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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2019
SPEEDWAY ACTION
THIS WEEKEND
2 THE GISBORNE HERALD Plea to drive New Supra safely as road revealed? toll heads to Leak gives us our best look 9-year high at Toyota’s 2019 coupe THE official summer holiday road toll intersection speed zones on the country’s period started on Christmas Day. highways. New Zealand became a great holiday These are electronic signs that detect pinball machine when motorists got in their when cars are turning into or out of a side cars and headed to the beach last week. road and signal a lower speed limit. When As the number of people slain in roads this happens, a sign will flash, reducing the accidents heads towards the highest in nine speed on the highway. years, holidaymakers are being urged to The measures are part of a Government take extra care on the country’s unforgiving injection of $1.4 billion to make 870km of roads. state highways and a similar length of local Last week, one man died after a ute roads safer. Once complete in three years, crashed into the Whanganui River. That the improvements are expected to prevent meant by last night, 373 people had died on 160 deaths and serious injuries every year. New Zealand roads — the same awful toll Associate Transport Minister Julie as at December 25 last year and six fewer Anne Genter, who has responsibility for people than last year’s total of 378 road road safety, said motorists would notice deaths. a “step change” away from the previous At its present rate, this year will be the Government’s focus on a few short sections fifth consecutive year the toll has risen, and of urban motorways to targeted safety the highest overall toll since 2009. Speed improvements on high-volume, high-risk played a part in nearly 30 percent of road roads. deaths. She said New Zealanders could also The New Zealand Herald is telling the expect to see more appropriate speeds on stories of families who have needlessly roads and changes to speed camera policy. lost loved ones and survivors of horrific “The purpose of the cameras is not to accidents. raise revenue, it’s to ensure people are People like Valerie May, who celebrated driving at safer speeds because that will save her 90th birthday this month. The Te Puke lives and reduce serious injuries,” Genter resident would probably not have made the said. milestone if a new median strip at SH1 The Government’s approach to road on the Brynderwyns in Northland had not safety has been criticised by Opposition prevented a car she was in from crossing transport spokesman Paul Goldsmith, who into the path of oncoming traffic. said a line of sticks separating traffic, with And Tina Jenneen, a mother of four who nowhere to pass and lower speeds, were was rescued screaming amid a jumble of poor substitutes for the four-lane highways crushed steel and inflated airbags in a head- National was building. by Matthew Hansen, NZ Herald Royce and Ferrari. And there are several on crash on SH2 between Tauranga and The Automobile Association is a reasons why we think these pictures are Waihi, where 42 people have been killed big supporter of the Government’s JUST over a week ago we mused that probably genuine. since 2000. “reinvigorated” approach to road safety. Toyota has been orchestrating and milking The biggest clue is that the car sits on The Herald is running an interactive Principal adviser Barney Irvine said the every ounce they can out of the next- the same backdrop as the race car revealed project showing when fatal and serious types of measures being proposed made generation Toyota Supra. in March. The car is also the same colour injuries occur during the Christmas holiday good sense and would make a meaningful It’s set to be revealed in Detroit as the one seen hooning around in the period, called “Our most fatal morning”. difference. next year, after a drawn-out process of teased Supra sounds video released just Using data from the NZ Transport “But looking at the wider highway camouflaged, blurred, and racing-spec over a week ago. And . . . come on, just Agency, the project shows more people network, there are big concerns for us teasers. Those have been bolstered by a look at it. It looks exactly like what we’ve die and are seriously injured on our roads about the lack of firm plans for new roads. whole host of homebrew renders from seen from all the other leaks, but sown between midnight and 6am on New Year’s No amount of safety retro-fitting will get today’s internet community, and a bucket together. Day than on any other day of the year. Since existing roads up to a standard of safety that of leaked images. Online responses to the renders are 2000, 12 people were killed and 33 suffered a new road would deliver,” he said. And this pair of images is probably the mixed. Most have taken the images as serious injuries after New Year celebrations. Auckland road policing manager greatest leak thus far. genuine, with a large portion seemingly This is nearly twice the next worse Inspector Scott Webb has confirmed officers The leaks stem from a member of disappointed with the two-door sports morning for deaths and serious injuries will focus this summer on the stretches of the Supra Mk V forum that goes by the car’s appearance. on our roads, Waitangi Day morning, on highway where they believe their efforts will name t93. They explain that these images Personally, I think this is a rather February 6. have the greatest impact on reducing deaths. were sent to them in an email by Toyota muscular looking