Sabre Motorsport is a

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company owned by Dennis Martin that designs and constructs Formula First cars, runs a Motorsport New Zealand Licensed Entrant and Racing School, hires racing cars, and manages a New Zealand Formula First Team.

Dennis Martin

Dennis Martin has been involved with single-seater racing since the 1980s and Sabre Motorsport since 1999. Martin raced both Formula Vee's and Formula Ford's. His Formula Ford was a New Zealand made Valour Type 723. His Crew are responsible for putting a number of New Zealand drivers into international careers, including

Richie Stanaway Richard Stanaway (born 24 November 1991) is a racing car driver from New Zealand. He currently competes full-time in the Supercars Championship, driving the No. 62 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation), Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for PremiAir Racing. ...

Nick Cassidy Nicholas Robert Cassidy (born 19 August 1994) is a New Zealand racing driver, currently competing in Formula E for Jaguar TCS Racing. He previously raced for Envision Racing in the series for three seasons, becoming the runner-up during the ...

Brendon Hartley Brendon Morris Hartley (born 10 November 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota Motorsport GmbH, Toyota. Hartley competed in Formula One from to . In endurance racing (motorsport) ...

Shane van Gisbergen Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989), also known by his initials SVG, is a New Zealand professional auto racing, racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation)#ZL1, C ...

, and

Liam Lawson Liam Lawson (born 11 February 2002) is a New Zealand racing driver who competes in Formula One for Racing Bulls. Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Hastings and raised in Pukekohe, Lawson began competitive kart racing aged seven. Lawson—who is ...

. In December 2019 Martin was fined $1500 for assaulting a driver at Pukekohe. His driver Matthew McCutcheon had his licence endorsed for the incident by as Martin was considered part of his team.

Sabre Formula First

Sabre Motorsport manufacture a single seat Formula First race car. They sell the cars in kit set, rolling chassis, and ready to race forms.

SpeedSport Scholarship

In the year 2000 Sabre Motorsport joined forces with Speedsport Magazine to create the Speedsport Star of Tomorrow Scholarship. With the demise of SpeedSport Magazine in 2010 the Scholarship Trust have been seeking funds to keep the Scholarship alive via
crowd funding campaign
The winners of the Speedsport Scholarship have been: * 2001 Nic Jordan * 2002 Josh Hart * 2003 Mark Russ * 2004

* 2005 Andrew Waite * 2006 Alastair Wootten * 2007

* 2008

* 2009 Aaron Hodgson * 2010 Hayden Pedersen * 2011 Malcolm Finch * 2012 Aaron Marr * 2013 James Webb * 2014 Brooke Reeve * 2015

* 2016 Dylan Smith * 2017 Conrad Clark * 2018 Ronan Murphy * 2019 Matthew McCutcheon *2020 Dylan Grant *2021 Jensen Bate

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Sabre Motorsport

Formula First New Zealand
New Zealand auto racing teams Auto racing teams established in 1999 {{Autoracing-team-stub