Baird fastest in Porsche practise

Craig Baird MNZM driving the #1 ZM Mad Butcher Porsche 997 for Auckland Triple X Motorsport has set fastest time in practise for this weekend’s fourth round of the Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge being held near Timaru.

“We’ve got a good car for here – probably better balanced than when we were here last year,” said Baird who finished second to team-mate David Reynolds the last time the pair raced at the Levels venue.

“But there is nothing in the times really – he who got a cleaner lap got the better chance of a quicker time.”

Trailing Baird by a mere 0.085 of a second, Reynolds (#8 Hampsta Indians bar Porsche 997) is intent on repeating his last year’s clean-sweep winning performance. Placed behind defending champion and current points leader Craig Baird, Reynolds says the driving the 2.4 kilometre circuit requires a different tactic to other race tracks.

Following threats of rain, changeable conditions have kept the drivers focused on cycling tyres to cope with all weathers for the three race programme contested over the Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday morning qualifying sets the grid for the afternoon 12-lap race, followed by a second 12-lap race Sunday morning and the top-six reverse grid 16-lap race in the afternoon.