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Onboard with Craig Baird at Highlands NZ

Craig Baird

Craig Baird spent last weekend behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 R while racing in the Australian GT Championship at Highlands Motorsport Park in New Zealand. We’ve got two videos to show you the good and bad points about motor racing.

First up Baird carves his way to 1 minute 33 second lap during qualifying, claiming pole position and easily beating his original 1:41.9 lap record along the way.

In the second clip Baird cops a tap from a slower car and crashes off the track. As you’ll see this impact happened at the worst possible place on the figure-eight style circuit. Thankfully, everyone walked away unharmed.

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Craig Baird sets Highlands NZ lap record

Craig Baird sets Highlands Motorsport Park lap record

New Zealand has a brand new motorsport facility, it’s called the Highlands Motorsport Park. Self-described as “an exclusive members-only facility”, it’s ideally placed around 50km away from Queenstown on the South Island.

Highlands will be used for its first major event when it hosts Round 6 of the 2013 Australian GT championship in November.

The grand opening of the track was held over Easter and Craig Baird was on hand in a McLaren MP4-12C GT3 to set the first official lap record. You can watch video of that, and more, after the break.