Drift cars, stock cars, vintage cars, utes, F5000’s, motorcycles, and a Civic Type-R all racing up a racetrack style driveway in picturesque New Zealand? Yes, please! Welcome to Leadfoot Festival 2018…

Leadfoot is quickly becoming one of New Zealand’s premier Motorsport events. A nice mix between the vintage style of Goodward, and the hill climb of Pykes Peak, this event brings together all era’s and forms of motor racing for one weekend of motorsport, music, festivities & fun. Once again in 2018, Link ECU just had to be a part of the action. Our engine management devices and accessories are widely used in a huge variety of engines, and we were excited to see just how many vehicles over the weekend (both entered in competition, and driven to Hahei for display) were utilizing Link engine management.

Situated just over an hour’s drive from Auckland airport, the trip to Rod’s property is well worth it to see such stunning cars not just on display, but actively being raced up the one kilometre long strip of beautifully winding tarmac. Link’s official partnership with this event further extends our support of motorsport worldwide beyond your average race track or drag strip. As always, the purple trade stand caught the attention of many drivers, and of course, the fans who rolled in throughout the two days.

In the modern race class we had Andy Duffin’s ever popular RX7 and its Link ECU livery showing off in all its glory.

We also had our drift regulars Cole Armstrong and Darren Kelly sporting Link G4+ Thunder ECU’s.

Matt Gaskin has been working hard to get his revitalized V8 back up and running. Now sporting a Nissan 5.6Lt quad cam V8, the 700hp targa car looked great storming up the drive.

All drivers (and riders) put on a fantastic show over the two days. Overall, the event win went to Alister McRae in his 1998 Vantage Motorsport Subaru WRX Impreza with a time of 49.15 seconds. Second was Sloan Cox’s EVO 8 just 0.4 of a second behind.

It was a pity for Andy Duffin in his Link ECU RX7 to miss the top ten by a slither of a second, however, a much better result than 2017’s altercation with a tree.

More photos from Leadfoot 2018 can be found on our Facebook page. Otherwise, we will see you there in Hahei next year!