beast. Yes, it shares NZTA safety director Harry Wilson After the reduction of 111 road policing Germany, as part of their newsletter and plenty of important bits with the also- said no modern country should accept the staff across New Zealand in 2016, NZTA updates mailing list. “Thank you for forthcoming BMW Z4, but you wouldn’t level of trauma on our roads that led to has boosted funding to get roading police joining the Toyota GR Supra waiting necessarily know it looking at both cars. 380 deaths and could leave a loved family numbers back up towards 1070. List,” said the email. The Supra’s two-toned splitter, side-skirts, member a tetraplegic or paraplegic. Webb said the police had four messages Others have since tried to also sign up and diffuser in particular give it a more He says a white line down the middle for motorists this summer: wear seat to the same newsletter, only to get images potent look — like something that’s meant of the road is no protection, which is why belts; don’t drink or take drugs; don’t get of the Supra in camouflage in place of the to be racing in FIA GT4. motorists will begin to notice new safety distracted, particularly by using a cellphone; above images. Thanks to images like these, there’s improvements, such as median and side and keep your speed down. — New Zealand We’ve covered plenty of accurate leaks unlikely to be much in the way of surprise barriers, rumble strips, wider shoulders and Herald this year, from Audi and BMW to Rolls- in store from Toyota.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2019 3
The master TRS
engine builder:
900,000 racing km
without failure
New Land Rover Defender
“moves the game along”
FORGET your two-door limited run Land Rover. While a utilitarian SUV
luxury coupe versions of the Range Rover, might appear something of an anomaly
the real crunch point for the venerable in a world with more interest in compact
Brit brand will be the next — utterly crossovers and EVs, there is still so much
different — Defender, due for release in brand DNA tied up in the Defender for
2020. Land Rover that it needs the next one to
While 2020 might still sound a long be wholeheartedly embraced, by both the
way off, in a matter of days it will be brand faithful and new buyers.
next year. So, it’s inevitable that we’re So, how do you please both parties?
starting to see spy shots of the new Land The latest spy shots have us a little
Rover Defender emerging as heavily concerned that the new buyers are
camouflaged test mules begin wending going to win out over those that have
their way through ‘real world’ streets. cherished the model for decades. Despite
We can only presume if there was a spy the heavy disguise, the Defender looks
photographer up a tree on the edge of to boast more of a modern silhouette
the Namib Desert, or in a kayak at a river than its venerable predecessor. There are
crossing in Yukon Territory, Northern curves apparent. The wheel arches look
Canada, we’d see pre-production to be integrated with the body, while the
Defenders in those environments too. familiar boxy elements that made the last
This vehicle is, without putting too fine Defender what it was, seem to have been
a point on it, a massive deal for Jaguar pared back considerably. — NZME
THE Northern Hemisphere’s motor 130kW to 160kW. This enables it to be
racing scene is in semi-hibernation and installed in the low-slung, single-seater race
many drivers, engineers and mechanics cars.
from the lower formulae will be travelling Gouk estimates with each engine
to New Zealand for the 2019 Toyota completing a maximum of 3000km a
Racing Series. season, there have been 900,000 racing
Over its 14 seasons, this series has kilometres without a failure.
established itself as a training ground not All of those kilometres have been at the
only for Kiwi drivers but those aspiring to hands of some aggressive drivers whose
Formula 1 and other international racing. mindset is to race from the first time
At last count, 12 TRS competitors the engines are fired up and who rarely
have gone on to drive for, or be a part of, show sympathy for the hundreds of parts
Formula 1. And more than 70 others have furiously spinning, bouncing and turning
progressed to racing in other parts of the behind their heads at some 8000rpm, and
world in all manner of cars. occasionally over as they try to extract the
It is remarkable that in all of those TRS maximum performance available.
seasons there has not been a single engine Of course, some ancillary parts have
failure related to build or component failure,
despite the best efforts of some of those
caused issues — oil pumps, hydraulics and
the like — but the engines have raced on Land-speed record-breaking
young chargers as they came to grips with
the challenging and competitive racing.
The TRS series of FT chassis have, since
regardless. After seven years of working
with Lynn Rogers, then four contracted
to Toyota Racing, in 2015 Gouk opened
V8 bike reimagined as e-bike
the beginning, used the 2ZZ-GE engine, David Gouk Race Engines, in Wiri, SPEAKING of updates that celebrate of the original V8 but replaces the petrol
historically used in the Celica and Corolla Auckland. the past (in this case the very distant engine with an 8-piece battery pack
range. Every one of those engines has been Sitting at one end of Gouk’s shop is the past), this has to be one of the best — arranged in the V formation. That’s right:
modified for racing and hand-built by one dynamometer where each engine is put and oddest — of the year, and it’s been rather than a V-Twin, it’s an E-twin.
