One of the hardest working racers in New Zealand, Simon Evans has honed his craft across many domestic racing categories since graduating from the Kart track. Championship glory didn’t happen immediately, but that changed in 2015 where Evans took Nine wins from Eleven races to dominate and win the V8 SuperTourer title, he’s since become a two-time NZ Touring Cars Champion, competed all over the world and in 2020 was crowned championship in the Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy category, a support category for the global Formula E championship.

ABOUT

Following his formative years in Karting, Simon progressed to Formula Ford, Suzuki Swifts, Porsche GT3 Cup and NZV8s. While earlier career results didn’t reflect it, Simon had the fundamentals to be a champion. 2014 was a turning point for a maturing Evans and on track exuberance was now more balanced with race craft. In 2014, Evans claimed seven podium finishes and finished runner up behind four-time Bathurst 1000 winner, Greg Murphy.

The following year, Evans would obliterate the V8 SuperTourer field, taking nine wins in twelve races and convincingly winning the championship. That dominance would also carry through to the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 NZ Touring Car championships which he also won.

The domestic success kick started an exciting international career driving in the Chinese-based FRD LMP3 Series and the one-make Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy series where Evans proved himself against a global field and in front of a global audience, securing the championship in 2020.

2021 SEASON RESULTS

With international driving duties on the backburner, Evans looked to the exciting domestic TR86 one-make series in 2021 as an affordable and hotly contested challenge. Evans enjoys nothing more than the door-handle to door-handle proximity of tin top racing that enables drivers to be aggressive on track and his years of this style racing served him well in the TR86. Along with competing, Evans also undertook a mentoring role for Rookie, Marco Giltrap, who went on to be the TR86 Rookie of the year.

The season was one of the most competitive in TR86 history with Evans battling hard all season with experienced competitor Rowan Shepherd. The Championship would eventually come down to the final race, Evans won the race, but Shepherd finished second to ultimately take the championship points lead by a mere 5 points.

Evans will head into the 2022 season eager to go one better.

“The racing last year was just brilliant, and it looks like it is going to be even better this coming season with another bunch of talented young guys and girls added to the mix, a bigger field and the reigning champion as the benchmark for everyone.”