About Triple X Motorsport:
In two seasons of competition, Auckland based Triple X Motorsport have an enviable two New Zealand Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Championship titles, the New Zealand Grand Prix crown and lap records at all of the major race circuits in the country.
Now half-way through their third season they again hold the overall Porsche title lead and introduce three Toyota Racing Series cars at the season Teretonga season opener.
The Porsche lineup includes Craig Baird MNZM (ZM/Mad Butcher), Daniel Gaunt (Placemakers/Hampsta), Courtney Letica (Altherm), Shane McKillen (VnC Cocktails/Juice Bar) with David Reynolds (Hampsta/Indians Bar) making a late return, taking the place of Michael Morton, the team's entertainment director. Christchurch's Paul Kelly also runs under the team umbrella - making it six Porsche GT3 Cup type 997 cars.
Whangarei's Scott Harrison joins the team as a development driver in the Suzuki Swift Cup series with Earl Bamber, Stefan Webling and Chris Wootton in the three Toyota Racing Series cars.
Each race series use identical specification cars - excercising team nous and driver ability to win championships.
Triple X Motorsport team utilise the very best in personnel and management to back-up their intention of continually dominating New Zealand’s championship table.
Using Porsche’s pinnacle of innovation and epitome of development, they lead the way with performance and reliability. These examples of precision engineering are all capable of 270km/h – that’s 75metres a second. 420 horsepower from the 3.6 litre six cylinder Boxer engine, six-speed sequential transmission - bred for performance, their durability is unmatched by any other.
Just for the record so far: The team locked up first (Craig Baird), second (David Reynolds) and third (Daniel Gaunt) in the 2008-09 New Zealand Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Championship. We won 19 out of 21 races, pole position and lap records at every round, Hard Charger of the year (Craig Baird, for passing the most cars), Rookie of the year (Courtney Letica). Plus Rodney Forbes and Shane McKillen in the Tissot Challenge finished first and third respectively for non professional drivers.
We entered a Toyota Racing Series car for the New Zealand Grand Prix at Manfeild. Driver Daniel Gaunt won the 100th Toyota Series Race on his way to winning the 2009 New Zealand Grand Prix.
That has led to a three-car lineup for the 2010 Toyota Racing Series with drivers Earl Bamber (Wanganui), Stefan Webling (New Plymouth) and Chris Wootton (Brisbane).
Craig Baird MNZM was also named in the 2010 New Year honours list, for services to motorsport, capping off a season that included his 21st New Zealand championship title. Craig also received the prestigeous Jim Clark Trophy at the 2009 MotorSport New Zealand awards night and also recieved a Special Motorsport New Zealand Citation Award in recognition of being NZ's most prolific and successful racing driver.
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