Auckland Motorsport

Hi Guys,

As a few of you have already heard we had a tragedy strike our group in the early hours of Saturday Morning.

A first time CannonBaller named Shaun Fitzpatrick was killed in a car crash at around 2.30am in the morning.

He was coming home from a night out and when turning at an intersection was "T-Boned" by a 15 year old in a stolen Subaru.

Our thoughts go out to Shaun's family as this is such a horrible thing to happen to such an awesome young person, I personally meet him on Friday afternoon to hand him his sticker pack and get his entry form.... We talked for around 10 minutes, he was super excited for his first run.

The Herald (as per usual) twisted the story to make it put a bit of a bad spin on the event which is a shame considering we are really about driver safety and vehicular fun, luckily the guys at TV3 where actually more interested in reporting the news and not selling papers, I have attached the video below.

Had we known on the day the details of what had happened we would have had a minutes silence for him, I'm hoping after seeing this video we all will have our own little minute for him.

Rest in peace Shaun.

Auckland Motorsport has been operating a few years now and have managed to take the Motorsport Scene by the horns and come out on top. Our first New Zealand CannonBall Run was one of the biggest street legal events held in the country and bought together every type of car fanatic including Exotic Supercar lovers and Japanese Drifters.

Here at Auckland Motorsport we pride ourselves in thinking outside the box. Our events are always original, unique and have a fair share of surprises. 

New Zealand has a huge motorsport industry, its competitors are some of the best talent in the world, but there is not much out there for your average enthusiast. Sure if your car is race prepped with a roll cage, bucket seats, fire suit and etc you can race on the track but what about the young guys with a limited budget. To them their cars are performance cars. 

We are out to provide track, drift and street legal race orientated events for a safe driving alternative to illegal street racing and making it fun at the same time. There is a lot of controversy at the moment with the whole "Boy Racer Act" and all the fines and penalties that are involved when getting caught with one of these new laws. Our intention is to address the problem at its source, by running legal and cheap motorsport orientated and related events for car enthusiasts. There are a lot of drivers that want to race their cars, so why not direct them to an event that is safe, and legally organised with police approval and participation. Let’s face it there are big kids out there too so our events are not limited to just “Boy Racers”. 

With new and innovative events coming up from us be sure to stay tuned...