Canterbury motorsport identity Andrew Neale has announced that his highly successful motor racing team, Neale Motorsport, will be taking a new focus this season, developing and training drivers and team personnel while tackling both the New Zealand Formula Ford Championship and the South Island Formula Ford Race Series.
Neale established Neale Motorsport just two seasons ago and since that time the team has experienced phenomenal success. They won the 2012/2013 New Zealand Formula Ford Championship on debut before stepping up to the ultra competitive Toyota Racing Series last year and in a stunning run of success also took that championship in their debut season with all three team drivers winning races, the only team in the series to achieve that.
Neale Motorsport will run three cars from their Christchurch base, one for sixteen-year-old Formula First graduate Taylor Cockerton of Auckland, another for fourteen-year-old Caleb Cross of Christchurch and another, their lease car, a Van Diemen Stealth, for Marcus Armstrong of Christchurch.
Cockerton will drive the ex-James Munro/Jamie Conroy Mygale SJ08A, the car that has won the last two National Formula Ford titles. Cross will pilot a newly imported Mygale SJ13 while there is also a Van Diemen their Stealth lease car which will be raced at the first three rounds of the South Island Series by Armstrong. Neale Motorsport is hoping to attract an international driver for the Stealth chassis for the January races. The team has a good relationship with and support from Greg Woodrow and Mygale Australia
The opening round of the NZ Formula Ford Championship takes place at Timaru International Motor Raceway over this weekend – 14/15 November.
