Growing up a farmer’s son, he learned to operate tractors, trucks and excavators from age 7. After military service and some years in international security work, he returned to New Zealand. Having owned many performance cars and MX bikes, a major knee injury forced a move to caged competition. After competing in a scratch built rotary escort and many drives in a BDA escort leading to the purchase of his current class 10 WRX extreme Subaru competing in Targa, Superlap and Northland Car Club events.

Shane Blucher - 2007 Subaru Impreza WRX Sti Spec C

Growing up a farmer’s son, he learned to operate tractors, trucks and excavators from age 7. After military service and some years in international security work, he returned to New Zealand. Having owned many performance cars and MX bikes, a major knee injury forced a move to caged competition. After competing in a scratch built rotary escort and many drives in a BDA escort leading to the purchase of his current class 10 WRX extreme Subaru competing in Targa, Superlap and Northland Car Club events.

2007 Subaru Impreza WRX Sti Spec C:

The WRX was built new by Possum Bourne Motorsport as spare for the Motor Image Team to FIA group N specifications for the Asia Pacific rally championships but was never used. Purchased by the Jansen family in Christchurch for Paul to compete in on tarmac then Tony Gosling, of Stadium Cars bought the Subaru to complete in two rally’s before Shane purchased it in 2015 with only 3000km on it and unscratched. The WRX had not competed until Targa Hawkes Bay 2017 where the gearbox failed landing off a bridge in stage ten. HiTech Motorsport upgraded it to compete in class 10 – the extreme open 4WD class.