By alley - Dec 9, 2014, 7:03 AM ET

Australian race director Blaikie dies in car accident

Australian motorsport administrator Jamey Blaikie has been killed in a road accident while on vacation in Fiji. A statement from Porsche Cars Australia confirmed that Blaikie was killed when his rental car crashed into a large truck.

Blaikie, the former Porsche Cars Australia motorsport manager, was instrumental in building the prestigious Porsche Carrera Cup in Australia.

"Jamey loved many of us here at Porsche and considered some of us as family. And he loved the Porsche brand through and through," Porsche Australia's director of public relations and motorsport, Paul Ellis, told

Speedcafe.com

. "Jamey was instrumental in the introduction of Carrera Cup to Australia and helping implement the Porsche Motorsport Pyramid in this country. He lived and breathed his Porsche Motorsport.

"To the Porsche Motorsport community Jamey was a friend, an ally and a confidant. Whether you were running at the back of the grid in a GT3 Cup Challenge race or shooting for the Carrera Cup Championship – Jamey always had time for you.

"From sleeting rain and mud at Mallala with three men and a dog on the spectator hill to glorious sunshine and huge crowds at the Gold Coast ... Blaikie was there in his Porsche gear, doing what he loved, with the people he loved and the sport he loved."