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Disgruntled bar and restaurant owners, who spent thousands preparing for the V8s, have accused the Hamilton City Council of “over-hyping” the event.
About 50 members of the hospitality industry fired questions at Mayor Bob Simcock, chief executive Michael Redman and communications and marketing general manager Philip Burton during a V8 debrief yesterday.
Bar and restaurant owners said [...]

After a dominant performance during Friday’s qualifying sessions at the Hamilton 400, New Zealand V8 champion John McIntyre went on to win the first rain-shortened race.
Having set a qualifying time more than eight-tenths of a second faster than Angus Fogg, his closest rival - the biggest qualifying margin all season - McIntyre led from start [...]

Team Kiwi Racing has had a nightmare start to the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar meeting.
The team is now facing an engine swap, and will unlikely manage any laps before tomorrow’s qualifying session.
Exiting the team garage for the first of this afternoon’s four practices, the car stalled and would not start again. This lack of under-bonnet [...]

Bathurst winner Todd Kelly has elected to postpone the debut of a new race car following the successful test of his revamped Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden V8 at Winton in Australia last week.
Kelly was expected to introduce the latest Perkins-built VE Commodore, at this weekend’s inaugural street race in Hamilton.
But team owner Larry Perkins, disappointed [...]