person. through a rigorous test programme before saved for last. If the symmetrical sensuousness of the
Since the firm of Lynn Rogers being installed in the TRS FT50 chassis to Based on a 1907 blueprint for a land Hera catches your eye, you should also
Automotive was contracted to develop the be used by the next aspiring Lance Stroll, speed record-breaking V8-powered pay a visit to the Curtiss Motorcycles
original TRS engine, some 60 examples Lando Norris or Brendon Hartley. motorcycle created by an engineer called website and check out the other fossil-
have been used with more than 300 The sign above the door says “Excellence Glenn Curtiss, the Curtiss Hera is, fuel burning motorcycle models they
scheduled service rebuilds completed. Every is expected” and Gouk says: “That is exactly somewhat inevitably, an e-bike. But holy manufacture. This company has an
one of those engines, every piston, nut and what each and every engine has achieved.” leather helmet and racing goggles, does impressively left-field take on custom
pulley has been through the hands of David At some point a new engine will this e-bike look unlike anything else out cycles.
Gouk. inevitably be introduced to the TRS. Gouk, there? It’s like a steampunk holiday to the The Hera brings some 1907 brutalism
The race-prepared engine is still the a self-confessed perfectionist, is looking Bonneville Salt Flats. to the e-bike party. And we reckon the
basic engine unit but with a different oil forward to the challenge of developing The really cool thing is that Curtiss e-bike party will be all the better for it
delivery and dry sump system, electronic whatever comes along. Motorcycles is all set to produce this too. All going well, it will be available in
mapping and other modifications that bring — New Zealand Herald thing for paying customers. The Hera 2020. — New Zealand Herald
the power up from the original road-going bases itself almost entirely on the layout
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Aston Martin Valkyrie V12 will make 1000hp, last 100,000km
ASTON Martin has released the first 153.8bhp-per-litre) at 10,500rpm, structural cam covers — the majority of the with each party bringing a distinct clarity of
details of the naturally aspirated V12 before continuing on to a maximum engine’s internal components are machined vision that has proved essential in delivering
engine that will power the upcoming rpm figure of 11,100, numbers that are from solid material. These include Titanium an internal combustion engine way beyond
Valkyrie hypercar. unprecedented for a naturally-aspirated, conrods and F1-spec pistons. anything previously seen in a road car
Developed by Cosworth, the new emissions-compliant road car. Peak The result is an engine that weighs just application.”
powerplant has to meet ‘a simple, yet torque is 740Nm at 7000rpm. 206kg. In comparison, Cosworth’s last Performance of 1000hp (before hybrid
extraordinary brief ’ — to be the ultimate Aston Martin Valkyrie’s performance 3.0 litre V10 F1 engines weighed 97Kg. aids) and a 11,000rpm soundtrack isn’t
repression of the internal combustion figures will be further boosted by a Cosworth say if the same unit was scaled the only way the Aston Martin, Valkyrie
engine. And at first glance, it appears battery hybrid system, details of which up to 6.5 litres the same F1 engine would will shake up the hypercar, according to
Cosworth have done just that. will be revealed later. weigh 210kg. Cosworth.
The 6.5-litre V12 has a certified Aside from major castings — namely Bruce Wood, Cosworth Managing Unlike the powerplant in every other
peak power output of 1000bhp (or the block, cylinder heads, sump and Director, said of the project that the hypercar, the Cosworth V12 looks set to
naturally aspirated V12 engine is an perform well into its life without the need
immense source of pride for Cosworth. of some serious mechanical work.
“When we started talking about specifics Speaking with Car and Driver, Cosworth
of power, weight, emissions compliance and managing director Bruce Wood said that
durability combined with ever harder and the naturally-aspirated V12 should last
sometimes conflicting targets, we knew this for at least 100,000km before requiring a
would be a challenge like no other,” said rebuild.
Wood. “Our expectation is that at 100,000
“It’s been a fantastic partnership between kilometres, (the engine) would be replaced,”
Aston Martin, Red Bull and Cosworth, said Wood. — NZME
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Michael Schumacher is ‘not bedridden
or surviving on tubes’: reports
FORMULA 1 legend Michael incidentally, politely declined to answer
Schumacher is “not bedridden or surviving our enquiry as to whether he has visited
on tubes”, it has been claimed, as new his recuperating hero — one private man
details about his recovery emerge. acknowledging the privacy of another.
