Wellington Street Race

[Roger Dowding]

Folks, I'm really pleased to have been given the green light to write a book on the history of the Wellington Street Race. The event was first staged in 1985, with the last running in 1996. There were two races in 1987, and none in 1995.

The book will be a blow-by-blow account of each race, which a chapter dedicated to each.

I was wondering if anyone on here has old programmes and magazine reports from any of the races that I could use as part of my research?

I'm also wanting photos from any of the years the event took place.

The book will cover the main race/races, not the supports. It won't cover the Pukekohe event that followed either.

Steve looking forward to the book- interested though in this comment -
" The book will cover the main race/races, not the supports. "
There has been some video footage of the support race particularly the Sports Cars at one or two of the events.

Good luck with it all, I never went but remember them and the first one, 1985, a Young Guy working for me in Howick,went and we heard a lot about it afterwards..

Cheers

Roger D.

[Steve Holmes]

Steve looking forward to the book- interested though in this comment -
" The book will cover the main race/races, not the supports. "

Thanks Roger. By that I mean, there was a single main race for each year up until 1994 when it became multiple sprint races, which then continued for the final event in 1996.