Peak Motorsport Group
This article is about the group itself. For the racing arm, see High Performance Racing
The High Performance Group (abbreviated to HPG) is a New Zealand motorsport consortium.
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Formation and ownership
HPG is owned by businessmen Raymond Douglas, Craig Harris, and Dominic Spearman through their companies the Douglas Media Group, Harris Finance Limited, and Spearman Industries LLC. The group was formed by Spearman and Douglas with Harris buying into the group later on.
Operations
The High Performance Group are based in Auckland, New Zealand. They have a racing operation, known as High Performance Racing and a driver management arm, known as High Performance Driver Talent Management.
Racing operations
The High Performance Group fully owns and manages High Performance Racing. HPR currently compete in the Lupo GTI championship, the F1RSTC, the RRC, and the RRT. They are the official factory Mazda team in the F1RSTC, and also in the RTCC from 2017 onwards. They are also supported by Ford in the RRC and RRT.
2017 plans
The group will have a new structure from 2017 as follows:
Overall group: Peak Motorsport Group
- Touring car team: BurgerFuel Mazdaspeed Racing (RTCC)
- Rally team: John Deere Everest Ford Rally Team (RRT)
- Endurance racing/GT team: Glacier Mont Blanc Racing (ACO Le Mans)
- Engine divison: Peak Motorsport Engines
- Driver management divison: Peak Driver Talent
Major sponsors: Mazda, Ford, Harris Finance, John Deere, BurgerFuel
Minor sponsors: Peak Antifreeze, Rislone Engine Treatment, Spies Hecker, Fonterra, Video Ezy
Team and driver schedule
2016
HPG's team and driver schedule for the current 2016 Reject World Race Series season is as follows:
2017
HPG's provisional team and driver schedule for the 2017 Reject World Race Series season is as follows:
From 2017, HPR will be known as Peak Motorsport, with the rallying/rallycross operation known as Everest Rally Team.
The new endurance racing team will be known as Glacier Mont Blanc Racing.
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 |
| ACO Le Mans Cup (2017) | pi314159 |  / Glacier Mont Blanc Racing
|
Onroak LMP1-Zytek
|
3 | Sébastien Bourdais
|
All |
 Vic Sunset
| ||||||
 Ragnar Larsen
| ||||||
| 24 | Randall Wade
| |||||
| Serge Blanco
| ||||||
 J.C. Wolf
| ||||||
| Harris Finance GT
|
 2017 Porsche 991
|
25 | Kaitlyn Harris
| |||
| Kelly Harris
| ||||||
 Angelica Lopez
| ||||||
| Lupo GTI Championship (2017) | Rated | Harris Finance Racing
|
VW Lupo GTI
|
23 | Kristina Harris
|
All |
| Reject Rally Trophy (2017) | Biscione | John Deere Everest Rally Team
|
Ford Fiesta RRT
|
23 |  Vern Fraser
|
All |
| 24 |  Hugo Carvalho
| |||||
| Rejects Touring Car Championship (2017) | pasta_maldonado | BurgerFuel Mazdaspeed Racing
|
 Mazda 6
|
3 | Alvin Ziegler
|
All |
| 55 |  Julian Clark
| |||||
| Teams not run by HPG | ||||||
| Series (season) | Series organiser | Team name (owner) | Car | No | Driver | Rounds |
Drivers available to race for other teams: Verna Klien, Catalina Zhang, Kaitlyn Harris, Kelly Harris, Angelica Lopez.
Other operations
Driver management
Current drivers managed by High Performance Driver Talent Management are:
| Drivers | |
|---|---|
| Hugo Carvalho
|
Kristina Harris
|
| Julian Clark
|
Verna Klien
|
| Randall Wade
|
Ragnar Larsen
|
| Vern Fraser
|
Angelica Lopez
|
| Kaitlyn Harris
|
 Catalina Zhang
|
| Kelly Harris
|
Alvin Ziegler
|
Engines
HPR supply their own engines through a subsidiary, High Performance Engines Limited.