Friends and family have shed new light Max Verstappen, who holidayed with the
on the condition of the seven-time Formula Schumachers as a boy, owing to his father
One champ after a horror ski accident in Jos and Michael being contemporaries and
2013. friends, has emerged as the next potential
December 29 marks five years since the star of the track, even if his aggressive
most successful Formula One driver in driving has courted controversy as Michael’s
history, who will turn 50 five days later, fell ruthlessness once caused him to.
and hit his head while skiing in Meribel, in Most poignantly, Michael’s own son
the French Alps. Mick, who was at his father’s side aged 14
But Schumacher’s wife Corinna, whom when he hit that rock and suffered a brain
he married in 1995, has insisted on secrecy haemorrhage, is the F3 champion and has
over his condition, a request that has been signed to race for Prema in Formula Two,
faithfully observed by all around them. F1’s feeder series, next season. His future is
Friends don’t talk. If they do, they are no promising, with seats at Mercedes or Ferrari
longer friends. a possibility one day.
A few dog-walkers roam the quiet Mick, who is said to be as private as his
wooded paths outside the Schumacher father, never delivers medical bulletins to
house on the banks of Lake Geneva. outsiders, but last month he told Germany’s the building work began before the accident what German prosecutors described as a
Michael’s father Rolf, the former bricklayer RTL channel of his relationship with occurred and the new cottage was always ‘violation of his personal range of life’ and a
who ran go-karts at their local Kerpen track Michael before the accident. intended as a base for his widower father breach of privacy. The image never surfaced.
close to Cologne to support his boy’s career, “My dad asked if I wanted to do racing when he stayed. But we were recently given a glimpse
is one of them. professionally or whether we should just Apart from one comment in 2016 from inside Schumacher’s life, through the words
You can just hear golf balls pinging at do it for fun, as a hobby. I, of course, said I Schumacher’s German lawyer, Felix Damm, of an archbishop who is a confidant to
the club next door, but none of the locals wanted to do it professionally. confirming to a Hamburg court that the two popes. Dr Georg Ganswein, Prefect of
in Gland — a town of 13,000 situated “I always want to compare myself to the champion driver could ‘not walk’, further the Pontifical Household of Pope Francis
between Geneva and Lausanne — knows best, and my father is the best. He’s also my genuine updates have been hard to come by. and secretary of the retired Pope, Benedict
the latest medical situation of the superstar idol. I’m pleased if I can compare myself One leak was thwarted, with tragic XVI, was asked by Schumacher’s friend
who lives among them. to him. Many world champions compare consequences, in 2014. It came after and former Ferrari team principal, now
But Rolf, who visits Switzerland regularly themselves to my father. Even on days when Schumacher was transported from FIA president, Jean Todt, if he would visit
from home in Bonn, confirms that Michael the karting track was closed we’d go there University of Grenoble Hospital, where he Schumacher at home. He did so in 2016.
is inside, scotching rumours that the and we were allowed to do some laps. That had two life-saving operations and remained Speaking in the last few weeks to German
world’s first billionaire sportsman has been was always the best time.” for five months before coming out of his newspaper Bild, Ganswein revealed: ‘I
transferred to a £30 million holiday home But, in contrast to his son’s fast-evolving induced coma, to the University Hospital in first talked to Corinna Schumacher and
Corinna bought in Majorca this summer, or, career, Schumacher’s progress has, at best, Lausanne. her mother. Then a therapist brought
at least for now, to a specialist brain trauma been slow. Some of his medical records were stolen Michael Schumacher into the living room.
hospital in America. However, Sportsmail understands that and offered to media outlets for £40,000. I introduced myself and told him that I’m
Since the accident on a clear, sunny he is not bedridden. Nor is he existing The suspected thief, who worked for a secret fan, that I often watched his races,
morning in Meribel at an ‘off-piste on tubes. Yet it is believed he is receiving Rega, the air rescue company that moved and that I was fascinated by how someone
junction’, much has transpired in Formula extensive nursing and therapy care, which Schumacher, was arrested, only to be found can steer such a machine through any
One. Lewis Hamilton has overtaken has been estimated to cost more than hanged in his cell while awaiting interview. weather at such high speed.
Schumacher’s pole record, 83 to 68. But £50,000 a week. “We are at a loss for words and deeply “I greeted Michael and held his hands.
the former Benetton, Ferrari and Mercedes He is, it can be revealed, living with his shocked,” said Sabine Kehm, loyal They were warm. Some things words
great remains ahead on race wins (91 to 73) close family in the main body of his house spokeswoman for the Schumacher family, at cannot transport, but a touch can. Holding
and world championships (seven to five). rather than in an outbuilding that some the time. the hand of a sick person is something
Schumacher’s ardent fan Sebastian Vettel reports suggested had been constructed in The following year, a photograph taken deeply Christian that provides consolation
has moved to Ferrari but so far failed to add response to his injuries as a special medical at his home and smuggled out by a ‘friend’ and closeness. That was important to me.”
to the fourth title he won in 2013. Vettel, facility, a sort of hospital at home. In fact, was being hawked around for £1m, in — New Zealand Herald
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