‘Pete the Pirate’ Goodwin, with ‘Ken-Doll’ Dunlop are current NZSBK National Sidecar Champions. Competing as Team Pirate, they are looking to retain the Championship in the 2019 racing year. However, Ken-Doll is taking a year out, and the new team passenger is Louise Blythe. Pirate Pete raced in sidecars for five years in the United Kingdom, before moving to New Zealand. Before that he raced in the Grass-Track Sidecar class for seven years. Team Pirate has close ties with Carl Cox Motorsport.

Peter Goodwin & Louise Blythe - 2008 Suzuki K8 1000cc

‘Pete the Pirate’ Goodwin, with ‘Ken-Doll’ Dunlop are current NZSBK National Sidecar Champions. Competing as Team Pirate, they are looking to retain the Championship in the 2019 racing year. However, Ken-Doll is taking a year out, and the new team passenger is Louise Blythe. Pirate Pete raced in sidecars for five years in the United Kingdom, before moving to New Zealand. Before that he raced in the Grass-Track Sidecar class for seven years. Team Pirate has close ties with Carl Cox Motorsport.

2008 Suzuki K8 1000cc:

The LCR chassis is made in Switzerland by Louis Christian and holds a 2008 Suzuki engine 1000c GSXR. The rear slick tyre is 10 inches wide by 14 inches in diameter. If the track is wet, then they switch to a patterned, treated tyre. The front tyre is an 8 inches wide by 13 inches in diameter slick. The sidecar tyre is 10 inches wide by 13 inches in diameter. The fuel used is 98 octane and the gear change is a semi-automatic button change. The Suzuki offers an integrated brake-system operated by the left foot only and a conventional wrist-operated throttle.