For the Public- Come and watch Classic bikes ranging from Vintage (Pre-1931) to Pre-95 Superbikes circulate at Manfeild! Entry is free and families are welcome. Walk around the open pits and meet the competitors and get a better look at the machinery. If you like what you see come and join us next time! Camping is only available to competitors.

Garages
Pit Garages will be able to be booked online or by calling the track on 06 323 7444. Watch this space for a link once it becomes available to us.

Camping
On-site camping over the weekend is allowed for this event for competitors and officials on Friday and Saturday nights. Manfeild kindly allows NZCMRR competitors and officials to stay onsite in non-self contained vehicles (i.e. vans and tents). Please help us preserve this arrangement and keep your behaviour in check! Camping will be $10 per person per night (unpowered), or $15 per night (powered). Book your site at https://book.manfeild.co.nz/event90. When making your booking, you are required to provide one main contact name, your role if you are an official or volunteer, your phone number, and your email, along with the names of anyone else camping with you.

EVENT ENTRY FEES are $360 standard, or $150 for South Islanders coming up to race. Transponders will again not be charged for to help you with your entry.

CHANGE TO PIT MOVEMENTS: we are introducing a new system around how bikes enter and exit pitlane at Manfeild for the first time at this event. Further details will be communicated prior to the event to all entrants.

EVENT SCHEDULE;

Friday, 25th October:
There will be a track-run track day on Friday 25th. Entries will initially open solely to NZCMRR members, event competitors and all racing sidecars. The track hopes that enough riders will enter so that they will not have to open it to the general public too. They will aim to run four speed groups; Slow, Medium, Fast, and Sidecar. Members may enter a bike for the track day that is not entered for the Spring Classic. This can be booked at MANFEILD TEST DAY - Friday, 25th October 2024 (NZCMRR/NZSCA members only).

Saturday, 26th October:
7.15-8.30am Sign-on and machine examination
8.30am Rider's briefing
9.00am One round of practice/qualifying
1 round of racing for Championship points - all classes
NZCMRR Manfeild Cup races
At the end of the day, we hope to hold a gold-coin BBQ at the Car Club Rooms opposite the scrutineering shed. We need a volunteer to help us out with this! If you think you can help, please contact secretary@nzcmrr.com.

Sunday, 27th October:
8.30am Saturday prizegiving and short rider's briefing
9.00am 3 rounds of racing for Championship points – all classes.

The NZCMRR Committee is pleased to announce the dates and format for the 2025 APS Classic Motorcycle Racing Festival, which will take place at Manfeild over the first weekend of February next year. This will be a THREE DAY EVENT, run entirely by the NZCMRR.

Practice and qualifying will be held on the Friday. Riders must qualify on the Friday in order to take part in the racing which will be held on Saturday and Sunday. 

Key dates for your calendar are:
Friday January 31st – Two rounds of practice, one round of qualifying
Saturday February 1st – Championship Points and Trophy Racing
Sunday February 2nd – Championship Points Racing

There will be a preferential entry period to allow regular NZCMRR participants seven days to secure an entry before entries open more widely.

The preferential entry period will be open only to Club members active in the 2024 Championship Rounds – that means entrants who have competed at, or been an official volunteer at, two or more other NZCMRR championship rounds throughout 2024 (excluding the 2024 APS Classic Festival). We will also reserve some entries for invited riders/bikes and for riders joining us from CAMS in the South Island.

If you cannot race enough this year to qualify for preferential entry please consider volunteering. There are always jobs to be done to keep the racing going!

Entries will open in November and close in early December.

To help us fairly manage the huge demand from riders, entries will open and close much earlier than previous years. Exact dates will be advertised in late September.

This is necessary to allow time for us to complete the huge amount of admin work required to process all entries and will allow our volunteer team more time plan an event that creates a great experience for both riders and spectators.

We will run a similar waitlisting system as this year. Once any race group is booked out, entrants will be placed in Regularity Class pending a space becoming available in their appropriate race group.

The NZCMRR Committee is working through a long list of improvements and new ideas for the 2025 event. Keeping costs reasonable for entrants is high on that list. Other key areas include pit allocation and facilities, maximising track time for riders, camping, after-hours competitor access and many more.

Early warning - for health & safety reasons, to create space for everyone and to ensure we put on a great show for our paying guests, we will need to significantly reduce the number of vehicles and race trailers which are parked in the immediate pit area. 

We will be running 8 Race Groups (Classic 250, 350, 500 & Open, Post Classic Senior, F2, Junior, and Sidecars) and 1 Regularity Group, with a maximum of 40 on track in each group. Race Groups will be limited to 40 bikes on grid. Entry information, gate & camp passes and vehicle passes will be posted out 3 weeks prior to the event.

Event souvenir programmes will be on sale at the gate along with event merchandise. Walk through the pits to meet the racers and see their bikes, visit the Britten pits, and other displays.

Only vehicles with 2025 Pit passes will be allowed into the Pits area. There is no track walk!

We’re looking forward to hosting another amazing APS Classic Festival with you all in 2025, please keep an eye out for future updates.

Go to APS Classic for more information about events future and past, plus links to buy Festival tickets, book spectator camping at the adjacent Manfeild Stadium, and to enter the Festival 'ride to win'.