From mini stock cars to the real deal, Bryce Carter knows where it's at.

Bryce was the only Baypark car to compete in the Stock Car NZ Championships in Stratford last weekend where the Tauranga stock car racer qualified for tier three.

Stock car racing is a full-contact motorsport race.

“The aim is to win or to pick who wins,” says Bryce.

Bryce Carter in the full-contact motorsport race. Photo supplied.

As a full-contact sport, hitting and crashing into one another is not off-limits like in most other motorsports.

This makes it an incredibly entertaining and thrilling type of racing to watch.

The stock cars crash and sometimes even flip or stack on top of one another.

If you crash and are unable to get out, you’re out of the race.

Bryce Carter at the Stock car NZ Champs in Stratford over the weekend. Photo supplied.

“There’s 30 cars in a race and we’d probably lose 10 cars in a race,” he says.

Incredibly, Bryce went home with no damage to his stock car.

“We ended up around 76th out of 240 cars.”

Bryce qualified for tier three on the second night.

Bryce Carter (left) and friend James Bedford (right, inside stock car). Cookies Photography/ Photo supplied.

“The top 30 cars are in the first tier, the next top 30 are in the second tier and the next top 30 and the third tier.”

He says he started in mini stocks at age 13 and has been competing in stock car racing for around eight years now.

Bryce says he will be racing at Baypark next weekend on Saturday.

From there he is keen to do “whatever pops up”.

Bryce says his goal is to get into Superstock in the future.

The stock car is ready for action. Photo supplied.