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With three hard-fought second places, Hamilton race driver Kayne Scott has moved into the lead of the BNT V8s Championship after the third of this season’s seven rounds in Christchurch this weekend.

LG Motorsport driver Angus Fogg has taken out race one of the BNTV8s opening race at Powerbuilt Tools Raceway at Ruapuna Park Christchurch, New Zealand.

Seasoned driver Craig Baird won two of the three races in the opening round at Pukekohe this weekend to hit the front in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge.

A spectacular seven-car pile up immediately after the start of race two for the NZV8s occurred at the entrance to turn one, with the field jockeying for position after the rolling start.

Paul Manuell made it a start-to-finish win in the Orix Holden in the first of three races this weekend in the BNT V8s Championship.

After an action-packed opening round of the 2008-09 BNT V8s Championship in Taupo early in October, the potentially 30-strong field of New Zealand V8s heads to Pukekohe Park for round two of their seven round motor racing championship with Hamilton’s Kayne Scott leading the championship contenders.

On Friday James Moffat (Bob Jane T-Marts/Trueline) was in hospital, today he was on cloud nine after he won Carrera Cup Australia’s final race of the year at the Nikon Indy 300 Sunday.

Dean Fiore (Complispace/Advance Energy) might have won the first Carrera Cup Australia race at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 today but it was Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) who created history at the famous circuit.
Baird finished second behind a masterful Fiore performance in wet and slippery conditions, clinching the 2008 Carrera Cup Australia Championship.
Baird is now [...]

Former champion Kayne Scott got the jump on his rivals, winning the opening race of the 2008/09 New Zealand V8s series at Taupo Motorsport Park today.
Scott and defending champion John McIntyre made it an all-Ford front row after qualifying fastest earlier this morning.
However, McIntyre found himself shunted out of the race at the second corner [...]

Days after Scott Dixon’s grand Indy500 triumph, the latest Kiwi go-kart prodigy was making the big move to follow in his superstar tracks.
Thirteen-year-old Nick Cassidy, from Whenuapai, secured the licence this week enabling him to compete in the four-race Formula First winter series at Manfeild.
The Cassidy story is of a youngster who, after being initially [...]

Sometimes it all comes down to one decision.
When Aaron Caratti’s (Parklands on Bertram) team decided to change from wet tyres to slicks in the last few minutes of qualifying this morning at Barbagallo Raceway he thought they were crazy.
Heavy showers had proceeded the session and with a wet track Caratti wasn’t too keen on heading [...]