Mackintosh]]
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* {{CIV}} [[Akua Cugoano]]
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* [[File:Flag of the United States svg.png]] [[Tony Scrugham III]]
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* {{GBR}} [[Gerallt Davies]]
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* [[File:Flag of Canada svg.png]] [[Dakota Summers]]
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* {{ITA}} [[Michelangela Dioli]]
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* [[File:Flag of Canada svg.png]] [[Skye Summers]]
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* {{AUS}} [[Benjamin Foster-Thompson]]
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* [[File:Flag of the United States svg.png]] [[Randall Wade]]
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* {{NZL}} [[Kaitlyn Harris]]
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* [[File:Flag of China svg.png]] [[Catalina Zhang]]
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* {{NZL}} [[Kelly Harris]]
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* [[File:Flag of Germany svg.png]] [[Alvin Ziegler]]
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* {{NZL}} [[Kristina Harris]]
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* {{SRB}} [[Iva Janković]]
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===Structure===
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* {{TRO}} [[Renaldo Jiménez]]
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The structure of the Group is as follows:
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* {{BEL}} [[Eugenie Joosens]]
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* {{AUT}} [[Verna Klien]]
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[[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] Peak Motorsport Group
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* {{DEN}} [[Ludvig Kristoffersen]]
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* Open wheel operations
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* {{SWE}} [[Ragnar Larsen]]
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** [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] [[Peak Motorsport]] (Formula 5000)
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* {{MEX}} [[Angelica Lopez]]
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** [[File:Flag of Canada svg.png]] [[Peak Motorsport|Peak Motorsport Canada]] (IWC and AR2.0 NA)
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* {{VIE}} [[Thi Nhat]]
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* Touring car operations
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* {{RUS}} [[Viktor Pasitchnjuk]]
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** [[File:Flag of Germany svg.png]] [[Ziegler Auto Racing]] (ARST)
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* {{POL}} [[Danuta Popławski]]  
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*** [[File:Flag of Germany svg.png]] [[Ziegler Auto Racing|ZAR Junior Team]] (ARGTi)
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* {{GBR}} [[Steven Mackintosh]]
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** [[File:Flag of China svg.png]] [[Far East Associates Racing]] (ARST)
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* {{SEN}} [[Mohammed Siki]]
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* Endurance racing operations
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* {{CAN}} [[Arienne Sorel]]  
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** [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] [[Mont Blanc Racing]] (LMC)
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* {{USA}} [[Tony Scrugham III]]
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* Rallying operations
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* {{CAN}} [[Dakota Summers]]
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** [[File:Flag of New Zealand svg.png]] [[Everest Rally Team]] (Group B Rallycross)
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* {{CAN}} [[Skye Summers]]  
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* {{GBR}} [[Jemma Triggs]]
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==Team and driver schedule==
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* {{USA}} [[Randall Wade]]
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PMG's provisional team and driver schedule for [[2018 Canon Motorsport Calendar|2018]] is as follows:
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* {{CHN}} [[Catalina Zhang]]
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* {{GER}} [[Alvin Ziegler]]
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''PLEASE NOTE: This is completely provisional and is subject to change.''
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* {{JPN}} [[Daisuke Yanagawa]]
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* {{FRA}} [[Lukas Zuber]]
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[[Category:Peak Motorsport Group]]
 
[[Category:Peak Motorsport Group]]

Latest revision as of 22:56, 5 November 2017

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

PMG logo

The Peak Motorsport Group (or PMG) is an international motorsport consortium headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand; though it also has divisions in other countries, most notably Canada. They are the owners of ARWS team Peak Aeroracing Engineering.

History

The Peak Motorsport Group was formed in 2017 when Edward Summers' Peak Motorsport Canada merged with the New Zealand-based High Performance Group. HPG had been formed at the beginning of 2016 by Raymond Douglas (head of the Douglas Media Group), Dominic Spearman (CEO of Spearman Industries) and Craig Harris (founder & CEO of Harris Finance). They ran a number of teams in various series during 2016, most notably High Performance Racing in F1RSTC and RRC and Harris Finance Racing in Lupo GTI.

As part of the merger, Ziegler Holdings and the Clark Corporation purchased the shareholdings held by Douglas and Spearman.

Ownership

The current ownership structure is as follows:

Organisation
owner(s)
Peak Motorsport Canada (2006-2017)
Summers Incorporated (100%) 		High Performance Group (2016-2017)
Harris Family Trust/Harris Finance (50%)
Douglas Media Group (25%)
Spearman Industries (25%)
Peak Motorsport Group (2017-)
Summers Incorporated (50%)
Harris Family Trust (25%)
Ziegler Holdings AG (12.5%)
Clark Corporation Ltd. (12.5%)

Operations

The headquarters of PMG is in Auckland, New Zealand along with their main workshop. Other workshops are located in Coventry (Peak Aeroracing Engineering), Vancouver (Peak Motorsport Canada), Berlin (Ziegler Auto Racing) and Grenoble (Mont Blanc Racing).

The group currently run three racing teams - Peak Aeroracing Engineering in open-wheel series, Peak Motorsport Canada in lower-level formulae, the Mont Blanc Racing endurance racing squad, and the Ziegler Auto Racing touring car operation. They also formerly ran the now defunct Everest Rally Team out of the Auckland workshop.

Driver management

The following is the roster of drivers managed by Peak Driver Talent, the driver management arm of PMG:

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