Peak Motorsport Group

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

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 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, most notably High Performance Racing in F1RSTC and RRC and Harris Finance Racing in Lupo GTI.

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:
    • Flag of Canada svg.png Summers Group LLC. (Edward Summers) - 100%

High Performance Group

  • 2006-2017:
    • Flag of New Zealand svg.png Harris Family Trust (Craig Harris) - 33.3%
    • Flag of the United States svg.png Douglas Media Group Inc. (Raymond Douglas) - 33.3%
    • Flag of the United States svg.png Spearman Industries (Dominic Spearman) - 33.3%

Peak Motorsport Group (merged)

  • 2017-:
    • Flag of Canada svg.png Summers Group LLC. (Edward Summers) - 50%
    • Flag of New Zealand svg.png Harris Family Trust (Craig Harris) - 25%
    • Flag of Germany svg.png Ziegler Holdings AG (Alvin Ziegler) - 12.5%
    • Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Clark Corporation Ltd. (Roger Clark) - 12.5%

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 Coventry (Peak Aeroracing Engineering), Berlin (Ziegler Auto Racing), Vancouver (Peak Motorsport Canada) and Grenoble (Mont Blanc Racing).

The group currently run five racing teams - Peak Aeroracing Engineering, their main open-wheel team; Peak Motorsport Canada, the second-tier open wheel team; the Mont Blanc Racing endurance racing squad; the Everest Rally Team; and the Ziegler Auto Racing touring car operation. They also are part-owners of Far East Associates Racing in IPC.

Driver management

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

Current series

Teams run by PMG in 2018.

Open wheel
Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png Peak Aeroracing Engineering

Touring car/trucks
Flag of Germany svg.png Ziegler Auto Racing

Flag of China svg.png Far East Associates Racing (part-owned)

Flag of Canada svg.png Peak Motorsport Canada

Endurance racing
Flag of France svg.png Mont Blanc Racing

Rally and rallycross
Flag of New Zealand svg.png Everest Rally Team