The Team Driver: Lochie Taylor Pit Crew: Kelly Glover (financial controller) Nigel Shepherd (SRD titanium engine specialist) Brian Day (race engineer) Hi there my name is Lochie Taylor. I’m a 28 year old aircraft Engineer who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. I enjoy most forms of motorsport and also enjoy the outdoors, fishing and hunting when I get a chance. As well as hanging out with family and friends. I first got the bug for karting and superkart racing around the year 2000. This was when I went to watch a sprint kart club day at the Christchurch kart club (Carrs road) and was blown away back then at the excitement of the sport and wanted in on the fun. I looked at 2 karts that took my eye, the first being a KT100 direct drive and tested it and was quite a thrill, the other being a early model water cooled RM 250cc 2 stroke which un be wise to the long arm of the law test drove this beast down a certain quiet winding road going into a local speedway nearby and it blew me away with the amount of power it had at the time. So it was to be the 250cc open sprint kart and 250 national for road racing. I felt it was a great kart to learn from as it was like a wild beast to get round the track, it was after a year or two I decided to stick to the road racing as you could go a lot faster and it wasn’t so hard on the body or the apprentice wage at the time. After a season of superkart racing only I updated the chassis with a later model kiwi kart and some long overdue half decent brakes and new style body work and lots of long nights in the workshop out came the mark II RM 250 and achived some good results until I had a tyre blow out onto the straight at the nz grand prix not even getting a full lap in. I took a year off racing to decide what I was going to do and before long a Yamaha TZ V twin superkart came up for sale so I took it. It was my first proper long circuit superkart with a stack load more power than the single cylinder 250 I was used to driving. Learnt a lot from it for a season until after the 2008 nz champs decided to go all out and buy a factory PVP from Denmark which I'm currently running today and compared to the past superkart we ran there is no comparison between the 2. I am looking forward to up and coming events and will keep ya all posted with our results as we are the first PVP engine and chassis in new Zealand. With the results we have seen in a short time the potential is impressive. If you have any questions to do with superkarting or are looking at getting into it feel free to contact us as we are pleased to help if we can.