12-6-92 31-12-92 • Negotiations — which it is stressed are still very much at a preliminary stage - are taking place with a South American driver interested in contesting the Peter Jackson Formula Atlantic series next summer. The driver, who owns a Swift DB4, is also keen to bring his father to race a Formula Ford. Expatriate New Zealanders Steve Cameron and Dave McMillan also continue to show interest in bringing cars. 12-6-92 The running order of the Peter Jackson International Series has been changed again. It will begin at Baypark on December 28, then moves to Levels (Timaru) on January Invercargill (Teretonga) on January 10, Wigram on January 17, the New Zealand Grand Prix at Manfield on January 24, and the series final at Pukekohe on January 31. 10-7-92 EXT summer's international motor racing series will continue as planned despite the closing of Global Sports, which previously promoted the series. The president of the Motorsport Association, Mr Morrie Chandler, said co-ordination of the series would now become the responsibility of the recently formed Motor Race Board and that an announcement would be made soon naming the person who had been appointed to look after the running of the series specifically. Verstappen to con 23-8-92 Global pulls out By Lindsay Kerr The demise of Global Sport, which has successfull promoted the annual international summer Peter Jackson motor racing series, has resulted in a return to the ways of the 1970s and middle 80s. Rather than employ the services of another promotions company, the Motorsport Association of New Zealand has formed its own company to run the series. The early success of the Global-run series prompted many track owners to believe they could run procedings without the help of such an organisation. They now have their wish. At this point the new board, which has been silent about the forthcoming series, is believed to be planning a show that will be business as usual. While it is accepted that Global brought motor racing into a new generation, it has in the last couple of years tried to make the series too big in too many of the classes rather than concentrating on making one class the truly international one. 13-11-92 # With the deadline fast approaching, drivers still in the frame as potential entrants for the forthcoming Peter Jackson series are: Steve Cameron and Gene Pope, teaming with both a Reynard and a Swift; Team GR3, with Swifts for expatriate Kiwi Mike Garlick and perhaps Bryan Herta; and the McMillan team of Ralts for Stuart Crow and Charles Nearburg. Two American Transam cars are also expected for Chris Kniefel and Scott Lagasse. LATE deal has been put together which will see a young Dutchman, Jos Verstappen, contesting this season's Peter Jackson Series in one of Graeme Lawrence's Swift DB4S. Verstappen, aged 20, is a former Dutch, Belgian and European kart-racing titie-holder. In the past season, his rookie year in car racing, he won the Dutch and Benelux Opel Lotus championships. He also won two of the seven Opel Lotus Euroserie races he contested so clearly that he is a talent to be reckoned with. His first race in New zealand will be at Levels, Timaru, on Sunday and his Swift will carry backing from ICI Autocolour, Philips Car Stereo and Toyota. A last-minute change of allegiance will result in Canadian Graeme Peppler driving for Graham Lorimer's three-car Formula Ford team during the Dunlop New Zealand championship rounds that coincide with the Peter Jackson Series. It had been thought that Peppier would be driving with the Crawford Services team. Lorimer will now field Australian ace Russell Ingail, Peppier and Kiwi rookie Adrian Smith. Crawford's lineup will be Austrian Jochen Bauer, Brady Kennett and Chris Gate. Andrew Neale is still trying to put together a deal to race with the team, while Mike Davidson did a one-off deai to race at Baypark, his pians to drive a Formula Atlantic Rait RT4 with Graeme Lawrence having fallen through. test series 22-1 1-92 • Still no official news on the Peter Jackson series, but American visitors are expected to include Mike Garlick (Swift), Stuart Crow and Charles_ Nearburg (Ralt RT40s), Steve Cameron (Reynard), and Gene Pope (Swift). A deal to bring Bryan Herta has fallen through for a lack of finance.