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

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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.

History

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.

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.

PMG and HPG merged at the beginning of 2017, with Ziegler Holdings (Alvin Ziegler) and the Clark Corporation (The Clark family) buying out the shareholdings held by Douglas and Spearman.

Ownership

Peak Motorsport Group

• 2006-2017:
  • Summers Group LLC. (Edward Summers) - 100%

High Performance Group

• 2006-2017:
  • Harris Family Trust (Craig Harris) - 33.3%
  • Douglas Media Group Inc. (Raymond Douglas) - 33.3%
  • Spearman Industries (Dominic Spearman) - 33.3%

Peak Motorsport Group (merged)

• 2017-:
  • Summers Group LLC. (Edward Summers) - 25%
  • Harris Family Trust (Craig Harris) - 25%
  • Ziegler Holdings AG (Alvin Ziegler) - 25%
  • Clark Corporation Ltd. (Roger Clark) - 25%

Operations

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 Canada) and Grenoble (Mont Blanc Racing).

The group currently run four racing teams - 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.

Driver management

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

• Julian Clark
• Ross Clark
• Benjamin Foster-Thompson
• Kaitlyn Harris
• Kelly Harris
• Kristina Harris
• Verna Klien
• Ludvig Kristoffersen
• Ragnar Larsen
• Viktor Pasitchnjuk
• Angelica Lopez
• Steven Mackintosh
• Tony Scrugham III
• Dakota Summers
• Skye Summers
• Randall Wade
• Catalina Zhang
• Alvin Ziegler

Structure

The structure of the Group is as follows:

Peak Motorsport Group

• Open wheel operations
  • Peak Motorsport (Formula 5000)
  • Peak Motorsport Canada (IWC and AR2.0 NA)
• Touring car operations
  • Ziegler Auto Racing (ARST)
    • ZAR Junior Team (ARGTi)
  • Far East Associates Racing (ARST)
• Endurance racing operations
  • Mont Blanc Racing (LMC)
• Rallying operations
  • Everest Rally Team (Group B Rallycross)

Team and driver schedule

PMG's provisional team and driver schedule for 2018 is as follows:

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

Teams run by HPG
Series	Team name	Car	No	Driver	Rounds
ARNC	Peak Motorsport Canada		28	Ryan McReynolds	All
SANDWICH	Super Dragon FEAR	Swift-Toyota	26	Takuma Taki	All
			27	John Bean	All
IPCC	Ziegler Auto Racing	BMW M3	10	Cecep Sugiharto	All
			23	Julian Clark	All
	Far East Associates Racing	Honda Accord/Mazda6	90	Catalina Zhang (TBC)	TBA
			91	Ross Clark (TBC)	TBA
SEAT Leon Supercup	ZAR Junior Team	SEAT Leon	23	Kaitlyn Harris	All
			24	Romain Hadamard	All
Teams not run by HPG
Series	Team name (owner)	Car	No	Driver	Rounds
AR2.0	Driver Performance Laboratory (kevinbotz)		12	Skye Summers	All

Available Drivers: Ross Clark, Benjamin Foster-Thompson (TBC), Kelly Harris, Kristina Harris, Verna Klien, Ludvig Kristoffersen, Ragnar Larsen, Viktor Pasitchnjuk, Angelica Lopez (TBC), Steven Mackintosh (TBC), Tony Scrugham III, Dakota Summers (TBC), Randall Wade, Catalina Zhang, Alvin Ziegler