JIMCO'S POWELL IS 2008 OFFROAD RACING NATIONAL CHAMPION

Christchurch racer takes first championship at Full Throttle

Media release
26 October 2008   

Christchurch racer Daniel Powell, a newcomer to the sport’s top unlimited class, has won the 2008 Asset Finance New Zealand Offroad Racing National Championship.

At the final round, raced over two days of Labour Weekend at Manukau, Powell held on through a wet and miserable day of short course racing to stay in contention for the title, and then went out from pole position for Sunday’s 163 km endurance race to take second overall and second in class behind Beachlands racer Neville Smith.

The event was part of Manukau’s Full Throttle motorsport weekend, which also includes auto shows and the official start of the 2008 Targa road rally.

The combined results at the Iveco/Elf final round were enough to hand Powell the title.  His car, an American Jimco single-seater powered by a 3.5-litre twin-turbo Nissan V6, was engineered by 2007 national champion Andrew Thomason.  It is the second time a Jimco has won the national championship, and there are now three Jimco cars active in the sport in New Zealand.

JIMCO Continues it's Domination over the Multiple Classes:

 October 5th 2008
 South Australian Off Road Racing Association  --  Baroota Enduro
 Class 1 & Overall           1st Hayden Bentley
 
 
 September 29th 2008
 Australia --  Hunter Rivmasta Off Road 200
 Class 1 & Overall         1st Bruce Chapman (Champion Series)
 
 
 September 27th 2008
 BITD Bilek Silver State 300
 Class 1500 & Overall      1st Sam Berri
 Class 1000                    1st Kyle Conlon & Steve Eugenio  (3 in a row in BITD)
 
 
 September 6th 2008
 SCORE Primm 300
 Class 1             1st ARMIN SCHWARZ & Martin Christenson
 Class 10           1st Bekki & Adam Wik
 
 
 August 21-23rd 2008
 Vegas to Reno
 Class 1500        1st Gary / Mark Weyhrich
 Class 1000        1st Kyle Conlon & Steve Eugenio  (2 in a row in BITD)
 3rd Brandon Dawson
 Class 2000        3rd Daniel McMillin
                 

JIMCO'S Take the TOP 4 Positions in the LAND Down UNDER - June 10, 2008: David Fellows was crowned "King of the Desert!" David Fellows and Andrew Kittle are the winners of the 2008 Tattersall's FINKE Desert Race. They dominated the race, winning the Prologue on Saturday, as well as Stage 1 on Sunday. The Toyota TRD Kittle Turbo V6 JIMCO ran flawlessly for the entire event.

Chris Coulthard and Robert Hawker in their Chevrolet V8 JIMCO finished second overall in this race, only a mere one minute and ten seconds behind the overall winner, Fellows.

Brad Prout drove his single-seat Chevrolet V8 powered JIMCO to third overall, while the team of Terry Rose and Hartwig finished fourth in their unlimited JIMCO.