Pukekohe Nissan Mobil 500 – 13 th December 1992 – Drivers Owen Evans/Bill Farmer. Finished in 3 rd place overall and 1 st in class on 136 of 146 laps ‘Evans European’ sponsored #7 Porsche 911 – Qualified 7 th of 38 starters. Wellington Nissan Mobil 500 – 6 th December 1992 – Drivers Owen Evans/Bill Farmer. ‘Evans European’ sponsored #7 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 RS 3200cc – Qualified 12 th of 32 entries. Pukekohe Nissan Mobil 500 – 8 th December 1991 – Drivers Owen Evans/Bill Farmer. Completed 130 of the 144 laps recorded by the winner. Finished in 9th place overall and 2 nd in Class B to the Nigel Arkell/Dave Slater Porsche 911. Car – Bill Farmer’s Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 RS 3200cc – Qualified 11 th of 42 cars to start. Wellington Nissan Mobil 500 – 1st December 1991 – Drivers Owen Evans/Bill Farmer. He became the holder of the NZ Land Speed Records from 1996 and while the ‘Flying one-quarter kilometre’ time was taken from him in 2012, he still holds ‘The Castrol Trophy’ for the NZ Land Speed Record over both the flying mile and flying kilometre.Īn outline of some of Owen’s Porsche racing is as follows:. He drove Porsche cars with great success in a wide variety of sprint and endurance races. Owen is renowned as a driver of considerable skill. The Team cars, with their distinctive teal green ‘Lighting Direct’ livery, became synonymous with Porsche reliability, consistency and success on race tracks throughout New Zealand.

Owen stayed with Bill until he retired from racing “around 2008”. In the 1990s Owen formed an enduring partnership with Bill Fulford that in turn led to the highly successful ‘Lighting Direct’ Racing Team. In 1996 Owen helped to qualify the two Farmer and Bagnall GT2 LM cars for the 1996 Le Mans 24 hour race, but an accident just prior to Le Mans prevented Owen from driving in the race.

Owen also drove Bill’s Porsche GT2 Le Mans Turbo in one round of the Global GT series.

911 by Chris Owen