About

Nick Slade first served his apprenticeship at Trevor Crowe Subaru in New Zealand and was actively involved in the race and rally preparation of a Subaru Legacy RS as well as an Oldsmobile powered Skoda V8 rally car. During this time his main duties were servicing vehicles as an apprentice for Subaru. Nick also provided support at multiple race weekends and rallies over several years including the Rothmans Rally of New Zealand and the Nissan Mobil 500 touring car series races with Possum Bourne as co-driver at these events.

After completing his apprenticeship at Trevor Crowe Subaru, Nick moved to the USA and worked at Slade Engines, rebuilding race engines including the Cosworth DFV (F1 engine) and DFX (Indy Car engine) and also at that time restored a Ferrari BB512LM and a Ford GT40 chassis #1018. Nick then moved onto looking after a large private collection (Tom Malloy collection) of vintage race cars, and during that time restored Ford GT40, MK 4 as well as an 86 March Indy Car (ex AJ Foyt), a Brabham Formula B, a Lola T70 coupe and a Lola 332 as well as prepping cars for race events throughout the season.

In 1999, Nick moved to Indianapolis to work at PacWest Racing in the CART Indy Car series, working with drivers Mark Blundell, Mauricio Gugelmin, Scott Dixon, and Oriol Servia followed by going on to work for Patrick Racing, KV Racing and Forsythe Racing with Multiple wins in Champ Car/Indy Car series starting with Scott Dixons first win at PacWest Racing.

In 2013, Nick worked in the American Le Mans Series with Muscle Milk Racing where they acheived five pole positions, eight wins and won the championship.

In 2014, Nick started Slade/AVS with Shadow Racing Team founder Don Nichols for the purpose of rebuilding the remaining cars in the Nichols collection. They have rebuilt Shadow, DN5, DN8, and DN9 F1 cars as well as a McLaren M10 B F5000 and Lotus 69 and several other cars.

Today, Nick is still involved in professional racing with fly-in support at the Indianapolis 500, (in particular, the last few years with Arrow McLaren) as well as Ferrari Challenge race weekends along with providing race weekend support for customers at Slade/AVS.