{"id":439995,"date":"2026-01-27T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:02:11","slug":"evans-special-honour-for-tim-miles-memorial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439995\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans\u2019 special honour for Tim Miles Memorial Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2544-Jaxon-Evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JAXON Evans<\/a> will take part in the Tim Miles Memorial Race aboard none other than the late Kiwi\u2019s own wings-and-slicks car.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was invited by the Miles family to drive the Swift DB4 Formula Atlantic. It was once upon a time raced by Jos Verstappen, father of Formula 1 superstar Max, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/supercars-sale-broker-buys-ex-verstappen-car\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was purchased by Miles in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Miles tragically passed away last July.<\/p>\n<p>In his honour will be a Formula Atlantic race this weekend at Highlands as part of the NAPA 70th New Zealand Grand Prix festivities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super honoured to even be asked to drive the car,\u201d said Evans, who will co-drive with Walkinshaw TWG Racing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2748-Ryan-Wood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wood<\/a> in the 2026 Supercars enduros.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jos-Verstappen-Tim-Miles-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-166940\"  \/>The Swift DB4 Formula Atlantic. Pic: Supplied<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something completely new to me, but I knew Tim had a lot of fun driving it so I\u2019m sure I will be the same \u2013 though I am hoping I fit!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing back in New Zealand is always a pleasure and to go back to Highlands is especially cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving family and friends here together, making a weekend of it, is going to be pretty special too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another former Supercars full-timer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a> will appear on the NZGP support card in TA2.<\/p>\n<p>The headline act will be the Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Trophy field, among which is Wood himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAXON Evans will take part in the Tim Miles Memorial Race aboard none other than the late Kiwi\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-439995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}