Sabre Motorsport is a

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

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 Formula Vee (Formula Fau Vee in Brazil and Germany) or Formula Volkswagen is a popular open wheel, single-seater junior motor racing formula, with relatively low costs in comparison to Formula Ford. On the international stage, Niki Lauda, Eme ...

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 Richie Stanaway (born 24 November 1991) is a racing car driver from New Zealand. Career New Zealand Born in Tauranga, Stanaway was originally from a motocross background, before making the switch to speedway at the age of twelve. Following tha ...

Nick Cassidy Nick Cassidy (born 19 August 1994) is a New Zealand racing driver, currently competing in Formula E for Envision Racing, and in the World Endurance Championship and Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters with AF Corse. He has won the 2017 championship in ...

Brendon Hartley Brendon Hartley (born 10 November 1989) is a New Zealand professional racing driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Toyota Gazoo Racing. He won the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship, alongside his t ...

and

Shane van Gisbergen Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver in the Supercars Championship racing in the Number 97 Holden ZB Commodore car for Triple Eight Race Engineering. With three Supercars Championship wins ( 2016, 2021, ...

. 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

Liam Lawson Liam Lawson (born 11 February 2002) is a New Zealand motor racing driver set to compete in the 2023 Super Formula Championship with Team Mugen. Lawson, who is mentored by three-time New Zealand Grand Prix winner Ken Smith, previously competed f ...

* 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 {{NewZealand-sport-team-stub Auto racing teams established in 1999